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HP 912 Digital Camera
HP Imaging Technology
User’s Guide
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Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................. 5 Product Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 What’s in this Guide ...........................................................................................................
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Chapter 6: Menu and Soft Key Reference ...................................................................................................................60 Capture Mode Menus and Soft Keys ...........................................................................................................60 Playback Mode Menu and Soft Keys ........................................................................................................... 82 Review Mode Menus and Soft Keys ........................
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Chapter 1: Introduction Welcome to the HP 912 Digital Camera User’s Guide. This guide will help you take high-quality pictures quickly and easily with your HP 912 digital camera. Product Overview The HP 912 is an SLR-type digital camera that offers control and creativity during the picture-taking process. It provides these key features: HP Imaging Technology 3x optical /2x digital zoom Three image type settings − One Shot, Continuous, and Timelapse Ten exposure modes − Auto, Portrait,
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What’s in this Guide This User’s Guide provides all the “how to” and reference information you need to use your camera successfully. Part of Manual What is Covered “Chapter 2: Preparing to Take Pictures” How to adjust settings in the status LCD, image LCD, and Capture mode menus to prepare your camera to take pictures. “Chapter 3: Taking Pictures” How to take simple point-and-shoot pictures, as well as more advanced pictures. Also how to use the zoom, Instant Review, and the sound recording
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How to Use this Guide You can use this guide online, or you can print it out. The main advantage of using it online is that you can use its built-in searching and linking capabilities on your computer to quickly find the information you need. Of course, an advantage of having a print-out is that you can take it anywhere you want to use your camera. You may also prefer to read information about your camera from a printed version, rather than on a computer screen. Note: If you choose to print t
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Chapter 2: Preparing to Take Pictures Overview You can use your camera’s default settings to take pictures in a point-and-shoot fashion, or you can use more advanced features that you set via the camera’s status LCD and image LCD. This chapter explains how to prepare your camera to take pictures by adjusting various settings on it. This chapter covers the following topics: “Accessing the Capture Mode and Powering on the Camera” on page 8 “Setting the Exposure Mode” on page 9 “Usi
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Setting the Exposure Mode Figure 2: Exposure Mode Dial Turn the exposure mode dial on the top of the camera (see Figure 2) to set the exposure mode for the camera. There are ten exposure modes: Auto Portrait Landscape Close-up Action Night Program Shutter Priority Aperture Priority Manual For the first six exposure modes listed above (Auto through Night), the camera automatically selects the appropriate settings for the specified scene. In addition to sel
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Portrait In this exposure mode, the camera automatically optimizes settings for portrait photography. In addition to biasing toward larger aperture openings, the following are forced to specific settings and are grayed-out in the Photo Assist menu: Auto Focus Range − Normal White Balance − Auto AE (Auto Exposure) Metering − Average Focus Lock − Lock ISO Speed − Auto EV Bracket − Off Exposure compensation − Off Landscape In this exposure mode, the camera automatically opt
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Action In this exposure mode, the camera automatically optimizes settings for taking pictures of subjects in action, such as people playing sports. In addition to biasing toward faster shutter speeds, the following are forced to specific settings and are grayed-out in the Photo Assist menu: Auto Focus Range − Normal White Balance − Auto AE (Auto Exposure) Metering − Average Focus Lock − Continuous ISO Speed − Auto, with bias toward faster ISO speeds EV Bracket − Off Exposure comp
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Aperture Priority Note: The Auto and the Auto with Red-Eye In this exposure mode, you select an aperture, and the camera automatically selects the shutter Reduction flash modes are not available in the speed. However, you can adjust all settings in the Photo Assist menu in this mode. The settings Aperture Priority (Av) exposure mode. remain when you switch modes (that is, move from Capture mode to another mode) and when you cycle the power on the camera (power it off and then on aga
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Using the Status LCD Buttons Figure 4: Status LCD Buttons There are four buttons to the side of the status LCD (see Figure 4): Image type button Timer mode button Auto focus area button Flash mode button These buttons toggle through the associated camera settings within the status LCD. To change one of these settings, press the associated button until you see the desired icon or set of icons displayed in the status LCD for the setting you want. Note: The status LCD buttons are in
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Setting the Timer Mode Note: The 10-Second Timer mode is disabled Your camera has four timer modes. The default timer mode is Off. Each mode is displayed on the for the Timelapse image type. (See “Setting the status LCD with the icon shown in Table 3. To set the timer mode, press the timer mode button Image Type” on page 13.) next to the status LCD to toggle through the icons on the status LCD until you see the timer setting you want (see Table 3). Note: After each timed exposure in 10-Sec
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Figure 5: Pop-up Flash Button Setting the Flash Mode Your camera has four flash modes for the pop-up flash. Each mode is displayed on the status LCD with the icon(s) shown in Table 5. The default flash mode depends on the current exposure mode that is set on the camera (see Table 5). To set the flash mode, you must first press the pop-up flash button (see Figure 5) to pop up the flash unit. (The flash does not pop up automatically.) Then press the flash mode button next to the status LC
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Understanding the Exposure Bar Graph Figure 6: Exposure Bar Graph in The exposure bar graph is only displayed in the status LCD when the camera is set to the Program, Manual Exposure Mode Shutter Priority (Tv), Aperture Priority (Av), or Manual exposure mode. This bar graph displays the number of stops that the camera is under- or over-exposing in +/- 3 stops. In the bar graph, each small tick mark is a half stop, and each large tick mark is a full stop. No No No Norma rma rma rmal l l l
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Using the Sub-Dial Figure 9: Sub-Dial The sub-dial is located on the front of the camera (see Figure 9). Its functionality changes depending on the exposure mode you set. Pr Pr Pr Prog og og ogr r r ra a a am m m m − Rotating the sub-dial adjusts up one shutter speed and down one aperture, and vice versa when rotated in the opposite direction. It also performs exposure compensation when you press and hold down the +/- /Av button on the back of the camera (see Figure 10). Shutter Shutte
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Note: When you first power on your camera, Using Flash the pop-up flash is down, and the status LCD The camera has an built-in pop-up flash. It also supports an external flash that you can attach to the shows no flash mode icons. The flash is turned hot shoe on top of the camera. off and the flash will not fire until you manually pop it up by pressing the pop-up flash button Using the Pop-up Flash on the top of the camera. Figure 11: Pop-up Flash Button To use the built-in pop-up flash:
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Using the Image LCD Figure 12: Image LCD Screen in Live View Turn the image LCD on by pressing the DISPLAY button on the back of the camera. You now see the live view of Capture mode on the image LCD. Live view lets you preview the pictures you can take Top with the camera, as well as view and change some of the camera’s settings. overlay bar shows status The image LCD screen in the live view of Capture mode includes two opaque overlay bars and an image area in the center for viewing your p
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Setting Auto/Manual Focus Press the left (AF/MF) soft key in the live view of Capture mode to toggle between Auto Focus (AF) and Manual Focus (MF) modes. Auto Focus (AF) Auto Focus (AF) is the default focus setting. In AF mode, the camera automatically focuses the lens on a picture subject. AF mode enables the camera’s auto focus system over a range determined by the settings in the Auto Focus Range submenu of the Photo Assist menu. (See “Auto Focus Range Submenu” on page 64.) Pressing the s
