HP R717 - Manual (Page 63)

63 Taking Pictures and Recording Video Clips
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 object against a light background) or
many dark objects (like a black object against 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 61), select EV Compensation.
2. In the EV Compensation sub-
menu, use the buttons to
change the EV setting in
incremental steps from -3.0 to
+3.0. The new setting is applied
to the Live View screen behind
the menu, so you can see the
effect each setting will have on the picture.
3. Press the button to save the setting and return to the
Capture Menu.
If the setting is anything other than the default 0.0 setting, the
number value will appear in the Live View screen next to the
icon. The EV Compensation setting remains in effect until
it is changed again, or until it resets to the default 0.0 setting
when you turn the camera off. To save changed settings, use
My Mode (see page 55).