noun

• 1A device that sets the exposure automatically on a camera or other piece of equipment.

  ‘Some auto-exposure cameras make this compensation automatically; on others you have to do it manually.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘See, I bought my current camera back in 1993 or so, and although it's a decent camera, I'm not happy with its auto-exposures.’

  1. 1.1The facility to set exposure automatically.
     ‘a camcorder with autoexposure’
     More example sentences

     • ‘Photographs were taken using a camera with auto-exposure facility.’
     • ‘Getting correct exposure with most simple auto-exposure cameras is easy: press the shutter button and the camera does the rest.’
     • ‘There's no autofocus, no auto-exposure, no auto-film-winding, no auto-nothing.’
     • ‘This display shows that the camera is in auto-exposure mode and is shooting at 1/60 second!’