Service Menu Description; Basic Menu Operations; Service Menu Structure; Displaying The Service Menu - Sony PMW-EX1 Service Manual

3-2. SERVICE Menu Description

3-2-1. Basic Menu Operations

Basic Menu Operation
Press the MENU button to enter the menu mode.
Press the PICTURE PROFILE button, the MENU button,
or the STATUS button while the menu is displayed to
close the menu display. The menu display is closed when
the power is turned off.
1. Press the MENU button.
The system enters the menu mode.
For displaying the SERVICE menu, refer to section 3-
2-3 of this manual.
2. Press the arrow key to move the cursor to the desired
setting item and press the SEL/SET button.
Exiting the Menu Mode
Press the MENU button again.
The system exits the menu mode to return to the normal
camera mode.

3-2-2. SERVICE Menu Structure

The SERVICE menu consists of the three SERVICE
dedicated menus and the six ordinary SETUP menus for a
total of nine menus.
SERVICE menu types
Menu name Description
MAINTENANCE Adjustment of parameters
RPN CORRECT Operations regarding the RPN correction
INFORMATION Information display on the particular
PMW-EX1 and self-diagnostics.
The MAINTENANCE menu and the RPN CORRECT
menu can be operated in the CAMERA mode only.
PMW-EX1

3-2-3. Displaying the SERVICE Menu

. To display the SERVICE menu, press the CANCEL
button, the MENU button, and the JOG dial at the same
time.
Pressing the MENU button again closes the SERVICE
menu display.
. Once the SERVICE menu has been displayed, simply
pressing the MENU button displays the SERVICE menu
instead of the normal SETUP menu unless the power is
turned off.
3-3. SERVICE Menu Description

3-3-1. MAINTENANCE Menu

The MAINTENANCE menu enables setting for image
device and setting parameters that must be set uniquely to
each PMW-EX1 for correction of non-uniformity between
the respective lens characteristics.
1. Test Saw setting
. Test Saw setting enables the operator to select the Test
Saw signal instead of the imager output signal when
recording or outputting images in CAMERA mode.
2. Executing Auto Black Balance
. Executing the Auto Black Balance triggers the auto
black balance adjustment (automatic black level adjust-
ment).
. When the Auto Black Balance menu is selected, the
Execute and Cancel choices appear.
Selecting Execute starts Auto Black Balance.
. When the Auto Black Balance is executed, the execute
RPN automatic detection.
n
Auto Black Balance cannot be executed from the SER-
VICE menu under the following settings.
Change the settings to execute Auto Black Balance.
. When Video Format other than HQ 1080/60i or HQ
1080/50i is selected.
. When electronic shutter is operating in the SLS mode.
. When the EX Slow Shutter is set to ON.
3-3