6. SETTING AND ADJUSTMENTS BEFORE SHOOTlMft
Eyepiece
2. Eyepiece
focusing ring
3. 3.CONT BRIGHT
Adjust the position and angle of the viewfinder.
Diopter adjustment
Rotate the eyepiece focusing ring until the viewfinder screen
image is clearly visible.
Brightness and contrast adjustment
When the ambient brightness changes, etc., the brightness
and contrast of the viewfinder screen can be adjusted with
the BRIGHT and CONT controls.
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2.
3.
Connect a colour video monitor to the MONITOR OUT
connector of the GY-DV500.
Set the OUTPUT switch to BARS to output the colour bar
signal (EBU type colour bars).
Set the monitor's BLUE CHECK function to ON so that the
screen turns entirely blue.
Adjust the CHROMA control of the monitor so that there is
no difference in brightness between the colour bars ® and
With the BLUE CHECK function ON, adjust the PHASE
control of the monitor so that there is no difference in
brightness between the colour bars and
If the phase control adjustment above causes a difference
in brightness between the colour bars and start again
from the CHROMA control adjustment in step 4.
Set the monitor's BLUE CHECK function to OFF to switch
:he monitor back to the standard screen (R, G and B will all
appear).
Display the camera built-in colour bar signal on the video monitor
and adjust the colours, contrast and brightness.
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2.
3.
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6.
7.
EBU type colour bars
The colour bar screen has a configuration as shown above.
The description hereinafter refers to the positions in the colour bar
screen using the numbers.
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