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Working with the Auto Lighting Optimizer

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Working with the Auto Lighting Optimizer

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Your eye has an incredible ability to see in low light. This means that you can very often see details and shadow areas with your naked eye, while your camera will render those areas as black, and featureless. The auto lighting optimizer applies post-processing to your image in camera to brighten shadow areas in your image. Note that it doesn't just brighten the blacks in your image; it actually figures out where the shadowy areas are in your scene, and it brightens those, without washing out all of the blacks in your picture. The auto lighting optimizer controls are located in the second page of the shooting menu. They are right here; Auto Lighting Optimizer. I can see that I'm currently set to a middle setting; what Canon calls Standard. I've basically just got three settings: Low, Standard, and High, and Off. I can also tell it to Disable the Auto Lighting Optimizer during manual exposure. By default, Auto Lighting Optimizer is turned on for program, shutter priority, and aperture…

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