HP 730 - Manual (Page 36)

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In difficult lighting conditions, you can use the EV (Exposure
Value) Compensation setting to override the automatic
exposure setting that the camera makes.
EV Compensation is useful in backlit scenes involving a person,
or in scenes that contain many light objects {like a white house
in the snow) or many dark objects (like a black cat on a dark
background). Scenes containing many light objects or many
dark objects could turn out gray without the use of EV
Compensation. For a scene with many light objects, increase
the EV Compensation to a positive number to produce a
brighter result. For a scene with many dark objects, decrease
the EV Compensation to darken the scene to be closer to black.
1 In the Capture menu, select EV Compensation.
2 In the EV Compensation menu,
use the buttons to change
the EV setting in 0.5 steps from
-2.0 to -1-2.0. The new setting is
applied to the Live View screen
behind the menu, so you should
be able to see the effect the
setting will have on the picture.
3 Press OK to save the setting and return to the Capture menu.
If the setting is anything other than the default setting of 0
(zero), the number value will appear at the top of the live View
screen.
The new setting remains in effect until it is changed again or
until the camera is turned off.
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