RCA ProV714, ProV712 manual Lighting, Reference

Lighting

500 to 100,000 lux of light is best for clear, good- quality recordings. Though recording is possible with less light, insufficient lighting can result in poor picture quality.

Reference

Lighting is not only one of the most important areas in producing home videos, but also one of the most overlooked. Good lighting can often mean the difference between a great picture and a poor one. Lighting is also essential for correct white balance.

In most outdoor, daytime scenes, natural lighting is adequate for home videos. Indoors, the situation becomes more complicated. Artificial lighting is required, and halogen lamps provide the most natural artificial light while maintaining a constant color temperature over a long period.

Good lighting is difficult to achieve. There are many problems waiting to catch the unwary. Simply mounting one light or several lights on either side of the Camcorder will only make your subject look flat and two-dimensional. To make a subject more interesting, use lighting to model your subject and to add or create emphasis in a scene.

Notes

∙The figures in the charts are approximations.

∙The auto white balance operates automatically within the range of “AUTO” shown in the chart. However, it will satisfactorily operate from 2,500 K up to 8,000 K, although the picture may take on a red or blue tint.

Brightness	Situation (Lux)
(Lux)

	Blue sky
100,000	Clear day at noon (100,000)
	Clear day at 10 am (65,000)
	Clear day at 3 pm (35,000)
10,000	Cloudy day at noon (32,000)
	Cloudy day at 10 am (25,000)
	Cloudy day, one hour after sunrise (2,000)
	Clear day, one hour before sunset (1,000)
1,000	Fluorescent light near window (1,000)
	Factory floor (700-800)
	Sales counter in department store (500-700)
	Bowling alley (500)
	Library (400-500)
100	Office with fluorescent lighting (400-500)
	Fluorescent desk lamp (400)
	Flashlight at 3 ft (1 m) (250)
	Shop stairway (100)
	During intermission at movie theater (15-35)
	Cigarette lighter at 1 ft (30 cm) (15-20)
	Candles on birthday cake at 8 inches (20 cm)
10	(10-15)
	Candlelight
Color Tem-			White
perature
	Situation	Color Balance
(degrees
			Range
Kelvin)
10,000	Clear day	Blue
9,000
8,000	Cloudy day
7,000	Rainy day
6,500	Daylight fluorescent light
			A
6,000	Camera flashbulb
5,500
			U
5,000	Blue photolamp	White
4,500	White fluorescent light		T
3,500	Off-white fluorescent light
	Tungsten photolamp		O
3,200	Halogen lamp
2,800	Tungsten lamp	Yellow
	lodine lamp
2,500	Acetylene lamp
	Kerosene lamp
2,000	Candlelight	Red

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