Setting The White Balance - Canon DC20 Instruction Manual

Setting the White Balance

You can choose one of the preset settings to reproduce colors more accurately, or set a
custom white balance to obtain the setting best suited to your specific recording
conditions.
AUTO
DAYLIGHT
SHADE
CLOUDY
TUNGSTEN
FLUORESECENT
FLUORESCENT H
SET
White sheet or paper
(if you select
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1. Set the camcorder to a recording mode (
and move the mode switch to
2. Press the FUNC. button.
3. First, select (
column and then select (
4. If you select the custom white balance [
at a white object, zoom in until it fills the whole screen and press (
• Keep the camcorder zoomed at the white object until step 5 is completed.
• flashes and stops flashing when the adjustment is complete.
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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.
SET)
AUTO
) the current white balance symbol from the left side
) the desired option from the bottom bar.
Mode switch
Zoom lever
FUNC. button
Omni Selector
.
SET]: Point the camcorder
or )
).
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