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Applicable modes:
You can display colour bars, which is convenient for adjusting settings such as the picture
quality of an external monitor. When you display colour bars, a test tone will also be
output.
• The brightness and colour tone that appear on the camera’s monitor or viewfinder may differ
from those that appear on another device such as an external monitor.
Check the final picture quality on another device such as an external monitor.
• Colour bars will be displayed and a test tone will be output.
• You can set the test tone level from among three options (
s
12 dB,
s
18 dB, and
s
20 dB) by
rotating the rear dial.
• If you press the motion picture button, the colour bars and the test tone will be recorded as a
motion picture.
• Press [MENU/SET] to stop displaying the colour bars and outputting the test tone.
[Color Bars]
>
[Motion Picture]
>
[Color Bars]
[SMPTE]
Colour bars compliant with SMPTE
[EBU]
Colour bars compliant with EBU
[ARIB]
Colour bars compliant with ARIB
MENU