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Panasonic G7 Shading Compensation

Started Dec 27, 2019 | Questions thread
OP Brisn5757 Veteran Member • Posts: 4,540
Re: Panasonic G7 Shading Compensation

Gnine wrote:

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.

Thanks Gnine.

You explained it a lot better than the camera's manual.

Yes my G7 camera does have a i.Dynamic mode with the same settings as in your text.
I might try this on a bright sunny day. I'm not certain the best setting, maybe 'auto' then I can leave it up the the camera to make the best adjustment.
I remember trying this option when experimenting with the camera but I could see very little change in the photo.

Brian

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