81) function, White bal. (white balance), Color slow shtr (color slow shutter) – Sony HDR-CX12 User Manual
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Customizing your camcorder
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WHITE BAL. (White balance)
You can adjust the color balance to the
brightness of the recording environment.
AUTO
The white balance is adjusted
automatically.
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.
Touch [ONE PUSH].
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.
Touch [
].
flashes quickly. When the white
balance has been adjusted and stored
in the memory, the indicator stops
flashing.
Notes
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 object while
is flashing quickly.
flashes slowly if [ONE PUSH] could not be
set.
When [ONE PUSH] was selected, if
keeps
flashing after touching
, set [WHITE BAL.]
to [AUTO].
When you set [WHITE BAL.], [SCENE
SELECTION] is set to [AUTO].
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
SELECTION] 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.
COLOR SLOW SHTR
(Color Slow Shutter)
When you set [COLOR SLOW SHTR] to
[ON], appears, and you can record an
image brighter in color even in dark places.
To cancel, touch [OFF].
Notes
Adjust the focus manually ([FOCUS], p. 79)
when it is hard to focus automatically.
The shutter speed of your camcorder changes
depending on the brightness, which may result
in a slowdown of the motion of the image.
SUPER NIGHTSHOT
The image will be recorded at a
maximum of 16 times the sensitivity of
NightShot recording if you set [SUPER
NIGHTSHOT] to [ON] while the
NIGHTSHOT switch (p. 28) is also set to
ON.
appears on the screen.
To cancel, touch [OFF].