Why Use The Histogram In Your Digital Camera?

Why use the histogram in your digital camera? Because it shows you the correct information about whether or not your photos are exposed correctly.

Your eyes lie to you! Your camera’s lcd screen lies to you as well!

The only way for you to see if your images are correctly exposed with no blown highlights or crushed shadows is to look at the histogram. Learn to use it.

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If you don’t need to know how to use the histogram on a Nikon camera because you don't have one, please stick around as histograms are the same across all digital cameras and you will learn how to use and read the one in your camera.

A histogram is a digital representation of the brightness values in any particular image. It’s a simple graph. You did some kind of work with graphs in school, didn’t you? So it should be easy for you to understand your histogram. Assuming you understood graphs….in school?!

But why on Earth would you want to use a Histogram in the first place? I mean, you can take a photo, check the LCD screen, and see if it’s exposed properly or not, can’t you? Of course, you can.

There are two problems with that, however. Firstly, you can’t trust your eyes and secondly, you can’t trust the LCD screen either.

Your eyes don’t know if your shot is exposed properly and the LCD screen doesn’t either. So don’t trust them.

Depending on the lighting in the area where you are looking at your LCD screen, or the brightness setting you have your LCD screen set to, your images can look darker or brighter than they actually are.

The histogram is your new best friend because it will tell you accurately if your pictures are exposed correctly.

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