
Setting the White Balance
You can choose one of the preset settings to reproduce colors more accurately, or set a custom white balance to obtain the setting best suited to your specific recording conditions.
AUTO | Settings are automatically set by the camcorder. Use this |
| setting for outdoor scenes. |
DAYLIGHT For recording outdoors on a bright day.
SHADEFor recording in shaded places.
CLOUDYFor recording on a cloudy day.
TUNGSTEN For recording under tungsten and tungsten type
FLUORESECENT For recording under warm white, cool white or warm white type
FLUORESCENT H For recording under daylight or daylight type
SETUse the custom white balance setting to make white subjects
appear white under colored lighting.
White sheet or paper (if you select SET)
Zoom lever
Mode dial
FUNC. button
Multi Selector

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1.Set the camcorder to a recording mode (




2.Press the FUNC. button.
3.First, select () the current white balance symbol from the left side column and then select (
) the desired option from the bottom bar.
If you select a white balance setting other than [ SET], continue directly to step 5.
To set the custom white balance when you select [ SET]:
4.Point the camcorder at a white object, zoom in until it fills the whole screen and press ( ).
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