Setup (Main) Menu

Exposure: Controls how sensitive the camera will be to light. Press SELECT to enter the Exposure sub-menu (page 9) to access the detailed exposure controls.

Note: As the cameras have fixed iris lenses, control over exposure is determined by the electronic shutter (that is, how long each frame is “exposed” for). Unlike manually altering an iris, this setting will have no effect on your depth of field (how much of your image is in focus).

Special: Accesses the Special submenu, where many of the unique features of the OSD can be found (such as options to set the camera’s on-screen Title, adjusting the way the camera responds to Motion and allows you to access the detailed Image Adjustment submenu). For more information, see the Special Menu section on page 11.

White Balance: Controls how the camera interprets and displays colors. There are a few settings, which are as follows:

AW1 (Automatic White Balance 1): The default setting, which will attempt to create as neutral a white balance as possible. Colors tend to be slightly underexposed, but represented quite accurately. The color of the light will have less of an effect on how the camera perceives color.

AW2 (Automatic White Balance 2): The other automatic option for white balance control. Rather than attempting to automatically correct for the hue of the light (technically known as the “color temperature”) the camera attempts to accurately represent what it can see as the human eye would perceive the same scenario. As a result, images captured under daylight will seem slightly blue, whereas images captured under artificial lighting will be tinted yellow (for tungsten filaments) or green (for many fluorescent tubes).

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