Hitachi KP-E500 User Manual

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Setting White Balance mode

1) Press the SET button for longer than 2 seconds to display

the “MAIN MENU”.

2) Use the UP and DOWN buttons to shift the cursor to

“WHITE BALANCE”, then press the SET button to display
the “WHITE BALANCE MENU”. But, it does not move to
“WHITE BALANCE MENU” at the time of B/W image
condition by B/W MODE setting.












3) While the cursor is at “MODE”, press the SET button to shift

the mode in the sequence “ATW”, “AWC” and “MANUAL”.
Factory setting is “ATW”.

White Balance Menu [Only KP-DE500 type]

ATW (auto tracking white balance)

Ordinarily use this mode, which is suitable for lighting
color temperature from 2,500K to 8,000K.

Setting ATW Range (Color temperature flattery range)

1) Use the UP and DOWN buttons to shift the cursor to

“ATW RANGE”.

2) Press the SET button to shift the mode in the sequence

“NORMAL”, “SPECIAL”. Factory setting is “NORMAL”.

NORMAL :

From 2,500K to 8,000K

SPECAIL :

From 2,500K to 8,000K, and special

lighting such as the mercury lamp and
sodium vapor lamp










WHITE BALANCE MENU (MODE: ATW)

◆ WHITE BALANCE MENU ◆

>

MODE :ATW


ATW RANGE :NORMAL

WB AREA :OFF




RET
END



……

Select White Balance mode


……

ATW Range setting

……

Select WB area mode




……

Return to the main menu

……

End of menu display

NOTE
1) Please set “ATW RANGE” to the “SPECIAL” mode

when you use sodium lighting. The color
distinction becomes possible though the white
balance may not be completely suitable.

2) White balance cannot be fully adjusted in the

following situations.

Most of the scene is a single color or there is very

little white component.

Background is red or blue.

Setting WB detection area

1) Use the UP and DOWN buttons to shift the cursor to

“WB AREA”.

2) Press the SET button to shift the mode in the sequence

“OFF”, “ON(NO.*)”. [*1~9] Factory setting is “OFF”.
OFF

:

A

ll the screens

ON(NO.*) [*19] :

Only the selection area

3) When the display is turned “ON(NO.*), “AREA SELECT” is

displayed in the line in the under.

4) Shift the cursor to “AREA SELECT” and push the SET

button to display the detection area(WB) select menu.









AREA(WB)
NO.1


┏━━━━━━┓

┃ ┃
┃ ┃
┗━━━━━━┛


DETECTTION AREA (WB) SELECT MENU

Detect area position

6

5

4

2

1

3

7

8

9

5) There are 9 white detect areas selected by the UP and

DOWN buttons. Select the areas from nos. 1 to 9 that
include the subject of main interest. (Factory setting is NO.1)
UP button

: 1→2→3→4→5→6→7→8→9

(ascending order)

DOWN button : 9→8→7→6→5→4→3→2→1

(descending order)

6) After deciding the detection area, push the SET button to

return to the “WHITE BALANE MENU”.

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