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6.8 EXPOSURE SET. GUIDE

Menu Position MENU  2  Exposure Set. Guide

What it Does Provides a nice “moving ribbon” visual when you’re changing
exposure settings (but it block the Histogram!)

Recommended Setting Off

This was a nice UI idea.
Whenever you change either the
f/stop or shutter speed in most
DISPlay modes, you’ll get this
nice little animation showing
you how the f/stop and shutter
speed are both changing but in
opposite directions, as shown in
Figure 6-10. Cute, but there are
MANY occasions when I’m
changing these settings and I

Figure 6-10: The Exposure Setting guide look at the live histogram in the
provides a nice UI but hides the histogram lower-right-hand corner at the
and so it’s not useful to me. same time.
I keep it off because the ribbon
blocks the live histogram when you’re adjusting settings in manual
exposure mode. (Oops!)
This setting is not available when DISP is set to “Graphic Display” or “For
Viewfinder”.