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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 136122" data-attributes="member: 13090">Couple things that might help... First, there is a monitor display adjustment in your menu, &quot;Monitor Brightness&quot; I think it's labeled. My 5100 needed a minor tweak so the LCD would more closely match the exposure I was getting, so trying that adjustment should probably be Step 1. This was a pretty minor tweak for me, though, and if the what the LCD is showing you vs. the actual exposure is WAY out of line then I think you may have a deeper problem because your assumption is correct: the LCD should be giving you a pretty accurate idea of how your shot is going to turn out.&nbsp;The other thing you might want to consider is using the histogram. If you don't know how to read histograms you can Google it and have the basic concepts down well enough with probably ten minutes spent reading about them. They ain't rocket science and they're not something to live and die by, but they are very good tool to have in the camera bag between your ears.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 136122, member: 13090"] Couple things that might help... First, there is a monitor display adjustment in your menu, "Monitor Brightness" I think it's labeled. My 5100 needed a minor tweak so the LCD would more closely match the exposure I was getting, so trying that adjustment should probably be Step 1. This was a pretty minor tweak for me, though, and if the what the LCD is showing you vs. the actual exposure is WAY out of line then I think you may have a deeper problem because your assumption is correct: the LCD should be giving you a pretty accurate idea of how your shot is going to turn out. The other thing you might want to consider is using the histogram. If you don't know how to read histograms you can Google it and have the basic concepts down well enough with probably ten minutes spent reading about them. They ain't rocket science and they're not something to live and die by, but they are very good tool to have in the camera bag between your ears. [/QUOTE]

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