•During focus lock, press and push the joystick () toward [FOCUS] again to return the camcorder to autofocus.

Infinity Focus

Use this function when you wish to focus on faraway subjects such as mountains or fireworks.

Instead of step 2 in the previous procedure:

Push the joystick () toward [FOCUS] and hold it for more than 2 seconds.

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•Push the joystick () toward [FOCUS] again to return the camcorder to autofocus.

•If you operate the zoom or joystick

( ), changes to “MF” and the camcorder returns to manual focus.

White Balance

The white balance function helps you to accurately reproduce colors under different lighting conditions so that white objects will always look truly white in your recordings.

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POINTS TO CHECK

Mode switch: (except for the Special Scene recording programs).

Options

 Default value

[ AUTO]

 

 

The camcorder automatically sets the white balance for natural looking colors.

[ DAYLIGHT]

For recording outdoors on a bright day.

[ TUNGSTEN]

For recording under tungsten and tungsten type (3-wavelength) fluorescent lighting.

[ SET]

Use the custom white balance setting to make white subjects appear white under colored lighting.

FUNC.

[ AUTO] Desired option*

FUNC.

* When you select [ SET], do not press FUNC. and continue instead with the following procedure.

TO SET THE CUSTOM WHITE BALANCE

1Point the camcorder at a white object, zoom in until it fills the

whole screen and press . When the adjustment is completed, stops flashing and stays on.

2Press FUNC. to save the setting and close the menu.

The camcorder retains the custom setting even if you turn off the camcorder.

NOTES

•When you select the custom white balance:

-Set the custom white balance in a sufficiently illuminated place.

-Select a zoom type other than

[ DIGITAL] ( 30).

-Reset the white balance when the lighting conditions change.

-Depending on the light source, may keep flashing. The result will still be better than with [ AUTO].

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