White Balance Adjustment

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1 Make the following settings on the camera.

POWER switch: ON/SAVE

OUTPUT/DCC switch: one of the CAM positions

Lens aperture selector: A (automatic)

ATW button: OFF

2 Set the FILTER control according to the lighting conditions. (See page 44.)

 

This step is not required when WIDE BAND

 

 

 

AWB is set to ON on page 4 <WHITE

 

 

 

 

MEMORY> of the OPERATION menu.

 

 

 

 

 

3 Set the W. BAL switch to A or B.

 

 

 

 

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4 Arrange a white subject (paper, cloth, etc.) under

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the same lighting conditions as for shooting, and

zoom in on it so that as far as possible the whole

 

 

screen is white.

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The minimum white area requirements for the

adjustment are shown in the following figure.

 

Area of white within this rectangle should be

Center of the screen equivalent to at least 10% of the image area.

approximately

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

approximately

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

70% of the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

70% of the

height of the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

width of the

image

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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5 Push the WHT/BLK switch in the WHT direction and release.

The white balance adjustment is carried out. During the adjustment the legend “AWB:EXECUTING” appears in the viewfinder. After a few seconds the adjustment is complete, and the legend in the viewfinder changes to “AWB:OK” plus a color temperature, as shown in the following figure.

AWB:0K

3200K

The adjustment value is automatically saved in memory A or B as selected above.

If you press the WHT/BLK switch toward either side while “AWB: EXECUTING” is being displayed, the white balance adjustment in progress is canceled, and the camera returns to the previous state.

To save the white balance adjustment for different lighting conditions, repeat steps 2 to 4 above. You can save two different values for the white balance, in memories A and B.

Note

When using a camera control unit or remote control unit, if the W/B BALANCE switch of the control unit is set to PRESET or MANUAL, it is not possible to carry out white balance adjustment on the camera.

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Chapter 5 Adjustments and Settings