White Balance

The camcorder uses an electronic white balance process to calibrate the picture for accurate color display under different lighting conditions. In addition to the fully automated mode, white balance modes include an indoor mode, an outdoor mode, a color temperature setting and two user-defined custom preset values.

WHITE BALANCE dial

Use

AWB

Automatic adjustment of white balance.

(outdoor)

Bright sunlight (5,600 K).

(indoor)

Incandescent light (3,200 K).

(color temperature)

Setting depending on the hue of a specific lighting (2,000 - 15,000 K in 100 K increments).

Custom Preset A, B

Custom preset (3,200 - 5,600 K).

Selecting the White Balance Setting

1. Set the POWER dial to a recording programother than .2. Push the WHITE BALANCE dial so that it pops out.3. Set the WHITE BALANCE dial to the desired white balance setting.

You can fine-tune the preset / settings. ress

the WHITE BALANCE button so the preset icon and the neutral value ±0 start flashing. Adjust the white balance with the SELE T dial to a value between -9 and +9 and press the WHITE BALANCE

button again.

Setting the olor Temperature

1.Set the POWER dial to a recording program other than .2.Set the WHITE BALANCE dial to .

The color temperature currently set will be displayed.

3. Press the WHITE BALANCE button.

The color temperature display will start flashing.

4.Turn the SELECT dial to set the desired color temperature.5.Press the WHITE BALANCE button again.

The color temperature display stops flashing and stays on.

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