Sony Handycam HDR-HC9 Operating Manual page 44

.. CAMERA SET
menu
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~AUTO
The white balance is adjusted
automatically.
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OUTDOOR (~,,~)
The white balance is appropriately
adjusted for the following recording
conditions:
- Outdoors
- Night views, neon signs and fireworks
- Sunrise
or
sunset
- Under daylight fluorescent lamps
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Tips
• If you have changed the battery pack while
[AUTO] was selected, or taken your camcorder
outdoors after inside use (or vice versa), select
[AUTO] and aim your camcorder at a nearby
white object for about 10 seconds for better
color balance adjustment.
• When the white balance has been set with [ONE
PUSH], if you change the [SCENE SELECT]
settings, or bring your camcorder outdoors from
inside the house, or vice versa, you need to redo
the [ONE PUSH] procedure to readjust the
white balance.
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You can adjust the sharpness of the image
outline with
~/[±].
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appears when
the sharpness is anything other than the
default setting.
INDOOR
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The white balance is appropriately
adjusted for the following recording
conditions:
- Indoors
- At party scenes or studios where the lighting
conditions change quickly
- Under video lamps in a studio,
or
under
sodium lamps or incandescent-like color
lamps
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ONE PUSH
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The white balance will be adjusted
according to the ambient light.
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Touch [ONE PUSH].
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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.
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Touch
[~
•
...d].
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•...d
flashes quickly. When the white
balance has been adjusted and stored in
the memory, the indicator stops
flashing.
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• Set [WHITE BAL.] to [AUTO] or adjust the
color in [ONE PUSH] under white or cool white
fluorescent lamps.
• When you select [ONE PUSH], keep framing
white objects while
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•
...d
is flashing quickly.
•
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flashes slowly if [ONE PUSH] could not
be set.
• When [ONE PUSH] was selected, if
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•
...d
keeps
flashing after touching
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set [WHITE
BAL.] to [AUTO].
• If you set [WHITE BAL.], [SCENE SELECT]
returns to [AUTO).
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You can manually adjust and fix the shutter
speed for your convenience. Depending on
the shutter speed, you can make the subject
look still, or emphasize movement of the
subject.
~AUTO
Select to adjust the shutter speed
automatically.
MANUAL(Q))
Adjust the shutter speed using
~/
[±].
You can select a shutter speed between
1/4
and
1/10000
second when the POWER
switch is set to CAMERA-TAPE, and
between 1/4 and 1/500 second when the
POWER switch is set to CAMERA-
MEMORY.
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