2 Nailing the Right Exposure

The Nikon Z8 and Z9 have an exceptional amount of intelligence when it comes to calculating the correct exposure for a wide variety of scenes. Even so, you are smarter—and more creative.

The more you shoot, the more ways you’ll discover how to improve on your camera’s picture-taking decisions and, even when to ignore them when you want to create a particular look or effect. For example, when you shoot with the main light source behind the subject, you end up with backlighting, which can result in an overexposed background and/or an underexposed subject. The exposure system recognizes backlit situations nicely, and, in most cases, can properly base exposure on the main subject using the default Matrix metering ...

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