Selecting The Shutter Mode And Shutter Speed - Sony HDW-650 Operation Manual

Notes
• Whatever the operating mode of the electronic shutter,
the sensitivity of the CCD decreases with increasing
shutter speed.
• When the automatic iris is used, the iris opens wider as
the shutter speed increases, thus reducing the depth of
field.
• Under artificial light, particularly fluorescent or
mercury lamps, the light intensity may appear to be
constant, but the red, green, and blue intensities are
actually changing in synchronization with the
frequency of the power supply causing flicker. Using
an electronic shutter under such lighting could make
the flicker even worse. Color flicker is particularly
likely to happen when the power supply frequency is
60 Hz. However, if the power frequency is 50 Hz,
setting the shutter speed to 1/100 can reduce this
flicker.
• When a bright object is shot in ECS mode in such a
manner that it fills the screen, the upper edge of the
picture may have poor quality because of an inherent
characteristic of CCDs. Before using ECS mode, check
the shooting conditions.
Selecting the shutter mode and
shutter speed
Use the SHUTTER selector to select a shutter
mode or a standard-mode shutter speed. To set the
shutter speed in ECS/SLS mode, with the
SHUTTER selector set to ON and the ECS/SLS
mode selected, use the MENU knob for
adjustment.
You can use the SHT ENABLE page of the
OPERATION menu to narrow the range of
choice in advance.
Setting the shutter mode and standard-
mode shutter speed
Once the shutter speed is selected, it is retained
even when the camcorder power is turned off.
1
Follow the procedure described in
"Selecting the display items" on page
128 to set the VF DISPLAY MODE
item to 2 or 3 on the VF DISP 1 page of
the USER menu.
2
Flick the SHUTTER selector from ON
to SELECT.
SHUTTER selector
The current shutter setting indication appears
for about 3 seconds in the setting change and
adjustment progress message display area of
the viewfinder screen.
Examples: ": SHUTTER : 1/250", ": ECS :
60.00 Hz"
3
Before the shutter setting indication
disappears, flick the SHUTTER
selector down to SELECT again and
repeat this until the desired mode or
speed appears.
Pushing the SHUTTER selector down to
SELECT repeatedly allows you to cycle
through the settings of mode and speed
preselected on the SHT ENABLE page of the
OPERATION menu.
Note that all modes and all standard-mode
speeds listed in the table on page 50 are
preselected using the SHT ENABLE page of
the OPERATION menu.
By factory default, all available shutter
modes and shutter speeds are displayed in the
sequence shown in the following figure.
(You can use the SHT ENABLE page of the
OPERATION menu to make a setting so that
only the desired (or most frequently used)
modes and speeds are displayed.)
Standard mode
ECS mode
Shutter speeds in standard mode can also be
switched to angle display by using SHT DISP
MODE in the CAM CONFIG 2 page of the
MAINTENANCE menu.
Setting the Electronic Shutter
SLS mode
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