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

 

 

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

 

 

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.

When the white balance has been set with [ONE PUSH], if the lighting conditions changed by bringing your camcorder outdoors from inside the house, or vice versa, you need to redo the [ONE PUSH] procedure to readjust the white balance.

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