Canon HF11 Manual Focus Adjustment, White Balance, Push the joystick toward Focus, Infinity Focus

Manual Focus Adjustment

Autofocus may not work well on the following subjects. In such case, focus manually.

•Reflective surfaces

•Subjects with low contrast or without vertical lines

•Fast moving subjects

•Through wet windows

•Night scenes

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POINTS TO CHECK

Adjust the zoom before you start the procedure.

1If the joystick guide does not

appear on screen, press to display it.

If [FOCUS] does not appear on the joystick guide, repeatedly push the joystick () toward [NEXT] to display it.

2Push the joystick () toward [FOCUS].

“MF” appears.

3Push the joystick () or () once to verify if the image is focused.

The center of the screen will be magnified to help you focus more easily. You can also turn off the focus assist function ( 94).

4Adjust ( ) the focus as necessary.

5Press .

•The focus will be locked.

•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.

• appears.

•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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