Dynamic range is the camera sensor’s ability to capture detail in very bright and very dark parts of a scene. Cameras (or sensors) with a low dynamic range record dark shadows as a solid black or bright highlights as a featureless white. In the days of film, this was known as a film’s ‘exposure latitude’. […]
D-Lighting
Exposure adjustment tool offered in some Nikon software for brightening the darkest parts of a picture without altering the rest. It's a less advanced version of the Active D-Lighting system built into Nikon cameras. Regular D-Lighting just brightens the shadows – it's too late to adjust the exposure at the software stage.