Viewfinder

MENU

4MENU END

AUTO

FOCUS

EXPOSURE

AUTO

DATE

TIME

25. 12. 98

TELE

MACRO

OFF

TAPE LENGTH T30

M. W. B.

SPEED

AUTO

 

ZOOM

FAST

 

4NEXT

 

 

Menu Screen

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Manual White Balance Adjustment (M.W.B.)

The white balance is usually adjusted automatically. However, the more advanced camcorder operator would prefer to control this function manually and achieve a more professional colour/tint reproduction.

ACCESS MENU SCREEN

M. W. B.

AUTO

: FINE

: CLOUD

: HALOGEN MWB

EXIT

Select Dial

M.W.B. Menu Screen

MENU

Jog Dial

1 Turn the Select Dial to any position except AUTO LOCK, then press the MENU Jog Dial. The Menu Screen appears.

ACCESS WHITE BALANCE MENU SCREEN

2 Rotate the MENU Jog Dial to move the highlight bar to “M.W.B.”, then press it.

SELECT WHITE BALANCE

3 Rotate the MENU Jog Dial to move the highlight bar to the required white balance.

AUTO

Automatic adjustment

: FINE

Outdoors on sunny day

: CLOUD

Outdoors on cloudy day

: HALOGEN” ...

Light source is halogen or

 

 

tungsten lamp

MWB

When using a personal White

 

 

Balance Setting stored in

 

 

memory (see below.)

CLOSE MENU

4 Press the MENU Jog Dial. The Menu Screen reappears. Then press the MENU Jog Dial again to exit the Menu Screen.

MWB

NOTES:

To switch to automatic white balance adjustment, set the M.W.B. in the Menu Screen to “AUTO”, or turn the Select Dial to “AUTO LOCK”.

Re-adjust the White Balance when the lighting has changed, when the camcorder has been turned off and on again, or when the Select Dial’s position has been changed.

When adjusted by putting coloured paper in front of the subject in step 1 of “MWB”, this unit makes its colour temperature standard for automatic white balance. So you can enjoy shooting with different colours. For example, when adjusting with red, blue or yellow colours, the image becomes the colour which approximates to green, orange or purple respectively.

It is helpful to connect your camcorder to a

colour monitor when adjusting the white balance (pg. 38).

MWB sets the colour temperature for the subject’s light source so you can shoot with natural colours that are unaffected by surroundings, even when there are multiple subjects with different colour temperatures.

PREPARE WHITE OBJECT

1 Point the camcorder at a white, flat object such as a sheet of white paper.

SELECT MWB

2 Follow step 1 through 3 of the above, select “MWB”.

MEMORIZE WHITE BALANCE

3 Press the MENU Jog Dial until “MWB” begins blinking. “MWB” blinks while the white balance is being stored in memory, then the Menu Screen reappears when memorization is complete.

CLOSE MENU

4 Press the MENU Jog Dial.

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JVC GR-AX280, GR-AX480 specifications Manual White Balance Adjustment M.W.B

GR-AX280, GR-AX480 specifications

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