Customizing The Picture Quality (Picture Profile) - Sony Handycam HDR-FX7 Operating Instructions Manual

The display changes.
t (OUTDOOR) t n
(INDOOR)
Indicator Shooting conditions
A • White balance values
(MEMORY A)
B
(MEMORY B)
• Recording a sunset/
(
Outdoor)
• Under daylight color
• Under the lighting
n
(Indoor)
• Under strong light
• Under sodium lamps
z Tip
• The white balance can be stored temporarily by
setting the AUTO LOCK switch A to HOLD
after the manual adjustment.
To save the adjusted white balance
value in memory A or B
1 Select A or
3 of "Adjusting to Natural Color (White
Balance)."
2 Shoot something white (such as a sheet
of paper) full-screen under the same
lighting conditions as the subject.
3 Press the SEL/PUSH EXEC dial C.
Pressing the dial switches between
blinking A and
When the white balance is adjusted,
A or B stops blinking and remains
on. The adjusted value is now saved in
the selected A or
A t B
adjusted for light
sources can be stored
in memory A and
memory B. Follow the
steps below
sunrise, just after
sunset, just before
sunrise, neon signs, or
fireworks.
fluorescent lamps
condition that changes
quickly
such as in a
photography studio
or mercury lamps
B according to step
B.
B memory.
To restore the automatic white
balance
Press the WHT BAL button B, or set the
AUTO LOCK switch A to AUTO LOCK.
b Notes
• If you set the AUTO LOCK switch A to
AUTO LOCK, other manually adjusted items
(iris, gain, shutter speed) also become
temporarily automatic.
• The setting returns to automatic adjustment
when you set the POWER switch to OFF (CHG)
for more than 12 hours.
Customizing the picture quality
(Picture profile)
C B
You can customize the picture quality by
adjusting [COLOR LEVEL],
[SHARPNESS], etc. You can set 6 different
picture quality settings depending on the
recording time of day, the weather, or the
camera person, and store them in the
memory.
Connect your camcorder to a TV or
monitor, and adjust the picture quality
while observing the picture on the TV or
monitor screen.
At the default setting, [PP1] through [PP6]
are registered with picture quality settings
for the following recording conditions.
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