RECORDING MENU ITEMS

You can setup the menu items for movie and photo images recording.

Scene Mode (AE)

This HD camcorder automatically sets the shutter speed and aperture according to the subject brightness for optimum recording. You can also specify one of six modes depending on subject conditions, recording environment or purpose of filming.

Settings

Contents

On-screen

display

 

 

 

- Auto balance between the subject and the background.

 

Auto

- To be used in normal conditions.

None

- The shutter speed is automatically adjusted from 1/50 to 1/250 per second,

 

 

 

depending on the scene.

 

 

- Allows user to record in a dark place even with decreased lighting. However, an afterimage

 

Night

will appear with a moving subject.

 

 

- If there is difficulty in automatically focussing subject image, adjust the focus manually.

 

 

- Reduces blurring when recording rapidly moving subjects such as in golf or tennis.

 

Sports

If the Sports mode is used under a fluorescent light, the image may flicker. In this

 

 

case, use the Auto mode for recording.

 

 

- Creates a shallow depth of field so that the person or subject appears against a

 

Portrait

softened background.

 

- The portrait mode is most effective when used outdoors.

 

 

 

 

- The shutter speed is automatically adjusted from 1/50 to 1/1000 per second.

 

Spotlight

- Prevents overexposure of subject’s face, etc. when strong light strikes the subject,

 

as in a wedding or on stage.

 

 

 

Beach/

- Prevents under exposure of subject’s face, etc. in a place where light reflection is

 

Snow

intense, such as at the beach in midsummer or on a ski slope.

 

You can check the selected Scene mode on the on-screen information display. However, nothing will appear in Auto mode.

This function will be set to “Auto” in the EASY Q mode.

If Shutter or Exposure is set to Manual, Scene Mode (AE) is released.

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Samsung VP-HMX20C/EDC, VP-HMX20C/CAN Recording Menu Items, Scene Mode AE, Night Will appear with a moving subject, Sports

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