Changing The Screen Display - Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W30 User Manual

Changing the screen display

Each time you press the
switch) button, the display changes as
follows.
Histogram on
Indicators off
LCD screen off
Indicators on
z Using a histogram
A
A Number of pixels
B Brightness
• The histogram also appears when playing back a single image, but you cannot adjust the exposure.
(Screen display
Histogram display
B
Dark Bright
• By pressing
longer, you can brighten the LCD backlight.
(DSC-W50 only)
• When you set the histogram display to on,
image information is displayed during playback.
• The histogram does not appear in the following
situations:
While shooting
– When the menu is displayed.
– When recording movies
During playback
– When the menu is displayed.
– In index mode
– When you are using playback zoom.
– When you are rotating still images.
– During playback of movies
• During image playback, you cannot turn the
LCD screen off.
• A large difference in the histogram displayed
when shooting and during playback may occur
when:
– The flash strobes.
– The shutter speed is slow or high.
• The histogram may not appear for images
recorded using other cameras.
A histogram is a graph showing the brightness of
an image. Set the mode dial to
Selection, then press
repeatedly to display the histogram inside the
screen. The graph display indicates a bright image
when skewed to the right side, and a dark image
when skewed to the left side. Adjust the exposure
while checking it with the histogram (
"Read This First").
(Screen display switch) button
t step 5 in "Read This First"
, or Scene
,
(Screen display switch)
step 5 in
t
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