HP PhotoSmart 945 - Manual (Page 42)

42 HP Photosmart 945 User’s Manual
EV Compensation
In difficult lighting conditions, you can use EV (Exposure
Value) Compensation to override the automatic exposure
setting that the camera makes.
EV Compensation is useful 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 (page 40), select EV Compensation .
2 In the EV Compensatio n menu,
use the buttons to change the
EV setting in 0.33 steps from -3.0
to +3.0. 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 in the Live View screen
next to the icon .
The new setting remains in effect until it is changed again or
until the camera is turned off (unless EV Compensation is
checked in the Remembered Settings menu - see page 90).