Histogram Photography Tutorial - Using Olympus Episode 1

Thanks Peter for helpful and easy to understand tutorial.

Great video, thank you. Where do I find link to setting up histogram on E-M5III? couldnt see the link for set up to this model. Hope you can help.

Thanks Peter for your great vids. After a problem with overexposed "greens" in a landscape photo, I did some research. Individual channels can blow out (reds in flowers are another example) in spite of the average luminance and highlight/shadow warnings appearing OK. Some bloggers dismiss a single average luminance histogram as useless, but I'm a noob and won't go that far. Just wanted to warn readers to use the histogram exposure compensation carefully.
Maybe a future update will bring individual channel histograms to my M5 MIII.

Hi I appreciate about this video for histogram I have. a question do you have any video on Leica Q2 camara? for Histogram.I just bought a Leica Q2 and want to take pictures on manual mode. Iso, apertures, shooter speed, and histogram are the features for good photo.Thank you Orietta De La Villa

Does the histogram take into account the x2 teleconverter.? I am finding my shots are much darker. Many thx for all yr help.

Peter, looked at again after you kindly provided the link. As said a few months'' ago, I thought you went too quickly when explaining how to set the histogram up in the display.
However, I have found, with my Pen F, that depressing the OK button can present an LCD or EVF view showing the histogram. Thanks for the assistance and am about to watch the balance of your videos.

bravo big thenks....

I found this very helpful Peter. I have recently upgraded from em5 mkii to em1 mkii, rather like going from a tiger moth biplane to a F22 jet,and your video is much easier than the index to the “comprehensive” book I have.

Very, very helpful

Helpful thanks, but just thought you went too quickly- I am new to the Olympus brand.

Great video all information well explained with efficiency and clarity. All good thank you.

I highly recommend subscribing to Peter's channel. I've subscribed to a few photography channels. All to often to listen to good advice but they're vague on the process of execution. It's almost like they don't want to give anything away. Peter here has been exceedingly helpful, offering specific techniques, like this post, on how to improve your game. If you own a Olympus? It's a no brainer.

Very easy to understand, thank you!

Peter ..... if you expose maximum to the right ...the RAW files looks overexposed ... how can you pull the overexposure down of the RAW file .
How do you determine how much you have to pull it down and what software do you use for that and which regulators ...can you make a video of that please .
Kind regards Henk

One thing I rarely see mentioned is that the histogram of at least the OMDs is pretty crap. In well-lit scenes, it works as expected, but if the scene is not well lit, it has severe limitations. You can easily try this if you try to overexpose a scene that is not as well lit as a day scene, at home when the lighting is a bit low for example. No matter how ridiculously high ISO or long shutter time you will use, the live view/EVF will not indicate overexpose. Once you take the shot you will see blown highlights, and after a while you get the feeling for this limitation, you start to notice the point where any increases in exposure just doesn't change the histogram any more, then you are getting close to the limit, but you can often expose almost a full stop more before you actually blow highlights.
I still enjoy my E-M1 II, but for low light ETTR, you just can't trust it. For normal low light photography, it is not much of an issue, but attempts at controlled overexposure tend to end up as try and error. Peter, have you found any workarounds for this?

Thank you så much Peter! Genius small info. Keep on the good work and vise tips.
Greetings from a happy Oly user from Denmark

Very good info!

Have you found using histogram usefull?