EXPOSURE

You can fix the brightness of a picture manually. When recording indoors on a clear day, for instance, you can avoid backlight shadows on people next to the window by fixing the exposure to that of the wall side of the room.

1Touch [MANUAL].

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2Adjust the exposure by touching

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3Touch .

To return the setting to automatic exposure,

touch [AUTO] t .

•If you rotate the LCD panel 180 degrees and close the LCD panel with the screen facing outwards, you can adjust [FADER] and [EXPOSURE] while looking through the viewfinder (p.78).

•The setting returns to [AUTO] when you set the POWER switch to OFF (CHG) for more than 12 hours.

WHITE BAL. (White balance)

You can adjust the color balance to the brightness of the recording environment.

BAUTO

The white balance is adjusted automatically.

OUTDOOR ( )

The white balance is adjusted to be appropriate for the following recording conditions:

–Outdoors

–Night views, neon signs and fireworks

–Sunrise or sunset

–Under daylight fluorescent lamps

INDOOR (n)

The white balance is adjusted to be appropriate for the following recording conditions:

–Indoors

–At party scenes or studios where the lighting conditions change quickly

–Under the video lamps of those at a studio, or under sodium lamps or incandescent- like color lamps

ONE PUSH ()

The white balance will be adjusted according to the ambient light.

1Touch [ONE PUSH].

2Frame a white object such as a piece of paper, to fill the screen under the same lighting conditions as you will shoot the subject.

3Touch [].

flashes quickly. When the white balance has been adjusted and stored in the memory, the indicator stops flashing.

•Keep framing white object while is flashing quickly.

• flashesslowly if whitebalancecould not be set.

• keeps flashing even after you have touched , set [WHITE BAL.] to [AUTO].

•When you have changed the battery pack while [AUTO] is selected, or you bring your camcorder outdoors from inside the house while using fixed exposure,select [AUTO] and aim your camcorder at a nearby white object for about 10 seconds for better color balance adjustment.

•Redo the [ONE PUSH] procedure if you change the [PROGRAM AE] settings, or bring your camcorder outdoors from inside the house, or vice versa during the [ONE PUSH] is set to on.

•Set [WHITE BAL.] to [AUTO] or [ONE PUSH] under white or cool white fluorescent lamps.

•The setting returns to [AUTO] when you set the POWER switch to OFF (CHG) for more than 12 hours.

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