Bug report

Bug summary
Contour plots don't interact nicely withmatplotlib.colors.LogNorm.
Likely related to#19748

Code for reproduction

importmatplotlib.pyplotaspltfrommatplotlib.colorsimportLogNormimportnumpyasnp# BUG: setting levels as a scalar has no effect and no warning or error is printedfig,ax=plt.subplots()im=ax.contourf(x,y,data,norm=LogNorm(),levels=4)fig.colorbar(im,ax=ax)plt.show()

# kinda buggy too: setting levels as an array does have some of the desired effects# but ticks and ticklabels are incorrectfig,ax=plt.subplots()levels=np.logspace(np.log10(data.min()),np.log10(data.max()),5)im=ax.contourf(x,y,data,norm=LogNorm(),levels=levels)fig.colorbar(im,ax=ax)plt.show()

Expected outcome

The experience should be comparable with what happens when the norm isn't specified: thelevels kwarg should be usable in both cases.
I note that the output from the first snippet is consistent with the case where neitherlevels ornorm are specified, and is correct in that case, so it's definetely notcompletely broken and I hope the fix is somewhat straightforward.

I'm happy to take a look at the source and see if I can come up with an easy patch, but I'm not sure when I'll have time to dive in there myself. Any piece advice from maintainers or contributors is more than welcome !

Matplotlib version

• Operating system: MacOS
• Matplotlib version (import matplotlib; print(matplotlib.__version__)): 3.4.1
• Matplotlib backend (print(matplotlib.get_backend())):module://ipykernel.pylab.backend_inline
• Python version: 3.9.1
• Jupyter version (if applicable): NA
• Other libraries:

I installed matplotlib using pip.