my DC has a setting for the phrase above, any idea what it means?

lol, I think you might find it is exposure compensation.

This allows you to increase and decrease the exposure, usually in 1/3rd stop increments. It allows a certain amount of fine tuning when using modes other than manual exposure.

For instance if you just use your camera in auto or program mode, and take a photo of a scene that comes out a little dark, you can up the exposure by a couple of incremements to compensate for the camera's mode to give you exactly what you want.

This is usually necessary when photographing black or very dark objects (you'll need to underexpose these) or white or very light objects (you'll need to over expose these). The reason for the is that the camera's exposure meter is calibrated to assume everything is 18% grey. This is the 'standard' by which light meters are set. If you photograph something black, it will assume it is really grey and so the camera will use an exposure that makes your black object turn out grey. The same for white objects.

Also back lit subjects that sometimes fool the camera's exposure modes need compensation.

Hopefully this makes sense.

Phil

Waht5 kind of camera. If Phil's explanation isn't what you have, we can look it up in the net and check out the specs.

won it at a christmas party, its a Kodak Easyshare cx7300