General Tools and Instruments DPS16 - Manual (Page 14)

increase the value, press the button. To decrease the value, press the button. Once you
have set the year, advance to the next field—the month—by pressing the ▼ button. Set the
month as you did the year, by using the ▲ and ▼ buttons to increase or decrease the value by
one unit per button press. Repeat this process until all six date and time components have been
set. To back up from any field to the previous field, press the ▲ button.
The bottom line of the DATE/TIME SETUP screen also allows you to choose whether or not to
superimpose the date and time on the display in Preview mode. The default condition is “display
off”, meaning the date and time are not displayed. To always superimpose the date and time,
navigate down to the bottom line until the word OFF below the word DISPLAY is flashing in
green. Then push either the
or button to change the flashing word to ON. Finally, press
the OK button to save the setting.
The LANGUAGE line of the main menu allows you to view the main menu, as well as the DELETE
screens for individual photos and videos, in any of ten languages (English, Spanish, Italian,
French, German, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Simpified Chinese, Japanese, Danish, Dutch,
Polish, Russian and Bulgarian). Use the ▲ and ▼ buttons to navigate to the language you wish to
use and then push the OK button.
The VIDEO FORMAT line enables you to choose either NTSC or PAL formatting of the videos you
export to a TV monitor. Press either the ▲ and ▼ button to make your choice and then push the
OK button to save the setting.
Pressing the button with either NTSC or PAL flashing in green on the VIDEO FORMAT
submenu opens a sub-submenu with the following lines: Brightness, Contrast, Hue and
Saturation. You can use this submenu to change any of those four video attributes from the
default factory settings.
The default factory settings are: 00 for Brightness, 40 for Contrast, 00 for Hue, and 50 for
Saturation. To change the value of any attribute, navigate to its line and press the OK button
when its name begins flashing in green. The screen will then go dark except for the name of the
attribute at the top. To increment the value from the factory default value, press the ▼ button
(the opposite of what you’d expect). To decrement the value, press the ▲ button (again, the
opposite of what you’d expect).
There are 256 options for the value of each video attribute, and the attributes are identified and
ordered by hexadecimal (base 16) numbers. For example, pressing the ▼ button to increment
the value 09 produces 0A (the number 10 in base 16 notation); further increments yield 0B
through 0F (the numbers 11 through 15). Incrementing 0F produces the value 10 (the number 16
in hexadecimal notation). Similarly, incrementing 19 produces the value 1A; further increments
yield 1B through 1F. Incrementing 9F produces A0, further increments produce A1 through A9,
and further increments produce AA through AF. Incrementing AF produces BA, and so on, through
FF (the number 255 in hexadecimal notation). Incrementing FF completes the cycle, producing a
value of 00.
The AUTO POWER OFF line of the main menu is not visible on the screen that first appears after
you press the OK button to put the H16 into Menu mode. To show the line, scroll down past the
VIDEO FORMAT line. When the AUTO POWER OFF line appears, flashing in green, press the OK
button.
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