Spot Meter; White Bal - Sony Handycam DCR-HC85E Operation Manual

SPOT METER

EXPOSURE

WHITE BAL.

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Using the Menu
* Your camcorder is adjusted to focus only on subjects in the middle to far distance.
**Your camcorder is adjusted to focus only on distant subjects.
Note
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• [SPORTS] (sports lesson) will not work when the POWER switch is set to CAMERA-
MEMORY.
See page 37 for details.
See page 37 for details.
You can adjust the color balance to the brightness of the recording environment.
G AUTO Select when you want to record with the white balance adjusted
automatically.
OUTDOOR ( ) • Select when recording a sunset/sunrise, general night views, neon
signs, or fireworks.
• Select when under daylight fluorescent lamps.
INDOOR (n) • Select when recording at a party or in studios where lighting
conditions change quickly.
• Select when under video lamps such as those in a studio, under
sodium lamps, mercury lamps or warm white fluorescent lamps.
ONE PUSH ( ) Select when you want to record with the white balance adjusted
according to the ambient light.
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b Note
• Do not shake your camcorder while
• When
could not be set.
• If
[WHITE BAL.] to [AUTO].
Select [ONE PUSH].
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.
Touch [ ].
flashes quickly.
When the white balance has been adjusted and stored in
the memory, the indicator stops flashing.
flashes slowly, the white balance has not been set, or
keeps flashing even after you have touched
is flashing quickly.
, set