Setting The White Balance - Canon optura50 Instruction Manual

Setting the White Balance

You can use the preset modes to reproduce colors more accurately, or set a custom white
balance to obtain the optimal setting.
(AUTO)
(DAYLIGHT)
(SHADE)
(CLOUDY)
(TUNGSTEN)
(FLUORESECENT)
(FLUORESCENT H)
(SET)
White sheet or paper
FUNC. button
SET dial
CAMERA
AUTO
( 57)
1. Set the mode dial to mode other than
2. Press the FUNC. button.
3. Select the white balance symbol followed by the setting option.
The symbol of the current setting is displayed.
4. When you have selected [
object, zoom in until it fills the whole screen and press the SET dial.
• Keep the camcorder zoomed at the white object until step 5 is completed.
• flashes and stops flashing when adjustment is complete.
Settings are automatically set by the camcorder.
For recording outdoors on a bright day.
For recording in shaded places.
For recording on a cloudy day.
For recording under tungsten and tungsten type (3-wavelength)
fluorescent lighting.
For recording under warm white, cool white or warm white type
(3-wavelength) fluorescent lighting.
For recording under daylight or daylight type (3-wavelength)
fluorescent lighting.
Use the custom white balance setting to make white subjects
appear white under colored lighting.
PLAY (VCR)
SET]: Point the camcorder at a white
CARD CAMERA
or .
E
Zoom lever
Mode dial
CARD PLAY
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