Sony DCR-HC52, DCR-HC54 manual WHT BAL White balance, Beep, Indoor n

BLACK

MOSC. FADER

MONOTONE

When fading in, the picture gradually changes from black and white to color. When fading out, it gradually changes from color to black and white.

WHT BAL (White balance)

You can adjust the color balance to the brightness of the recording environment.

BAUTO

The white balance is adjusted automatically.

OUTDOOR ()

The white balance is appropriately adjusted for the following recording conditions:

–Outdoors

–Night views, neon signs and fireworks

–Sunrise or sunset

–Under daylight fluorescent lamps

INDOOR (n)

The white balance is appropriately adjusted for the following recording conditions:

–Indoors

–At party scenes or studios where the lighting conditions change quickly

–Under video lamps in a studio, or under sodium lamps or incandescent-like color lamps

ONE PUSH ()

The white balance will be adjusted according to the ambient light.

1Touch [ONE PUSH].

2Frame a white object such as a piece of paper, to fill the screen under the same lighting conditions as you will shoot the subject.

3Touch .

flashes quickly. When the white balance has been adjusted and stored in the memory, the indicator stops flashing.

bNotes

• Set [WHT BAL] to [AUTO] or [ONE PUSH]
	under white or cool white fluorescent lamps.
• When you select [ONE PUSH], keep framing
	white object while		is flashing quickly.
•		flashes slowly if [ONE PUSH] could not
	be set.
• When [ONE PUSH] was selected, if					keeps
						Using
	BAL] to [AUTO].			, set [WHT
	flashing after touching
• If you set [WHT BAL], [SCENE SEL] setting is						the
	canceled.					Menu
z Tips

•If you have changed the battery pack while [AUTO] was selected, or taken your camcorder outdoors after inside use with the [EXPOSURE] set (or vice versa), select [AUTO] and aim your camcorder at a nearby white object for about 10 seconds for better color balance adjustment.

•When the white balance has been set with [ONE PUSH], if you change the [SCENE SEL.] settings, or bring your camcorder outdoors from inside the house, or vice versa, you need to redo the [ONE PUSH] procedure to readjust the white balance.

BEEP*

BON

A beeping sound starts when you start/stop recording, or operate the touch panel.

OFF

Cancels the beeping sound and shutter sound.

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