I'm sure this is old news for experienced Kodak DCS shooters, but I've never heard about it: Digital Exposure Correction.
"Digital Exposure Correction was a way to ensure good images when you couldn't verify them on a screen or look at a histogram. As long as your exposure was in-bounds, you would get something usable. This only became better with time. Nikon was largely spared this, because its first production DSLR (the D1) followed Kodak's by nine years. By that point, the color LCD was a much more viable technology, and there was no need to use software intelligence to fix exposures. Kodak kept on with it, and even to this day, you can shoot with a DCS 760 or a DCS 14n and spend very little time checking histograms."
http://www.dantestella.com/technical/d2x.html
Interesting stuff.
Jarle