White balance, Handycam" user guide – Sony HDR-CX290 User Manual

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"Handycam" User Guide

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Before use

Getting started

Recording

Playback

Playing images on a TV

Saving images with an external
device

Customizing your camcorder

Troubleshooting

Maintenance and precautions

Contents list

Top page > Customizing your camcorder > Camera/Mic > White Balance

White Balance

You can adjust the color balance to the recording environment.

1.

[Camera/Mic]

[

Manual Settings]

[White Balance].

2. Select the desired setting.

(Auto)

The white balance is adjusted automatically.

If you have changed the battery pack while [Auto] was selected, or taken your camcorder outdoors

after inside use (or vice versa), aim your camcorder at a nearby white object for about 10 seconds

for better color balance adjustment.

(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

(Indoor)

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

(One Push)

The white balance will be adjusted according to the ambient light.

Select [

].

Keep framing white object such as a piece of paper, to fill the screen under the same lightning

conditions as you will shoot the subject.

Select [

].

If the lighting conditions changed by bringing 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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