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It’s easy to set exposure by eye. We’ve all done it. The problem is that the electronic viewfinder or LCD screen on your camera does not show a 100% accurate representation of what the sensor is ...

Histograms are often useful tools for analyzing digital data. To get reliable results from a histogram, though, you must collect large amounts of data, often with 100,000 to 1 million points. If you ...

How to use the histogram displays in your camera to improve your photos. All digital cameras are able to display a histogram on their LCD monitors and/or in their electronic viewfinders. It’s one of ...

How histograms can help you control key factors that affect exposure levels. Correct exposures are the first step towards usable image files and the histogram displays provided in most digital cameras ...

Whether you've got a DSLR or you've turned your point-and-shoot into a super camera, those fancy features are useless if you don't understand them. Want to capture a perfectly exposed picture?

The simplest histogram displays a two-dimensional visualization of a single variable. For example, the following histogram shows the frequency for the single variable Age, specified for the X axis.

Last week’s post, “A Histogram is NOT a Bar Chart ”, explained that bar charts were used for comparing categorical variables and that histograms were used to show the distributions of binned ...

The data in a histogram are usually divided into bins that define the values ranges represented by each bar in the histogram. For example, if the data contain a range of ages from 1 to 80, and the ...