FEATURES FOR RECORDING EN 41

Manual White Balance Adjustment

Select “OFF” in step 3. The effect indicator

disappears.

Adjust the white balance

 

 

NOTES:

manually when shooting

 

 

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

under various types of

 

 

pressing and holding the Recording Start/Stop

lighting.

 

 

Button.

1 Set the Power Switch

 

 

● Some Wipe/Fader Effects cannot be used with

 

 

certain modes of Program AE with special effects.

to “M”.

White paper

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

2 Hold a sheet of plain

 

 

blinks or goes out.

 

 

 

white paper in front of the subject. Adjust zoom

WIPE/FADER

or position yourself so that the white paper fills

 

the screen.

 

 

OFF: Disables the function. (Factory-preset)

3 Select “MWB” in “u W.BALANCE” menu

 

FADER–WHITE: Fade in or out with a white

( pg. 31), then press and hold MENU until

 

screen.

begins blinking.

 

 

FADER–BLACK: Fade in or out with a black

● When the setting is completed,

stops blinking.

screen.

4 Press MENU twice. The Menu Screen closes

FADER–B.W: Fade in to a color screen

and the Manual White Balance indicator

is

from a black and white screen, or fade out from

displayed.

 

 

 

 

color to black and white.

NOTES:

 

 

 

 

WIPE–CORNER: Wipe in on a black screen

● In step 2, it may be difficult to focus on the white

from the upper right to the lower left corner, or

paper. In such a case, adjust focus manually.

 

 

wipe out from lower left to upper right, leaving a

( pg. 38)

 

 

 

 

black screen.

● A subject can be shot under various types of

 

 

WIPE–WINDOW: The scene starts in the

lighting conditions indoors (natural, fluorescent,

candlelight, etc.). Because the color temperature

centre of a black screen and wipes in toward the

is different depending on the light source, the

 

corners, or comes in from the corners, gradually

subject tint will differ depending on the white

 

wiping out to the centre.

balance settings. Use this function for a more

 

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

natural result.

 

 

 

 

wipe out from left to right.

● Once you adjust white balance manually, the

 

 

 

setting is retained even if the power is turned off or

WIPE–DOOR: Wipe in as the two halves of

the battery removed.

 

 

a black screen open to the left and right,

Wipe Or Fader Effects

 

 

revealing the scene, or wipe out and the black

 

 

screen reappears from left and right to cover the

 

 

 

scene.

These effects let you make pro-style scene

 

WIPE–SCROLL: The scene wipes in from

transitions. Use them to spice up the transition

the bottom to the top of a black screen, or wipes

from one scene to the next.

 

 

 

 

out from top to bottom, leaving a black screen.

Wipe or Fader works when video recording is

WIPE–SHUTTER: Wipe in from the centre

started or stopped.

 

 

 

 

of a black screen toward the top and bottom, or

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

wipe out from the top and bottom toward the

2 Set the Power Switch to “M”.

 

 

centre leaving a black screen.

 

 

 

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

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

●The selected effect indicator appears.

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

To deactivate the selected effect