Taking pictures with Exposure Compensation

Recording Mode:

Corrects exposure to obtain optimum exposure (for example, if there is difference between brightness of object and background). Depending on the brightness, this may be impossible in some cases.

Under-exposed

 

Optimum exposure

 

Over-exposed

 

 

 

 

 

Plus direction

Minus direction

Display [Exposure]

Select a value

No compensation

After exposure adjustment, the adjustment value ( for example) is displayed. The Exposure Compensation value you set is retained even after the camera is turned

off.

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Taking pictures according to the scene

[Scene Mode]

Recording Mode:

Using [Scene Mode] enables you to take pictures with optimum settings (exposure, colouring, etc.) for given scenes.

Display the screen for Recording

Mode selection

Select [Scene Mode]

Select and set the scene

Scene menu

Selecting a Scene Mode inappropriate for the actual scene may affect the colouring of your picture.

The following [Rec] menu settings will be automatically adjusted and prevents manual selection (available settings vary according to scene setting):

[Sensitivity], [Color Mode]

[White Balance] can only be set in the following scenes.

[Portrait], [Soft Skin], [Self Portrait], [Panorama Assist], [Sports], [Baby], [High Sens.] (Setting is restored to [AWB] when scene is changed.)

The types of flash available (→37) vary according to the scene. The Scene Mode flash setting is reset to the default setting when the Scene Mode is changed.

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Panasonic DMC-S3, DMC-S1 operating instructions Taking pictures with Exposure Compensation, Display Exposure Select a value