Without any aids it is hard to get your exposure exact and you get increased shadow noise or clipped highlights because of that. The Problem: If you have a high contrast scene you want to expose it so that the highlights are close to clipping but not actually clipped. Use the zebra function for perfect exposure Don’t forget to turn it off though or it is easy to unintentionally underexpose your images. Your raw file won’t be affected by the setting. The solution: The DRO function is meant to lift the shadows in your jpg images which is just what you need: Use DRO +5 and the shadows of your preview image will be pushed by about 3 stops so you can see into the shadows now. While you are focussing, the foreground subject will be likely too dark to focus. Another situation where this problem arises is when you are using flash to light a foreground subject, but there’s bright natural light in the background. This is no problem because you can brighten your image a lot in post but it makes focusing and composition hard. The problem: If you have a high contrast scene and expose it for the highlights you often have to use a negative exposure compensation and end up with a very dark preview image. Thanks to the DRO function I could focus none the less. To save the highlights I had to underexpose this image a lot.
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