Adaptive Lighting; Exposure Compensation; White Balance; Iso Speed - HP Photosmart R830 Series User Manual

Adaptive Lighting

This setting balances the relationship between bright and dark areas in a picture,
preserving gentle contrasts while reducing harsh contrasts. When used with a flash,
Adaptive Lighting can brighten areas that a flash wouldn't reach.
Lighting is useful in situations like these:
• Outdoor scenes with a mixture of sun and shade
• High contrast scenes that contain both light and dark objects
• Indoor scenes that use flash photography (to soften or even out the effect of the flash)
• Backlit scenes where the subject is too far away for the flash to reach, or is severely
backlit (for example, in front of a window)

Exposure Compensation

You can use
setting.
(like a white object against a light background) or many dark objects (like a black object
against a dark background). Such scenes could turn out gray without the use of
Exposure Compensation. For a scene with many light objects, increase the
Exposure Compensation to a positive number. For a scene with many dark objects,
decrease the
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a scene, use
Picture Capture and Video Record menus" on page

White Balance

Different lighting conditions cast different colors. This setting allows the camera to
compensate for this, reproducing colors more accurately and ensuring that whites appear
white in the final image. You can also adjust the white balance to produce creative effects.
For example, the

ISO speed

This setting adjusts the sensitivity of the camera to light. When
the default Auto setting, the camera selects the best ISO speed for the scene.
Lower ISO speeds capture images with the least amount of grain (or noise), but result in
slower shutter speeds. If taking a picture in low light conditions without a flash at
100, use a tripod.
Higher ISO numbers allow faster shutter speeds, and can be used when taking pictures
in dark areas without a flash, or when taking pictures of fast moving objects. Higher ISO
speeds produce pictures with more grain (or noise) and, therefore, can be of lower quality.
Exposure Compensation to override the camera's automatic exposure
Exposure Compensation is useful in scenes that contain many light objects
Exposure Compensation.
To see the effect varying
Exposure Bracketing (see Exposure Bracketing under
Sun setting produces a warmer look to the image.
Exposure Compensation settings might have on
Using the Picture Capture and Video Record menus
Adaptive
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ISO Speed is set to
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ISO
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