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When you press this button again, it starts flashing and

the power supply to the camera is turned off.

 

c VF PW (viewfinder power) button

 

Press and light up this button to turn the power supply

 

to the viewfinder ON. When you press the button again,

 

it goes dark and the power supply is turned off.

 

d Signal output select buttons

 

 

 

Press and light up one of these buttons to activate the

 

test signal generator of the video camera and send the

 

respective signals.

 

 

 

 

TEST 1: To send a gamma signal to test the video

 

circuits

 

 

 

 

TEST 2: To send a staircase signal

 

 

BARS: To send a color bar signal

 

 

Note

 

 

 

 

The BARS button takes priority to the other two

 

buttons. If the BARS button is lit, press the button to

 

turn it dark before pressing the TEST 1 or TEST 2

 

button.

 

 

 

 

e CLOSE (iris close) button

 

 

 

Press and light the button to close the iris. Press again

 

to release the close mode.

 

 

 

 

f STANDARD button

 

 

 

 

When you press this button, the video camera is

 

initialized to its standard state and the button lights for

 

several seconds. If you press the button while it lights,

 

the video camera returns to the state before the button

 

was lit.

 

 

 

 

For details, refer to the System Manual.

 

 

g AUTO SETUP block

 

 

 

 

For automatic adjustments of cameras.

 

1

2

3

4

AUTO SETUP

SKIN DTL LEVEL

START/

WHITE BLACK

AUTO HUE

BREAK

 

AAuto adjustment item select buttons

Press and light up these buttons to select the items to be automatically adjusted.

SKIN DTL AUTO HUE: Skin tone detail automatic hue

LEVEL: Gamma balance, knee point, master

black level, etc.

BSTART/BREAK button

Press to start automatic adjustment of the selected items. The button lights during adjustment and goes dark when adjustment is completed. If you press the button when lit, the

automatic adjustment is canceled and the button flashes. To stop the flashing, press the button again.

CWHITE (white balance) button

Press to automatically adjust the white balance. The button lights during adjustment and goes dark when adjustment is completed. If you press this button when lit or the START/ BREAK button,

the automatic adjustment is canceled and the button flashes. To stop the flashing, press the button again.

DBLACK (black balance) button

Press to automatically adjust the black balance and black set. The button lights during adjustment and goes dark when adjustment is completed. If you press this button when lit or the START/ BREAK button, the automatic

adjustment is canceled and the button flashes. To stop the flashing, press the button again.

Notes

If an error occurs during adjustment, the pressed button flashes.

The leftmost button is for future use and has no function at present.

hCamera/CCU function ON/OFF buttons

Various functions of the video camera or the CCU can be turned on and off from this unit. The following switching functions are assigned to 18 of the buttons at the factory and the other nine buttons are reserved for future use.

KNEE

DETAIL

LVLDEP GAMMA CHROMA MATRIX

SD MATRIX SD

OFF

OFF

OFF

OFF

OFF

OFF

OFF

DETAIL

KNEE

KNEE

 

LOW KEY

 

MONO COLOR

APERTURE SAT

 

SAT

 

 

COLOR CORRECT

5600K

AUTO

SKIN

DETAIL

SATURATION CONTRAST BLACK

CHARACTER

 

KNEE

DETAIL

GATE

 

 

GAMMA

 

Upper row (OFF when the button is lit) KNEE OFF: Knee compensation function DETAIL OFF: Detail compensation function LVL DEP OFF: Level dependent function which controls the details in the dark part of a picture GAMMA OFF: Gamma function

CHROMA OFF: Chroma function

MATRIX OFF: Linear matrix function to enhance color fidelity

Middle row (ON when the button is lit) KNEE APERTURE: Knee aperture function KNEE SAT: Knee saturation function

MONO COLOR: Mono color function which mixes the chroma signals of a single hue to the luminance signal. The chroma level is modulated according to the luminance signal.

COLOR CORRECT: Color correction function for a certain hue range.

Lower row (ON when the button is lit) 5600K: 5600K electronic color temperature conversion function

AUTO KNEE: Auto knee function. When this button is lit (ON), the knee point is automatically adjusted according to the light content of the picture.

SKIN DETAIL: Skin tone detail function

DETAIL GATE: Skin tone detail gate function. When this button is lit (ON), the adjustment range of the skin tone detail is displayed in white on the monitor screen.

SATURATION: Saturation function

CONTRAST: Contrast function

BLACK GAMMA: Black gamma function

CHARACTER: System information display function. When this button is lit (ON), the various information on the entire system is displayed on the monitor connected to the CHARACTER connector of the CNU-700. The display contents can be changed through a menu operation.

HDC-900/950/930 Series Product Information Manual

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Sony 900, 930, 950 manual VF PW viewfinder power button, Close iris close button, Standard button, Auto Setup block