Manual Recording (Continued)

Menus

Settings: [ ] = Factory-preset

@[AUTO]: White balance is adjusted automatically.

3 MANUAL :

B MWB: Adjusts the white balance manually depending on the light source.

WB WB

1)

Hold a sheet of plain white paper in front

Adjusts the white balance

 

of the subject so that the white paper fills

to achieve the optimum

 

the screen.

colors for the amount of

2)

Keep touching the OK button until the

light in your surroundings

 

B indicator starts blinking then stops

during recording.

 

 

 

blinking.

DFINE: When shooting outdoors on a sunny day. E CLOUD: When shooting outdoors on a cloudy day.

F HALOGEN: When a video light or similar type of lighting is used.

 

 

 

PHOTOMETRY AREA

6 [WHOLE SCREEN]: Brightness is adjusted automatically for

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enables you to adjust the

whole screen.

brightness in the desired

7 SPOT: Brightness for the specified spot is adjusted

spot when backlight

automatically.

compensation does not

 

 

work well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 [OFF]: No effect is used.

 

 

 

 

J SEPIA: The image has a brownish tint like old still images.

w EFFECT

B/W MONOTONE: The image becomes black and white like old

movies.

Enables you to record

L CLASSIC FILM*: This effect skips frames to give images of an

videos or still images with

special effects.

old movie atmosphere.

M STROBE*: The image looks like a series of consecutive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

snapshots.

 

 

 

 

* ! mode only.

 

 

 

TELE MACRO

1 [OFF]: Disables the function.

t

0 ON: Activates the function.

Enables you to shoot

 

 

NOTE

 

a subject as large as

 

Set [TELE MACRO] to [OFF] if you will not take close-up still

possible at a distance of

approx. 50 cm (1.64 ft).

images.

 

 

 

 

Non-close-up still images will be blurred if [TELE MACRO] is set to

 

 

 

 

[ON].

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JVC GZ-MS130BU manual Photometry Area, Effect, Tele Macro

GZ-MS130BU specifications

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