CAMERA SET menu (Continued)

EXPOSURE

You can fix the brightness of a picture manually. When recording indoors on a clear day, for instance, you can avoid backlight shadows on people next to the window by fixing the exposure to that of the wall side of the room. Set the AUTO LOCK switch to OFF beforehand (p.25).

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Touch [MANUAL].

Adjust the exposure by touching

/ .

Touch .

appears.

To return the setting to automatic exposure, touch [AUTO] .

•You can also adjust the exposure with the EXPOSURE/VOL lever assigned to [EXPOSURE] (p. 24).

WHITE BAL. (White balance)

You can adjust the color balance to the brightness of the recording environment. Set the AUTO LOCK switch to OFF beforehand (p. 25).

AUTO

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 ()

 

The white balance is adjusted to be

 

appropriate for the following recording

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conditions:

– Indoors

 

–At party scenes or studios where the lighting conditions change quickly

–Under the video lamps of those at a studio, or under sodium lamps or incandescent-like color lamps

ONE PUSH ()

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 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.

You can also adjust the white balance with the ASSIGN button assigned to [ONE PUSH WB] (p.66).

•Keep framing a white object while is flashing quickly.

• flashes slowly if white balance could not be set.

•If keeps flashing even after you

have touched , set [WHITE BAL.] to [AUTO].

•When you have changed the battery pack while [AUTO] is selected, select [AUTO] and aim your camcorder at a nearby white object for about 10 seconds for better color balance adjustment.

•Redo the [ONE PUSH] procedure if you change the [PROGRAM AE] settings, or bring your camcorder outdoors from inside the house, or vice versa.

•To adjust the white balance under white or cool white fluorescent lamps, set [WHITE BAL.] to [AUTO], or follow the procedure when using [ONE PUSH].

SHARPNESS

You can adjust the sharpness of the image

outline with /. appears when the sharpness is anything other than the default setting.

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