Basic Adjustments and

Chapter 3

Settings

3-1 Selection of the Basic Operation Modes

3-1-1 Overview of the Basic Operation Modes

With this camera, Cine mode and Custom mode can be switched. Cine mode is designed for shooting the materials that will undergo post-production editing and that do not need on-set grading, as with shooting with a film camera. Custom mode is designed for shooting with all the setting items of the camera set as you wish.

The items that can be set and the selectable values on the menus and from the remote control unit are different in Cine mode and Custom mode.

Cine mode (default mode)•The subdisplay and the USER menu are mainly used.

•The items related to image creation are fixed at the factory-set values, and menu displays are simplified.

•Only auto black balance (ABB) can be activated as auto setup.

The white balance level is fixed at the preset value (3200K), and auto white balance (AWB) and WHITE R/ G/B settings are not operative.

•On a remote control unit connected to the REMOTE connector of the camera, the values for the adjustment items whose settings fixed in Cine mode are not displayed. However, data for the ON/OFF setting items and selectable items are displayed although they are fixed in Cine mode.

•Reading/writing of files from/to a “Memory Stick” and data presetting are enabled only for the operator file that is included in the USER menu.

•Only retrieval by specifying a file number is allowed among the lens file operations.

•The reference file items are fixed to the default values set at the factory even if you have changed the values in Custom mode.

Custom mode

•This mode is designed for shooting with detailed settings on the menus or with operations from the remote control unit.

•The reference file, which stores the values to be used as reference for adjustments, and the scene files, which store the adjustment values specific to a particular scene, are available in this mode.

•User Gamma can be installed.•Modification and storage of the lens files are possible.

Note

The settings for the file items adjusted in Custom mode are maintained when the camera is switched back to Cine mode. However, the video adjustment values that are temporarily changed and not stored in any file will be cleared upon mode switching.

For details on different items and values that can be set in each mode, see “4-3 Menu List” (page 60).

3-1-2 Switching of the Basic Operation Modes
At shipment, Cine mode is selected.To switch to Custom mode

Referring to the procedures described in “2-8 Setting the Built-in Clock” (page 25), call up the <BASE SETTING> page of the MAINTENANCE menu on the viewfinder screen or the monitor screen and switch the modes.

On the same page, making settings for dynamic range and color space is also possible.

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