Minolta Dimage 5, dimage7 instruction manual What is AN EV? What is a STOP?, PRO-AUTO Button

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RECORDING MODE

ADVANCED OPERATION

This section contains detailed information on the camera’s recording functions and operation. Read the sections pertaining to your interest and need. The setting the func- tion dial (p.40), Digital Effects Controller (p. 62), and the navigating the recording-mode menu (p. 80) sections cover setting most of the advanced features in this camera. Each of these sections is followed by detailed descriptions of the settings.

WHAT IS AN EV? WHAT IS A STOP?

Ev stands for exposure value. Stop refers to click stops in mechanical cameras. A change of one Ev or one stop will adjust the exposure calculated by the camera by a factor of two. Adjustments to exposure in the A, S, and M exposure modes are made in 1/2 stop increments or 0.5 Ev.

Change in Ev

Change in stops

Adjustment to exposure

 

 

 

+2.0 Ev

+2 stops

4X as much light

 

 

 

+1.0 Ev

+1 stop

2X as much light

 

 

 

0.0 Ev

Calculated exposure

 

 

 

–1.0 Ev

–1 stop

1/2 as much light

 

 

 

–2.0 Ev

–2 stops

1/4 as much light

 

 

 

PRO-AUTO BUTTON

Simply pressing the pro-auto button (1) resets the camera to programmed and automatic functions. The camera’s systems work together to bring professional results leaving the operator free to concentrate on aesthetic decisions.

1 The pro-auto button only affects functions in the recording mode. The button has a limited affect in the movie mode; exposure, contrast, and color-saturation compensation as well as the focus mode are reset.

Digital subject program (p. 38)

Canceled

Exposure mode (p. 46)

Program

Drive mode (p. 51)

Single-frame advance

Focus mode (p. 68, 71)

Single AF

Autofocus area (p. 66)

Wide

White balance (p. 58)

Auto white balance

Metering mode (p. 74)

Multi-segment metering

Exposure compensation (p. 63)

0.0

Contrast compensation (p. 64)

0

Color-saturation compensation (p. 65)

0

Flash metering (p. 75)

ADI metering

Flash compensation (p. 78)

0.0

Flash mode (p. 76)

Fill or red-eye reduction*

Sharpness (p. 86)

Normal

* The flash mode is reset to whichever of the two modes was set last.

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Minolta Dimage 5, dimage7 instruction manual What is AN EV? What is a STOP?, PRO-AUTO Button