Thought on a full screen histogram option

[Sporgon]

My main use of the rear LCD display is to view the exposure via the histogram. As many have found, judging the exposure from the picture can be very misleading, but 'blinkies' can be helpful. However the histogram is always very small, and subtleties regarding small amounts of data at either extreme end can be inconvenient if not nigh on impossible to see.

I'd like an option on the higher end camera where you can select the whole, or virtually the whole of the rear LCD to display a large histogram - so I can see it properly. With this enabled you could then toggle to the picture via the 'info' button or what ever. The extremes of the histogram could blink if the data is beyond the sensor.

This would be very useful to me. Anyone have thoughts on this facility ?

 

[Loswr]

Marsu42 will be along any minute to tell us the folks at ML could implement this if they wanted.

Personally, I like seeing the blinkies on the image - knowing if there are blown highlights is only part of the story, knowing where they are in the image tells me whether I am willing to let them remain blown or I need to adjust exposure and reshoot.

 

[ajfotofilmagem]

Maybe not the histogram alone, but the full-screen image with histogram superimposed on the lower half of the screen. If the histogram flashes in the clipped details, and after a few seconds, it is just the picture. I'd like that.

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

I agree that larger is easier to see. Canon likely considers the small one as enough. Most users, but certainly not all who use the histogram are RAW shooters, and using RAW lets you expose a bit more to the right beyond the point where the blinking starts.

 

[Sporgon]

knowing if there are blown highlights is only part of the story, knowing where they are in the image tells me whether I am willing to let them remain blown or I need to adjust exposure and reshoot.

Fair point, knowing when to allow some blown highlights can be an important part of optimising exposure.

 

[Hobby Shooter]

My main use of the rear LCD display is to view the exposure via the histogram. As many have found, judging the exposure from the picture can be very misleading, but 'blinkies' can be helpful. However the histogram is always very small, and subtleties regarding small amounts of data at either extreme end can be inconvenient if not nigh on impossible to see.

I'd like an option on the higher end camera where you can select the whole, or virtually the whole of the rear LCD to display a large histogram - so I can see it properly. With this enabled you could then toggle to the picture via the 'info' button or what ever. The extremes of the histogram could blink if the data is beyond the sensor.

This would be very useful to me. Anyone have thoughts on this facility ?

Makes sense, anything that helps on fhe fly is good. I've been too close to screw up a couple of times doing outdoor portrait sessions because I didn't pay enough attention. With this highlighted, I think I would have discovered it earlier.