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Samsung NX20 Camera default setting

Started Jul 20, 2014 | Discussions thread
ttbek Veteran Member • Posts: 4,869
Re: Samsung NX20 Camera default setting

Depends mainly on the metering (unless you're referring only to the jpeg).  The Smart mode uses the matrix metering if I'm not mistaken, so I think 18% grey, if things are too extreme then you will indeed have blown highlights/overexposure occurring.  I don't think this is exactly how the matrix metering works in this camera though, it's a bit more complicated.  The camera attempts to find a subject for focus and within the identified area, those pieces of the matrix are aimed at 18% grey more heavily.  Essentially it's a weighted grid of areas where some number of them will be 18% grey, this could of course cause less important areas to be over or under exposed.  I'm not really sure what this has to do with default settings at all, unless you're referring to the Smart+ dynamic range option (somewhere in between a normal shot and HDR, the goal being to protect highlights from blowing out) rather than the Smart mode on the main mode dial.

Anyway... at least I think the question is really about matrix metering and that I have hopefully addressed the basics of it above.  It's a topic that warrants more explanation, but I'm too tired to do that right now... or talk about the other metering modes.  The above is just for general matrix metering, the NX20 may have it's own particularities and behaviors when it comes to all of that.

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