User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- KODAK EASYSHARE Z981 Digital Camera
- Product features
- Table of contents
- Setting up your camera
- Taking pictures/videos
- Taking pictures in Smart Capture mode
- Taking a video
- Adjusting LCD brightness
- Capture modes
- Using the zoom
- Using the flash
- Using the Drive button
- Using the Focus button
- Taking panoramic pictures
- P, A, S, and M modes
- Using exposure compensation to adjust brightness
- Using the histogram to view picture brightness
- Understanding the picture-taking icons
- Know when your batteries need charging
- Sharing and tagging pictures
- Reviewing and editing
- Reviewing pictures/videos
- Deleting pictures/videos
- Viewing pictures/videos in different ways
- A smarter way to find your pictures
- Understanding the review icons
- Creating a multimedia slide show
- Using the menu button in review
- Selecting multiple pictures/videos
- Cropping pictures
- Copying pictures/videos
- Using KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology
- Using the RAW Develop feature
- Editing videos
- Doing more with your camera
- Transferring, printing pictures
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix
- Index

Taking pictures/videos
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Using exposure compensation to adjust brightness
In P, A, S, and Panorama modes, you can adjust exposure compensation before you
take a picture to make your pictures darker or lighter. Only the first picture in
Panorama mode can be adjusted—that adjustment is applied to the remaining
pictures. (For more about the Jog dial and Exposure Compensation, see page 20.)
1 Turn the Jog dial to choose Exposure Compensation, then press it to edit the
setting. Turn the Jog dial to change the setting, then press it to save it.
An exposure compensation level is shown on the LCD or EVF, and the image gets darker
or lighter.
2 Take the picture when you are satisfied with the exposure compensation level.
Using exposure compensation with exposure bracketing
You can use exposure compensation in conjunction with exposure bracketing to get
the best exposure.
If the exposure
compensation is set to:
And if the exposure bracketing
interval is set to 0.3 steps:
Then the exposures
taken are:
0.0
+1.0
–1.0
Set the Exposure Bracketing Interval
in the Capture menu (page 42).
–0.3, 0.0, +0.3
+0.7, +1.0, +1.3
–1.3, –1.0, –0.7










