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Shooting at night

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#1 weever22
Hey guys! Quick question!

To preface, I'm using the holy grail approach of manually adjusting exposure to 0EV everytime it reaches -1EV (As Gunther suggests).

My question is, how do you know when to adjust exposure when it's dark out, and you want to set the exposure below the -2EV cap that it shows on the display? It seems hard to monitor it if it drops past the -EV as you can't see how many stops more it's underexposed.

Do you instead change exposure from the histogram? Or is there a way to change these settings that I am not aware of?

Weston
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#2 Gunther
Yes I use the histogram! It's more reliable, bacause like you said the metering stops working when it gets dark.
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#3 weever22
Great Gunthar. Thanks a lot buddy.

Any tips on using the histogram? I know roughly how to read it, but any added info would be awesome.

Weston
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#4 Gunther
If it's cut on the right side you'l get blown highlights, if it's cut left you have a lot of shadows. You should avoid blown highlights... Normally wenn going into sunset, I wait until the right histogtam part is 1/3 from the right side, then adjust +1EV.
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