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R5 Histogram question

Bentley9
Apprentice

I just bought the R5 and I have question about the histogram.  I'm also new to Canon in general so this is probably a me problem.  In both the view finder and the display screen the histogram has 5 sections but only the left three are registering any information.  The two on the right are grayed and do not display any information.  Is this a setting I'm missing?  Thanks for your input.

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jrhoffman75
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https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/index?page=content&id=ART178176
John Hoffman
Conway, NH

1D X Mark III, Many lenses, Pixma PRO-100, Pixma TR8620a, LR Classic

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rs-eos
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Are your images very dark? The right-hand portion of a histogram would only be filled if there are brighter areas in the image.

 

Do you have an example image along with its histogram?

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Ricky

EOS 5D IV, EF 50mm f/1.2L, EF 135mm f/2L, 600EX-RT (x6), ST-E3-RT
EOS C70, RF 24-70 f/2.8L IS, EF-EOS R 0.71x

I accidentally found the answer.  I'm still not sure if it should behave this way but when I disabled the HDR PQ setting the histogram behaved the way i expected.  I found this because I was testing the electronic shutter and that isn't available with the HDR PQ enabled.  I appreciate the response I would be curious if yours behaves in the same way.

jrhoffman75
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https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/index?page=content&id=ART178176
John Hoffman
Conway, NH

1D X Mark III, Many lenses, Pixma PRO-100, Pixma TR8620a, LR Classic
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