28 hp photosmart 630 series user’s manual
Using the viewfinder
The viewfinder has a circle and
three lines superimposed on it.
You can use the circle in the
viewfinder to center most of the
pictures you take and all of the
video clips you record. The only
time you should not use the
circle to center a picture is when
you are taking close-up pictures
using the Macro Exposure Mode setting on the camera.
NOTE The Exposure Mode setting does not apply when you
are recording video clips.
If you use the viewfinder to take close-up pictures in Macro
Exposure Mode, parallax error can occur. (This means that
some of the subject you see through the viewfinder will not
actually appear in your captured image.) The lines above and
below the circle in the viewfinder can help you correct for this.
1 Set Exposure Mode to Macro in the Capture menu. See
Using the capture menu on page 35, and then see
Exposure mode on page 39.
2 Frame the entire subject for your close-up picture within the
three lines in the viewfinder. Be sure that you line-up the
upper-left corner of the picture using the parallax lines.
NOTE It is strongly recommended, however, that you use Live
View on the Image Display (see the next section), instead
of the viewfinder, when using the Macro Exposure
Mode setting. (Live View turns on automatically when you
set the Exposure Mode to Macro .) Live View alleviates
parallax error when you are using Macro .