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HP PhotoSmart 812 Review
By Movable Type Admin
Record Modes & Menu Options
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On the left is the typical record screen when using the color LCD as the viewfinder. There is a small status line at the top with the image quality, number of pictures remaining, and battery condition.
On the right are all possible displays capable on the record screen: image quality, number of
pictures remaining, counter for length of audio annotation attached to image, self timer
active, flash status, macro and battery condition. The frame box signifies the area of digital
zoom crop and the center brackets denote the area of focus detection.
After you reach the maximum optical zoom position, the camera begins stepping through the
digital zoom levels from 1.3x to 4.0x. Digital zoom can only be used when the color LCD is
enabled as all framing must be done on the screen. There is no menu option to lock out the
digital zoom. Digital zoom is not the same as optical zoom, it simply crops various sized
"chunks" of the frame and saves them as an image.
 Options on page one of the Setup menu:
4 stars - 2272 x 1712 pixels, 2.5MB file size (5 per 16MB) 3 stars - 2272 x 1712 pixels, 1MB file size (14 per 16MB) 2 stars - 1136 x 856 pixels, 500KB file size (28 per 16MB) 1 star - 1136 x 856 pixels, 250KB file size (56 per 16MB), Audio Record allows recording a 10 sec. audio clip with a still image Set camera sounds to High, Low or Off Date / time setup.
Page two of Setup Options include USB configuration to choose how a USB connected computer
would "see" the connection - either Digital Camera or Disk Drive, TV output signal
format (NTSC or PAL) and to choose one of five
Language choices for the menus.
The PhotoSmart 812 captures up to 60-second video clips at 20 frames per second with audio at 288 x 208 resolution in the MPEG-1 format. As with most digicams that record sound with video, the zoom cannot be used while recording but can be preset before recording begins. |
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