Sony HANDYCAM DCR-SR40 Handbook page 52

EXPOSURE
You can fix the brightness of an image
manually. When recording indoors on a clear
day, for example, you can avoid backlight
shadows on people next to the window by
fixing the exposure to that of the wall side of
the room.
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EXPOSURE: MANUAL
1 Touch [MANUAL].
appears.
2 Adjust the exposure by touching
/ .
3 Touch .
To return the setting to automatic exposure,
touch [AUTO] t
• The setting returns to [AUTO] after you remove
the power source for more than five minutes.
WHITE BAL. (White balance)
You can adjust the color balance to the
brightness of the recording environment.
B AUTO
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 MANUAL
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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 the video lamps of those at 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 [ ].
flashes quickly. When the white
balance has been adjusted and stored in
the memory, the indicator stops flashing.
• Keep framing white object while
flashing quickly.
• flashes slowly if white balance could
not be set.
• keeps flashing even after you have
touched , set [WHITE BAL.] to
[AUTO].
• When you have changed the battery pack while
[AUTO] is selected, or you bring your camcorder
outdoors from inside the house while using fixed
exposure, select [AUTO] 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 during the [ONE PUSH] is set to on.
• Set [WHITE BAL.] to [AUTO] or [ONE PUSH]
under white or cool white fluorescent lamps.
• The setting returns to [AUTO] after you remove
the power source for more than five minutes.
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