Talk:Exposure compensation

I've cleaned the article up a bit, but it needs a better statement about the range of digital sensors, supported, of course, by a verifiable source. JeffConrad 07:31, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

So what does it *do*?
For the first time, while playing with my new DSLR last night, I realised that "exposure compensation" is simply the camera adjusting other factors to give greater exposure. For example, if in "aperture priority" mode, you increase the "exposure compensation" it will actually probably increase the ISO rating and/or shutter speed. If my understanding is correct, then the explanation in this article could be improved a lot, by making it more concrete: "Increasing the exposure compensation tells the camera to use a wider aperture, slower shutter speed, or higher ISO rating, or some combination of the above." But since I'm a camera newbie, I'm not game to write it myself :) Stevage 02:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I've added a brief description of how the exposure compensation feature is usually implemented; I've gone no further because this article is about exposure compensation and not about exposure and how that is affected by camera settings. In theory, a camera also could vary ISO speed, but negative compensation could be a problem if the camera were already set to a low speed such as ISO 100. Bear in mind that the concept of what exposure compensation is doing is more important than how it is effected. JeffConrad 07:48, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Exposure compensation disambig
I had always equated "exposure compensation" with "exposure meter compensation", so when it came up (Talk:Film_speed) as a term used to describe push/pull/gain processing, it really threw me. To combine a light-metering technique and darkroom processing technique under one label seems unnecessarily confusing; perhaps some kind of disambiguation might be helpful? The exposure compensation article currently covers meter-compensation quite well, but only makes the barest (IMO improvable) reference to "non-standard processing".

After some arduous cogitation, I'm thinking that:
 * Technically, push-processing compensates for a sub-optimally exposed film by manipulating the image density, not the (photometric) exposure, so "exposure compensation" is definitely more appropriate than, say, "exposure correction"?
 * Where exposure meter compensation is aimed at achieving the "correct" exposure for the subject, it might be more helpful to refer to this type of adjustment as "exposure correction"?

Does that make sense to anyone else ? I'm not proposing this version as an edit, just raising the point for discussion here ... --Redbobblehat (talk) 14:49, 23 February 2009 (UTC)


 * No, it doesn't; I don't understand your confusion. Dicklyon (talk) 06:23, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Still not clear
The meaning of '+' and '-' is still not clear. I take a photo on a tripod, then I take another with +3 compensation. Is the second photograph paler or darker than the first?

86.187.173.216 (talk) 23:41, 8 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Try it and see. I'm pretty sure the +3 compensated one should be brighter/paler. Dicklyon (talk) 23:56, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

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