Sony Handycam DCR-HC26 Operating Manual page 38

Operation button items (Continued)
EXPOSURE
You can fix the brightness of a picture
manually. When recording indoors on a
clear day, for instance, you can avoid
backlight shadows on people next to the
window by fixing the exposure to that of
the wall side of the room.
MANU–
1
2
1 Touch [MANUAL].
appears.
2 Adjust the exposure by touching
.
To return the setting to automatic exposure,
touch [ AUTO].
• You can adjust [EXPOSURE] and [FADER]
while using the viewfinder by having the LCD
panel rotated 180 degrees and closed with the
screen facing out (p. 37).
• The setting returns to [
turn the power off for more than 12 hours.
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WHT BAL (White balance)
You can adjust the color balance to the
brightness of the recording environment.
AUTO
B
The white balance is adjusted
automatically.
OUTDOOR (
The white balance is adjusted to be
appropriate for the following recording
conditions:
– Outdoors
– Night views, neon signs and fireworks
– Sunrise or sunset
– Under daylight fluorescent lamps
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AUTO OK
AL
EXPOSURE
AUTO] when you
)
INDOOR (n)
The white balance is adjusted to be
appropriate for the following recording
conditions:
– Indoors
– At party scenes or studios where the lighting
conditions change quickly
– Under video lamps in a studio, or under
sodium lamps or incandescent-like color
lamps
ONE PUSH (
The white balance will be adjusted
according to the ambient light.
1 Touch [ONE PUSH].
2 Frame a white object such as a piece of
paper, to fill the screen under the same
lighting conditions as you will shoot
the subject.
/
3 Touch
balance has been adjusted and stored in
the memory, the indicator stops
flashing.
•Do not shake your camcorder while
is flashing quickly.
•
could not be set.
•If
have touched
to [
• If you have changed the battery pack while [
AUTO] is selected, taken your camcorder
outdoors or brought it indoors after outside use
while using fixed exposure, select [
and aim your camcorder at a nearby white
object for about 10 seconds for better color
balance adjustment.
• Redo the [ONE PUSH] procedure if you change
the [PROGRAM AE] settings, or bring your
camcorder outdoors from inside the house, or
vice versa.
• Set [WHT BAL] to [
PUSH] under white or cool white fluorescent
lamps.
• The setting returns to [
turn the power off for more than 12 hours.
)
.
flashes quickly. When the white
flashes slowly if white balance
keeps flashing even after you
, set [WHT BAL]
AUTO].
AUTO] or [ONE
AUTO] when you
AUTO]