Under/overexposure indicator

[OlliJarmo]

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I recall that my Q used to show over/underexposure by displaying a line of dots in the upper part of the horizontal bar at the bottom of the display. Now, after several camera resets this display is dead. Is there a hidden setting somewhere which I have missed ?

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[GRBrown]

The over/underexposure indication is available in the manual setting for exposure, according to page 185 of the owner's manual. What the OP referred to as dots are called tick marks in explaining the setting.

[OlliJarmo]

I probably remember incorrectly. I miss the over/underexposure tick marks when I use aperture priority with shutter speed set to A and ISO set to AUTO. Then light situations may occur where the max ISO is reached simultaneously with the lowest allowed shutter speed. Then there is nothing in the camera which indicates underexposure. 

[Widder]

That's the way it is, hopefully a future firmware update will fix it, if any. Further more the EVF doesn't indicate overexposure either.

Happens especially when the aperture is set to 1.7 and shutter to A . It just shows 1/16000 and still a clear picture in the EVF...

[jmschuh]

Then there is nothing in the camera which indicates underexposure.

Correct. The display gets darker, but this can only be seen after a lot of underexposure.

[jmschuh]

Further more the EVF doesn't indicate overexposure either.

That's not right. In the display settings, you can activate clipping so that all overexposed areas are displayed. The clipping indicator marks bright areas in a picture without detail, meaning that they would be displayed this way (when taking the picture) or were displayed this way (when reviewing). These areas will blink in black.

This way the clipping indicator makes it possible to easily and precisely check and possibly even adjust the exposure setting.

 

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