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Manual White Balance Adjustment
To deactivate the selected effect

Select “OFF” in step 3. The effect indicator

Adjust the white balance

 

disappears.

 

NOTES:

manually when shooting

 

under various types of

 

● You can extend the length of a Wipe or Fader by

lighting.

 

pressing and holding the Recording Start/Stop

1 Set the Power Switch

 

Button.

 

● Some Wipe/Fader Effects cannot be used with

to “M”.

White paper

certain modes of Program AE with special effects.

2 Select “MWB” in

 

( pg. 42) In this case, the selected indicator

 

 

“u W.BALANCE” menu. ( pg. 31)

blinks or goes out.

●The indication blinks slowly.

3 Hold a sheet of plain white paper in front of the subject. Adjust zoom or position yourself so that the white paper fills the screen.

4 Press and hold MENU until begins blinking rapidly.

●When the setting is completed, resumes normal blinking.

5 Press MENU twice. The Menu Screen closes

and the Manual White Balance indicator is displayed.

NOTES:

●In step 3, it may be difficult to focus on the white paper. In such a case, adjust focus manually. ( pg. 38)

●A subject can be shot under various types of lighting conditions indoors (natural, fluorescent, candlelight, etc.). Because the color temperature is different depending on the light source, the subject tint will differ depending on the white balance settings. Use this function for a more natural result.

●Once you adjust white balance manually, the setting is retained even if the power is turned off or the battery removed.

Wipe Or Fader Effects

These effects let you make pro-style scene transitions. Use them to spice up the transition from one scene to the next.

Wipe or Fader works when video recording is started or stopped.

1 Set the VIDEO/MEMORY Switch to “VIDEO”.

2 Set the Power Switch to “M”.

3 Set “v” to the desired mode. ( pg. 31)

●The WIPE/FADER menu disappears and the effect is reserved.

●The selected effect indicator appears.

WIPE/FADER

OFF: Disables the function. (Factory-preset)

FADER–WHITE: Fade in or out with a white screen.

FADER–BLACK: Fade in or out with a black screen.

FADER–B.W: Fade in to a color screen from a black and white screen, or fade out from color to black and white.

WIPE–CORNER: Wipe in on a black screen from the upper right to the lower left corner, or wipe out from lower left to upper right, leaving a black screen.

WIPE–WINDOW: The scene starts in the centre of a black screen and wipes in toward the corners, or comes in from the corners, gradually wiping out to the centre.

WIPE–SLIDE: Wipe in from right to left, or wipe out from left to right.

WIPE–DOOR: Wipe in as the two halves of a black screen open to the left and right, revealing the scene, or wipe out and the black screen reappears from left and right to cover the scene.

WIPE–SCROLL: The scene wipes in from the bottom to the top of a black screen, or wipes out from top to bottom, leaving a black screen.

WIPE–SHUTTER: Wipe in from the centre of a black screen toward the top and bottom, or wipe out from the top and bottom toward the centre leaving a black screen.

4 Press the Recording Start/Stop Button to activate the Fade-in/out or Wipe-in/out.