LX3 - Intelligent exposure

[Johan112]

Do you use the intelligent exposure? I've been using it in 'normal' most times so far when I'm using aperature priority, but I tried now to take some pictures with and without and can't see any difference.

 

[Rossuziers]

Do you use the intelligent exposure? I've been using it in 'normal'
most times so far when I'm using aperature priority, but I tried now
to take some pictures with and without and can't see any difference.

It really doesn't matter whether you use it in 'A' as you say you do or 'P' or 'S' or a scene mode... It's useful in all modes & really depends more on the lighting of a given scene.

It's for use in high contrast/dynamic range taxing situations, such as heavily back-lit situation or indoors with bright windows etc & scenes consisting of a lot of real bright to deep shadow.... It's function being to lessen blown hi-lights & to lighten shadows, in an effort to reveal better balance like our eyes see things...

If it's a well balanced, sun at your back, easy scene, with minimal extreme bright & dark areas.. It won't be noticeable...

I pretty much have mine set to minimum but will up it to hi if I get real extreme lighting variations in a given scene.

On high it can tend to make some things look pastie such as when shooting in all shadow that's indirectly lit well enough..

On hi, if you watch the LCD as you slowly pan in & out from dark & light, you can actually see a sort of texture, for lack of a better word, roll across the screen like a wave of lower contrast... It's weird lookin' & hard to explain...

Someone, months ago posted good examples that showed it's benefit well... I'm glad to have it at my disposal....
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[boyzo]

useful for quick grab shots
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[win39]

It works better than any automatic exposure system I have used. You give up raw file format though. jpeg only.

 

[Rossuziers]

It works better than any automatic exposure system I have used. You
give up raw file format though. jpeg only.

Are you sure you're not confusing intelligent exposure with intelligent auto mode... They're two different attributes....
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[Johan112]

Now I tried it a bit more and looking in the manual too. It actually seems to be really good, I think I will keep it in the middle(normal) setting.

On hi, if you watch the LCD as you slowly pan in & out from dark &
light, you can actually see a sort of texture, for lack of a better
word, roll across the screen like a wave of lower contrast... It's
weird lookin' & hard to explain...

Yes now I've seen it. It looks really strange, like it is redrawing the picture(LCD). I thought before that it was used all the time(then I hade it turned on) but it seems to have to be a really big difference in light for it to be used. You can see then it's in use too when its symbol turns yellow for a while.

 

[Rossuziers]

when its symbol turns yellow for a while.

Your the 2nd person to mention that & even though i've had some level of I-Exposure enabled for the past several months. I still haven't seen the icon turn yellow but then again, I often have all the display info turned off....

FWIW, the Iso is also a giveaway that it was in use... If you take a shot with the ISo locked @ 80, if the I-Exposure kicks in, it'll be 125iso in the exif even though you had it locked @ 80.
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[Johan112]

Your the 2nd person to mention that & even though i've had some level
of I-Exposure enabled for the past several months. I still haven't
seen the icon turn yellow but then again, I often have all the
display info turned off....

If I point the camera half on the computer screen and halv outside it start for me every time, turns yellow and redraws the LCD like you described.

FWIW, the Iso is also a giveaway that it was in use... If you take a
shot with the ISo locked @ 80, if the I-Exposure kicks in, it'll be
125iso in the exif even though you had it locked @ 80.

Aha interesting. I've seen the 125 ISO sometimes but didn't understood why that happended. I wonder if it says somewhere in the exif data that it's been used too?

Not important, but what does 'FWIW' mean?

 

[Rossuziers]

Aha interesting. I've seen the 125 ISO sometimes but didn't
understood why that happended. I wonder if it says somewhere in the
exif data that it's been used too?

Maybe PhotoME exif reader will show if it is in exif.. I've not checked but that Exif reader covers just about everything in the exif

Not important, but what does 'FWIW' mean?

For What It's Worth
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[Eden Yip]

rite?

 

[Johan112]

Not important, but what does 'FWIW' mean?

For What It's Worth

Thanks

While I'm asking for words, I finally think I understood that 'nt' means an empty post(correct me if I'm wrong) but does it stand for something?

 

[RussC]

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[Rossuziers]

rite?

Probably a little of that but it's also specific area selective iso boosting in the shadows too, if I read Panny's definition of it correctly... They describe it in detail somewhere on the Panny site...
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[Johan112]

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Thanks Russ. It was that easy! Now I feel stupid