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White balance – HP M305/M307 User Manual

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Chapter 2: Taking Pictures and Recording Video Clips

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The

Image Quality

setting not only affects the quality of the

images but, as a result, also the number of images that can be

stored either in the internal memory in the camera or on an

optional memory card. Higher resolution and lower

compression images will take up more space than images with

lower resolution and/or higher compression. For example, the

highest setting,

3MP

Best

, results in high quality images, but

consumes more storage space in memory than the next lower

setting,

3MP

. Likewise, many more still images can be stored in

memory at the

1MP

or

VGA

settings than at

3MP

; however,

these settings will result in much lower quality images.
The

Pictures remaining

count at the bottom of the

Image

Quality

sub-menu screen updates when you highlight each

setting. See

Memory Capacity

on page 148 for more

information about how the

Image Quality

setting affects the

number of images that can be saved in the internal memory in

the camera.
The

Image Quality

setting (in the previous table) will appear in

the

Live View

screen. The new setting remains in effect until it is

changed again, even when you turn the camera off.

NOTE

When you use digital zoom, the resolution changes as

you zoom in. See

Digital Zoom

on page 35.

White Balance

Different kinds of lighting conditions cast different colors. For

example, sunlight is more blue, while indoor tungsten light is

more yellow. Scenes dominated by a single color may require

an adjustment of the white balance setting to help the camera

reproduce colors more accurately and ensure that whites

appear white in the final image. You can also adjust the white

balance to produce creative effects. For example, using the

Sun

setting can produce a warmer look to the image.