Rectangle centered on the screen. The lengths of the sides are 70% of the length and width of the screen.
The white object must be within the rectangle and have an area of at least 10% of the screen.
Note
Make sure there are not bright spots in the rectangle.
4 Adjust the lens iris.
Manually adjusted lens: Set the iris to an appropriate setting.
3Chapter | Lens with automatic iris: Set the automatic/manual | |
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| switch on the lens to automatic. | |
PlaybackandRecording | 5 Push the AUTO W/B BAL switch to WHT, and then | |
release the switch. | ||
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AUTO W/B BAL switch
The switch returns to the center position, and the adjustment is executed.
During adjustment, the message “AWB: EXECUTING” is displayed on the viewfinder screen.
The white balance is adjusted in about one second, and the message “AWB: OK” appears. The adjustment setting is automatically stored in the memory (A or B) that was selected in step 1.
AWB:OK
. K 
Approximate color temperature of the subject
Notes
•The color temperature display that appears after white balance adjustment is calculated on the basis of the R/G/B signal output from the camera. It may not agree with the results of measurement by commercially available color temperature meters.
The camcorder’s color temperature display should be regarded as an approximation.
•If the camera has a zoom lens with an automatic iris, the iris may hunt 1). To prevent this, adjust the iris gain knob (indicated as IG, IS, or S) on the lens.
For details, refer to the lens operation manual.
1)Hunting: Repeated brightening and darkening of the image, resulting from repeated response to automatic iris control.
If the automatic white balance adjustment cannot be made
If the white balance adjustment cannot be completed normally, an error message will appear for about 3 seconds on the viewfinder screen.
Error message | Meaning |
AWB: NG | The white video level is too low. Either |
LOW LEVEL | open the lens iris or increase the gain. |
AWB: NG | The color temperature is too high. |
COLOR TEMP | Select a suitable setting for the 5600K |
HIGH | button. |
AWB: NG | The color temperature is too low. Use |
COLOR TEMP | the 5600K button for proper setting. |
LOW |
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AWB: NG | Adjustment could not be completed |
TIME LIMIT | within the standard number of |
| attempts. Try to adjust again. If |
| adjustment fails a few times, contact |
| your Sony dealer. |
AWB: NG | The white area could not be checked. |
POOR WHITE |
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AREA |
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AWB: NG | The white video level is too high. Either |
OVER LEVEL | stop down the lens iris or change the |
| ND filter. |
If any of the above error messages is displayed, retry the white balance adjustment. If the error message occurs repeatedly, contact your Sony dealer.
If you have no time to adjust the white balance Set the WHITE BAL switch to PRST.
The white balance is automatically set as follows, depending on the state of the 5600K button.
•5600K button lit: 5600K
•5600K button not lit: 3200K
About the white balance memory
Values stored in memory are held until the white balance is next adjusted.
There are two sets of white balance memories, A and B, which you can switch between with the WHITE BAL switch (PRST/A/B).
On the WHITE SETTING page of the MAINTENANCE menu, when WHT FILTER INH is set to OFF, there are two memories, A and B for each position of the ND filter of this unit (CLEAR, 1/4 ND, 1/16 ND, and 1/64 ND).
In this case, the memory is switched as you change the ND filter position, for a total of eight (4×2) memories.
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