Selecting The Shutter Mode And Speed; Setting The Electronic Shutter - Sony HDC3300 Operation Manual

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Adjust the lens iris opening.

With a manually adjusted lens: Set the opening to an

appropriate value.

With a lens which has automatic iris control: Set the

lens' automatic/manual iris control switch to

automatic.

Push the AWB (auto white balance) button of the

RCPor MSU.

When the DISPLAY switch is set to the DISPLAY

position, a message like the one in the figure below

will be displayed on the viewfinder screen during

adjustment.

AWB:EXECUTING

After a few seconds the adjustment process will be

complete, and the message "AWB: OK" will be

displayed. The adjusted value is automatically stored

in memory.

Note

When using a zoom lens with automatic iris control

capability, hunting

may occur. Adjust the lens' iris gain

control (labeled IG, IS, S, etc.).

1) Hunting: The automatic iris responds over and over, and the image

repeatedly darkens and lightens.

For more information, refer to the lens' operation manual.

When automatic white balance adjustment fails

If the white balance adjustment process does not end

successfully, the error message "AWB: NG" will be

displayed on the viewfinder screen for approximately three

seconds.

If this error message is displayed, try white balance

adjustment again.

If the error message continues to be displayed after several

attempts, the camera requires internal inspection.

Setting the Electronic Shutter

This section explains the shutter modes and speeds which

can be used for the electronic shutter of this camera.

Note

The SHUTTER switch of this camera does not function.

Use a remote control device, RCP or MSU.

About the shutter modes

The shutter modes that can be used with the electronic

shutter of the camera and the shutter speeds that may be

selected are as follows:

As this product is a super-slow-motion camera of 3-times

speed, the selected shutter speed in effect becomes one-

third, and the ECS frequency becomes 3 times.

Shutter modes and speeds

Shutter

Shutter speeds

mode

Standard

100, 1/125, 1/250,

1/500, 1/1000, 1/2000

second

ECS (Extended

60.0 Hz to 4300 Hz

Clear Scan)

1) The values in the table are those with 1080/59.94i. With other formats, the

available values may be different.

Note

With artificial lighting, particularly fluorescent lights and

mercury vapor lamps, the brightness appears to be

constant, but in fact the strength of the red, green, and blue

components varies with the power supply frequency. This

phenomenon is known as "flicker." When using the

electronic shutter under these lighting conditions, there are

certain cases in which the flicker is more noticeable.

The HDCU3300 to be used with this camera has a flicker-

reduction function. If flicker is noticeable, set it to ON.