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will stop showing you the changes once you get past +/- 3 stops) in still
image mode and as much as +/- 2 stops in Movie mode.
But don’t forget to reset this feature back to +/- 0 when you’re finished –
the camera remembers your exposure compensation setting even when you
turn the camera off.

Figure 5-29: An example of where exposure compensation comes in handy.
Automatic exposure works great for average images, but if your image isn’t
average (like in a dark clearing, left image) the camera is likely to over-expose the
picture in its quest to render the scene as “average”. You can override the
camera’s recommendation and use Exposure Compensation to make it darker or
lighter (in this case a setting of “-1” made it one stop darker, closer to the way it
actually looked). (I also changed the color balance to Daylight to make it look the
way my eyes saw it.) Good thing you have an LCD screen for instant feedback!