Rork, after many years of shooting landscapes and dealing with various lighting conditions, I'm very familiar with setting exposures for particular parts of a scene etc. That's not my issue. I was just trying to figure out what the exposure value meant in terms of digital equipment, as it didn't seem to correlate to anything in particular. I can set the auto bracket function in increments ranging from -0.3 to +2.0, so there's a wide latitude there. At least now I can make a more informed judgement of how much to set the bracketing function to, after I've taken some exposure readings. You may have misunderstood my post. I am not looking for high contrast photos, but trying to pack as much detail as possible into what can be high contrast scenes at times. I've been doing digital photography only since the beginning of the year and am still working out the finer points of processing the images to get better and better results. It sure is a lot of fun though.