Manual Focus Adjustment; White Balance - Canon VIXIA HF11 Instruction Manual

Manual Focus Adjustment

Autofocus may not work well on the
following subjects. In such case, focus
manually.
• Reflective surfaces
• Subjects with low contrast or without
vertical lines
• Fast moving subjects
• Through wet windows
• Night scenes
POINTS TO CHECK
Adjust the zoom before you start the
procedure.
1
If the joystick guide does not
appear on screen, press
display it.
If [FOCUS] does not appear on the
joystick guide, repeatedly push the
joystick ( ) toward [NEXT] to display
it.
2
Push the joystick (
[FOCUS].
"MF" appears.
3
Push the joystick (
to verify if the image is focused.
The center of the screen will be
magnified to help you focus more
easily. You can also turn off the focus
assist function (
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) or ( ) once
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4
Adjust ( ) the focus as
necessary.
5
Press .
• The focus will be locked.
• During focus lock, press
push the joystick (
[FOCUS] again to return the
camcorder to autofocus.
Infinity Focus
Use this function when you wish to
focus on faraway subjects such as
mountains or fireworks.
Instead of step 2 in the previous
procedure:
Push the joystick (
[FOCUS] and hold it for more than
2 seconds.
• appears.
• Push the joystick (
[FOCUS] again to return the
camcorder to autofocus.
• If you operate the zoom or joystick
( ), changes to "MF" and the
camcorder returns to manual focus.

White Balance

The white balance function helps you to
accurately reproduce colors under
different lighting conditions so that
white objects will always look truly
white in your recordings.
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