Taking pictures and videos

Setting

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Options

White Balance

 

Auto (default)—automatically corrects

Choose your lighting

 

white balance. Ideal for general picture

condition.

 

taking.

This setting remains until you

 

Daylight—for pictures in natural lighting.

change it. The setting is

 

Tungsten—corrects the orange cast of

displayed on the right side of

 

household light bulbs. Ideal for indoor

Liveview if set to Daylight,

 

pictures under tungsten or halogen lighting

Tungsten, or Fluorescent.

 

without flash.

 

 

Fluorescent—corrects the green cast of

 

 

fluorescent lighting. Ideal for indoor pictures

 

 

under fluorescent lighting without flash.

 

 

Unavailable in Auto, Scene, or Video modes.

 

 

 

Exposure Bracketing

 

+/- 0.3 EV (default)

Interval

 

+/- 0.7 EV

Choose an exposure

 

+/- 1.0 EV

bracketing interval.

 

See Using exposure bracketing, page 19.

P, A, S, M, C: This setting remains

 

 

 

until you change it or take

 

 

pictures.

 

 

Auto, Scene: This setting remains

 

 

until you turn the Mode dial or

 

 

turn off the camera.

 

 

 

 

 

Exposure Metering

 

Multi-pattern (default)—evaluates

Evaluate light levels at specific

 

lighting conditions throughout the image to

areas of a scene.

 

give an optimum picture exposure. Ideal for

This setting remains until you

 

general picture taking.

 

Center-weight—evaluates the lighting

change it. The setting is

 

displayed on the right side of

 

conditions of the subject centered in the

Liveview if set to Center-weight

 

viewfinder. Ideal for backlit subjects.

or Center-spot.

 

Center-spot—similar to Center-weight,

 

 

except the metering is concentrated on a

 

 

smaller area of the subject centered in the

 

 

viewfinder. (A circle indicates the metering

 

 

spot.) Ideal when you need an exact

 

 

exposure of a specific area in the picture.

 

 

Unavailable in Auto, Scene, or Video modes.

 

 

 

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Kodak DX7630 Setting Icon Options White Balance, Exposure Bracketing +/- 0.3 EV default Interval +/- 0.7 EV, +/- 1.0 EV