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Panasonic G7 Shading Compensation

Started Dec 27, 2019 | Questions thread
Gnine Senior Member • Posts: 4,108
Re: Panasonic G7 Shading Compensation
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Okay, I'll correct you. At larger aperture settings, the light entering your lens does not illuminate the sensor in your camera evenly. It's a little bit darker out near the corners of the sensor. What shading compensation does, is automatically brighten up the outer corners/edges of the photo, giving a more even & consistent brightness over the whole of the image. Hope that's easy to understand.

I'm not sure if the G7 has the feature, but what you're looking for to lighten up the darker areas/shadows in your image, is called iDynamic. It has a few different levels of strength -for want of a better description. Low, standard, high & auto. Low adds just a little bit of brightness to the shadowed areas, standard a little more, & so on.

Edit -there's also another setting you can use to tweak highlights & shadows in camera. It's curiously called highlight shadow You'll find that in the record menu, close to the iDynamic tab. You can create & save your own custom highlight & shadow curves. You can both brighten or darken the highlights, independent of the shadows, & vice versa.

Just a note -both these settings only apply to camera generated jpegs. You can see the effects when shooting in raw, but are only applied to the jpegs.

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