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Recording items on the OPTION MENU (Continued)
Select this to maintain the atmosphere of
situations such as sunsets, general night
views or fireworks.
LANDSCAPE**(
)
Select this to shoot distant subjects clearly.
This setting also prevents your camcorder
from focusing on glass or metal mesh in
windows that comes in between the
camcorder and the subject.
• Items with one asterisk (
*
) are adjusted to focus
on subjects only a short distance away. Items
with two asterisks (
**
) are adjusted to focus on
subjects farther away.
• The setting returns to [AUTO] when you set the
POWER switch to OFF (CHG) for more than 12
hours.
You can adjust the color balance to the
brightness of the recording environment.
B
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 (
n
)
The white balance is adjusted to be
appropriate for the following recording
conditions:
– Indoors
– At party scenes or studios where the lighting
conditions change quickly
– Under video lamps in a studio, or under
sodium lamps or incandescent-like color
lamps
ONE PUSH (
)
The white balance will be adjusted
according to the ambient light.
1
Touch [ONE PUSH].
2
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.
3
Touch [
].
flashes quickly. When the white
balance has been adjusted and stored in
the memory, the indicator stops
flashing.
•Do not shake your camcorder 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].
• If you changed the battery pack, or moved your
camcorder to or from outdoors when [AUTO]
was selected, aim your camcorder at a nearby
white object with [AUTO] 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.
• Set [WHITE BAL.] to [AUTO] or adjust the
color in [ONE PUSH] under white or cool white
fluorescent lamps.
• The setting returns to [AUTO] when you set the
POWER switch to OFF (CHG) for more than 12
hours.
When you set [COLOR SLOW S] to [ON],
you can record an image brighter in color
even in dark places.
appears on the screen.
To cancel [COLOR SLOW S], touch
[OFF].
• Adjust the focus manually ([FOCUS], p. 94)
when it is hard to focus automatically.
WHITE BAL. (White
balance)
COLOR SLOW S (Color
Slow Shutter)
