Studio Environment; One Touch Colour Balance (Illustration 10) - Polaroid Digital Mini Portrait User Manual

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sharpening (5u), Red, Green & Blue (5v),
Brightness, contrast, & colour saturation
(5w) or strobe output (5x).

3.2 Studio Environment

The DMP can be used with studio lights
through either the x-sync connection (1q,
5z) or by using DMP as a trigger strobe
(5y). The DMP colour temperature has
been preset to 5400K. If you do not know
the colour temperature of your studio light-
syou can use the one push colour balance
(see section 3.3). The colour temperature
menu allows you to optimise the DMP to
match your lighting conditions as follows:
a Enter the main menu by pressing the menu
on/off button (1e). You will see the main
menu displayed on screen.
b Use the arrow buttons (1f) to scroll down
to the Toolbox icon (5e). Press OK (1g).
c Use the arrow buttons (1f) to highlight the
colour temperature icon (5s) and press OK
(1g).
d In the colour temperature menu, use the
arrow buttons (1f) to highlight either the
one touch colour balance icon (5aa) or the
colour temperature icon (5ab) and press
the OK button (1g).
e Selecting the colour temperature icon (5ab)
allows you to select a pre-set colour tem-
perature to suit your particular lighting set
up (if known).
f The procedure for using the one touch
colour balance icon (5aa) is defined below.

3.3 One touch colour balance (illustration 10)

Use the one touch colour balance if you do
not know the colour temperature of your
lighting set up or you are unsatified with
the existing colour balance use the one
touch colour balance for calibration.
Warning, the operation of the one touch
colour balance requires that an image be
captured. This captured image will over-
write the active memory buffer.
a From the colour temperature menu (5s),
select the one touch colour balance icon
(5aa) as described in the previous section.
b A live preview will be displayed with an
overlay consisting of a black rectangle
used to frame the grey card. In the top left:
an icon indicating the currently selected
flash mode (on-board, slave or X-sync).In
the top right & bottom right: two arrows
indicating the effect of moving the green
indicator line (which is only displayed in
capture mode):
Towards the white arrow to lighten the
image
Towards the black arrow to darken the
image
In the bottom middle: an icon representing
the Menu in/out button.
In the bottom left: an icon indicating the
current action taken if the Menu button is
pressed:
If a "Back Arrow" icon is displayed, press-
ing the Menu button cancels the setting of
the colour balance. This is displayed in
live mode.
If a "Tick" icon is displayed, pressing the
menu button selects the calculated colour
balance. This is displayed in capture
mode.
c Position the grey card supplied where your
subject would be seated and zoom the
DMP in to completely fill the rectangle with
the grey card.
d Press the image capture button (1c) and
the captured image will be displayed on
screen. Two black horizontal lines and a sin-
gle green line will be displayed on the right
hand side of the screen. This green line indi-
cates the brightness of the captured image.
The aim is to get the green line to appear in-
between the two black lines. The one touch
icon will now also be displayed in the top cen-
tre of the screen.
e Pressing the image capture button (1c)
again will return to live preview. Whilst in
"live" mode, make any adjustments to the