Notes
If you set [SCENE SELECTION], [WHITE BAL.] setting is canceled.
WHITE BAL. (White balance)
You can adjust the color balance to the brightness of the recording environment.
Steps
In recording mode, 
(OPTION) [WHITE BAL.] a desired setting 
AUTO | The white balance is adjusted automatically. |
The white balance is appropriately adjusted for the following recording conditions:
OUTDOOR ( | ) | Outdoors | |
Night views, neon signs and fireworks | |||
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Sunrise or sunset
Under daylight fluorescent lamps
| The white balance is appropriately adjusted for the following recording | |
| conditions: | |
INDOOR () | Indoors | |
At party scenes or studios where the lighting conditions change quickly | ||
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| Under video lamps in a studio, or under sodium lamps or incandescent- | |
| like color lamps |
The white balance will be adjusted according to the ambient light.
Touch [ONE PUSH].
Frame a white object such as a piece of paper, to fill the screen under the
ONE PUSH ( |
| ) | same lighting conditions as you will shoot the subject. |
|
Touch [
].
flashes quickly. When the white balance has been adjusted and stored in the memory, the indicator stops flashing.
Notes
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 objects 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 set to [AUTO].
Tips
If you have changed the battery pack while [AUTO] was selected, or taken your camcorder outdoors after inside use (or vice versa), select [AUTO] and aim your camcorder at a nearby white object for about 10 seconds for better color balance adjustment.
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