Color Temperature (White Balance); Adjustment; Brightness/Contrast Adjustment; Manual Adjustment - Sony BVM-F170 Operation Manual

Note
You can access manual adjustment without opening the
Adjustment menu. To access it, press the MANUAL button
located below the CHROMA or PHASE knob of the
controller. If manual adjustment is accessed by this
method, the adjusted value is common to all channels and
valid only when the lamp of the MANUAL button is lit. To
turn off the lamp of the MANUAL button, press the button
again.

Color Temperature (White Balance)

Adjustment

This monitor is equipped with manual and automatic color
temperature adjustments.
The automatic color temperature adjustments can be
performed using the built-in color sensor or a specified
color temperature probe.
Special software is required for the automatic adjustment
using the specified probe. For details, contact your Sony
representative.
Automatic adjustment (using the built-in
color sensor)
1
Select the Auto Adjust menu (page 43) in the Color
Temp Adj menu of the Adjustment menu.

Manual adjustment

1
Select the Manual menu (page 42) in the Color Temp
Adj menu of the Adjustment menu then select the
Manual Adjust menu.
2
Adjust the color in gain side with the PHASE,
CHROMA, BRIGHT or CONTRAST knob.
3
Press the UP or DOWN button and adjust the color in
bias side with the PHASE, CHROMA, BRIGHT or
CONTRAST knob.
4
Press the UP or DOWN button.
5
Repeat steps 2 to 4 until the desired color is obtained,
because the gain and bias adjustments may affect each
other.
6
Press the ENTER or Ent button.
The adjusted data are confirmed.
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Adjusting

Brightness/Contrast Adjustment

As an image on a color video monitor is seen differently
according to the ambient light (environmental brightness),
adjust the brightness (black level) according to the ambient
light and the black level of the image to be reproduced and
adjust the contrast (white level) according to the ambient
light.
Adjust the brightness/contrast with an external reference
signal of a multi format color-bar signal or SMPTE color-
bar signal.
1
Input the multi format color-bar signal or SMPTE
color-bar signal to the monitor.
The following are explained as the example when the
multi format color-bar signal is used for adjustment.
2
Select the Manual Adjust menu (page 41) in the Picture
Adj menu of the Adjustment menu.
3
Adjust the –2%, 0% and +2% ranges or the 0%, +2%
and +4% ranges of the PLUGE signal section of the
color-bar with the BRIGHT knob.
HD signal
Adjust so that the –2% and 0% ranges are seen as equal
and the +2% and 0% ranges are more distinctive.
SD signal
Adjust so that the 0% and +2% ranges are seen as equal
and the +2% and +4% ranges are more distinctive.
4
Adjust so that the luminance of the 100% white signal
of the color-bar is set to the desired value with the
CONTRAST knob.
We recommend adjusting the luminance to 100 [cd/
2
m ] when Preset1 to Preset5 is selected in the Picture
Preset menu of the Channel Configuration menu.
SD SD SD
HD
+4%
0%
-2% +2%
0%