Sony PDW-F800 Operation Manual page 64

The white balance adjustment ends in about
one second with the message shown in the
following figure, and the adjustment setting
is automatically stored in the memory (A or
B) that was selected in step 1.
AWB:OK
Approximate color temperature
of the subject
Note
If the camera has a zoom lens with an automatic iris,
the iris may hunt
prevent this, adjust the iris gain knob (indicated as
IG, IS, or S) on the lens.
For details, refer to the lens operation manual.
1) Hunting: Repeated brightening and darkening of
the image, resulting from repeated response to
automatic iris control.
If the automatic white balance adjustment
cannot be made
If the white balance adjustment cannot be
completed normally, an error message will appear
for about 3 seconds on the viewfinder screen.
Possible messages are listed below.
64 Adjusting the Black Balance and the White Balance
. K
1)
during the adjustment. To
Error message Meaning
WHITE : NG The white video level is
LOW LEVEL too low. Either open the
lens iris or increase the
gain.
WHITE : NG The color temperature is
COLOR TEMP too high.
HIGH
WHITE : NG The color temperature is
COLOR TEMP LOW too low.
WHITE : NG Adjustment could not be
TIME LIMIT completed within the
standard number of
attempts.
WHITE : NG The white area could not
POOR WHITE be checked.
AREA
WHITE : NG The white video level is
OVER LEVEL too high. Either stop down
the lens iris or change the
ND filter.
If any of the above error messages is displayed,
retry the white balance adjustment. If the error
message occurs again, an internal check is
necessary.
For information about this internal check, refer to
the Maintenance Manual.
If you have no time to adjust the white
balance
Set the WHITE BAL switch to PRST.
For the PDW-700, this makes it possible to
automatically set the white balance to 5600K
(factory default value) by pressing the COLOR
TEMP. button.
The color temperature to which the white balance
is set when the COLOR TEMP. button is pressed
can be selected from among 3200K, 4300K,
5600K, and 6300K on the ASSIGNABLE SW
page of the OPERATION menu. You can also
assign color temperatures to the ASSIGN 1/3/4
switches and the RET button on the lens.
For details of automatic white balance adjustment,
see page 62.