Adjusting The White Balance Manually - Sony DCR-TRV8 Operating Instructions Manual

Xdjusting the white balance manually
You can manually adjust and set the white balance. This adjustment makes white
subjects look white and allows more natural color balance. Normally white balance is
automatically adjusted.
In the standby or recording mode, select the desired white balance mode in the MENU
settings, (p. 72)
The selected white balance indicator appears.
AUTO (Automatic white balance mode): no indication
HOLD (Hold mode): HOLD
OU TDOOR (Outdoor mode):
INDOOR (Indoor mode): ^
MENU
To return to the automatic white balance mode
Set WHT BAL to AUTO in the MENU settings.
Cases that you can obtain better results by adjusting the white balance manually
Examples of picture-taking
conditions
White balance
indicator
• If the lighting conditions, like those at a party, are changing.
• If the picture is being taken in a studio lit by TV lighting.
• If the subject is being lit by sodiunj- or mercury-vapor lamps.
• At night-time with neon or fireworks in the picture
• At sunrise or sunset
• Under daytime-fluorescent light
• If the subject or background is all the same color.
HOLD
If the picture is being taken in a studio iit by TV lighting
We recommend you to record in the indoor mode.
When you record under fluorescent lighting
Use the automatic white balcince or hold mode.
Your camcordgr may not adjust the white balance correctly in the indoor mode.
To record when lighting conditions change
• When you move from indoors to outdoors, or vice versa, or detach the battery for
replacement while recording in the automatic white balance mode, point your
camcorder at a white subject for about 10 seconds after setting the POWER switch to
CAMERA.
• When you move from indoors to outdoors, or vice versa, or change the PROGRAM
AE mode while recording in the hold mode, set the white balance to AUTO and reset
to HOLD after few seconds.
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