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 video lamps in 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 record the subject.

3Touch [].

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

bNotes

Set [WHITE BAL.] to [AUTO] or adjust the color in [ONE PUSH] under white or cool white fluorescent lamps.

When you select [ONE PUSH], keep framing

white object while is flashing quickly.

flashes slowly if [ONE PUSH] could not be set.

When [ONE PUSH] was selected, if keeps

flashing after touching , set [WHITE BAL.] to [AUTO].

If you set [WHITE BAL.], [SCENE SELECTION] is automatically set to [AUTO].

zTips

If you changed the battery pack, or moved your camcorder to or from outdoors when [AUTO] was selected, aim your camcorder at a nearby white object with [AUTO] for about 10 seconds for better color balance adjustment.

If you changed the [SCENE SELECTION] setting or moved your camcorder to or from outdoors during white balance setting with [ONE PUSH], you need to repeat the [ONE PUSH] operation.

FADER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can record a transition with the

 

Customizing

following effects adding to the interval

 

between scenes.

 

 

 

 

 

1 Select the desired effect in [STBY] (during

 

fading in) or [REC] (during fading out)

Your

mode, then touch

 

.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 Press START/STOP.

 

 

 

 

Camcorder

To cancel the fader before starting the

The fader indicator stops flashing and

 

disappears when the fade is complete.

 

operation, touch [OFF] in step 1.

 

If you press START/STOP, the setting is

 

cleared.

 

 

 

 

 

STBY

REC

 

Fading out

Fading in

 

WHITE FADER

BLACK FADER

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Sony DCR-DVD850, DCR-DVD650 manual Outdoor, Indoor n, ONE Push, White Fader Black Fader

DCR-DVD650, DCR-DVD850 specifications

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