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Images appear overexposed

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wauul New Member • Posts: 1
Images appear overexposed

Hello, I've noticed that my Lumix GX7 displays the images too overexposed, even the histogram does that. but when I take the shot the image appear underexposed. please help

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Keit ll Veteran Member • Posts: 5,172
Re: Images appear overexposed
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Have you boosted the screen lightness?

alcelc
alcelc Forum Pro • Posts: 19,003
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Keit ll wrote:

Have you boosted the screen lightness?

To OP: mess around the setting of evf/LCD should be under extra caution...

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Keit ll Veteran Member • Posts: 5,172
Re: Images appear overexposed

If you are willing to accept the loss of any personal preference settings then you might try a camera reset?

Adrian Harris
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Re: Images appear overexposed

You may have live view boost (or whatever Panasonic call it) switched on.

I got caught out by that many years ago.

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tintifax Senior Member • Posts: 1,057
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if the histogramm is ok and the picture on the display is shown overexposed than it is a problem of the display, maybe adjusted to bright ?????

If the histogramm shows also an overexposed picture (what I accept because you wrote "even the histogramm does that") than the camera really overexpose. That could have the following reasons:

- something is defective?

- you have switched to spot-meetering and everything around is not as bright as the center

- you have changed the settings, something in the meetering-area (I don't know the Pana-menue)

- or you have switched the exposure-compensation to +2 or more....

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Nathaniel Alpert Forum Member • Posts: 87
Re: Images appear overexposed

wauul wrote:

Hello, I've noticed that my Lumix GX7 displays the images too overexposed, even the histogram does that. but when I take the shot the image appear underexposed. please help

Let's work with the histogram. When you see the histogram it shows a representation of the brightness of the image voxels as they were exposed in the camera's jpg image. We often use this exposure as a way to approximate the exposure for raw images. With a proper exposure you will have brightness values all the way over to the far righthand side of the histogram. If the exposure is too high, brightnesses will be clumped on the farthest right of the histogram. If the exposure is too low, there will be a gap between the highest image brightnesses and the far righthand side of the histogram. Neither of these outcomes is desirable; both lead to reduced image quality.

The key point for your question is that the histogram is independent of the brightnesses you see through the viewfinder or the rear display. It is not a good idea to rely on the EVS to set the exposure.  So, if you are a jpg-shooter, you want to adjust the exposure using shutter speed and aperture till the image brightnesses closely approach the far righthand side of the histogram. Make some test exposures and import the resulting images into image software that can compute and display a post exposure histogram. This should approximate what you saw on your camera's histogram and it will allow you to verify that you have obtained proper exposure. Disregard the brightness of your image display; the post exposure histogram is the truth.

If you are not satisfied with the on-screen display of your test images, your display must be adjusted. That is a whole 'nuther topic.

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