Changing the settings of your camcorder recordings (Continued)

Adjusting to natural color (White balance)

SHUTTER

AUTO MANUAL

GAIN WHT BAL SPEED

 

SEL / PUSH EXEC

MENU

L

B

M

A

H

PRESET

You can adjust and fix the white balance according to the lighting conditions of recording environment. You can store white balance values in memory A ( A) and memory B ( B), respectively. Unless a white balance is readjusted, values will remain even after the power has been turned off.

1 During recording or standby, set the AUTO/MANUAL switch E toMANUAL.2 Press the WHT BAL button B.3 Set the white balance memory switch A to any one of PRESET/A/B.

Select A or B for recording with the white balance setting stored in memory A or B. Select PRESET for recording with the white balance setting set in [OUTDOOR], [INDOOR] or [MANU

WB TEMP], which you have selected in[WB PRESET] of the (CAMERA SET) menu.

Indicator

Shooting conditions

A

• White balance values

(Memory A)

adjusted for light

Bsources can be stored

(Memory B)

in memory A and

memory B. Follow the

 

 

steps in “To save the

 

adjusted white balance

 

value in memory A or

 

B” (p. 33).

 

 

 

• Recording sunset/

Outdoor

sunrise, just after

sunset or just before

([OUTDOOR])

sunrise

 

•Recording neon signs or fireworks

•Under daylight color fluorescent lamps

n• Under the lighting

Indoor

conditions that change

([INDOOR])

in many ways, such as

a party hall

 

 

• Under strong light

 

such as in a

 

photography studio

 

• Under sodium lamps

 

or mercury lamps

 

 

Color

• Color temperature can

temperature

be set between 2300K

([MANU WB

and 15000K (the

default setting is

TEMP])

6500K).

 

 

 

zTips

•You can change the outdoor white balance

setting by setting offset. Press (one push)

button C while (outdoor) is selected and turn the SEL/PUSH EXEC dial D to select an offset value from -7 (bluish) to 0 (normal, the default setting) to +7 (reddish). You can also set the white balance offset value from the menu ([WB OUTDR LVL] p. 69).

•You can change the color temperature. Set [WB

PRESET] to [MANU WB TEMP] and the white balance memory switch A to PRESET, then

press the (one push) button C. Turn the SEL/PUSH EXEC dial D until the desired temperature appears on the screen, then press

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