Advanced Operations; Tracking A Subject Automatically - Sony EVI-D30 Operating Instructions Manual

Advanced Operations

Tracking a Subject
Automatically
—AT (Auto target tracking) function
You can have the camera memorize certain color
and brightness so that it automatically tracks a
subject having the memorized color and brightness.
4
CHASE
DATA SCREEN
1
Press the AT ON/OFF button to enter
into the AT setting mode.
The frame and setting value appear.
AT MODE
SETTING
CHASE 1
2
Press the arrow button to perform the
pan/tilt operation so that a subject is
placed into the frame.
Be sure to
AT MODE
place the
SETTING
subject so
that the
portion
uniform in
brightness
and color
CHASE 1
is in the
frame.
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1
AT ON/OFF
AE
AUTO ZOOM
FRAME DISPLAY
3
START/STOP
2
P-T DRIVE
ENTRY1
32
Frame
The larger
P-T DRIVE
the value
ENTRY1
is, the
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more
easily the
camera
recognizes
the
subject.
Example of the case when a subject is
hardly recognized
AT MODE P-T DRIVE
SETTING ENTRY1
3
Press the START/STOP button to
activate the AT function.
Try moving the subject to see if the frame
tracks it automatically.
AT MODE
WORKING NOW
CHASE 1
When the frame tracks the subject,
proceed with the step 4.
When the frame does not track the
subject, repeat the step 3 until the frame
starts tracking the subject while adjusting the
lighting and the position of the subject so that
the color and brightness of the subject is
optimized. If the frame still does not track the
subject, see "If the subject cannot be
recognized or captured" on page 17.
4
Repeat pressing the CHASE button to
select a desired CHASE mode.
Each time that button is pressed, the mode is
cyclically changed as follows:
CHASE 1 CHASE 2
AT MODE
WORKING NOW
CHASE 2
The camera
might not
recognize a
subject if the
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portion different
from the subject
in brightness and
color, such as
the backdrop, is
placed together
in the frame.
CHASE 3