Sony DCR-PC109 - Manual (Page 66)

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* Your camcorder is adjusted to focus only on subjects in the middle to far distance.
**Your camcorder is adjusted to focus only on distant subjects.
b Note
• [SPORTS] (sports lesson) will not work when the POWER switch is set to CAMERA-
MEM.
SPOT METER
See page 38 for details.
EXPOSURE
See page 39 for details.
WHITE BAL.
You can adjust the color balance to the brightness of the recording environment.
b Notes
• You cannot use the white balance together with the NightShot plus or Super NightShot plus
function.
• The setting returns to [AUTO] when you disconnect the power source from your camcorder
for more than 5 minutes.
G AUTO Select when you want to record with the white balance adjusted
automatically.
OUTDOOR ( ) • Select when recording a sunset/sunrise, general night views, neon
signs, or fireworks.
• Select when under daylight fluorescent lamps.
INDOOR ( n ) • Select when recording at a party or in studios where lighting
conditions change quickly.
• Select when under video lamps such as those in a studio, under
sodium lamps, mercury lamps or warm white fluorescent lamps.
ONE PUSH ( ) Select when you want to record with the white balance adjusted
according to the ambient light.
1
Select [ONE PUSH].
2 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.
3
Touch [ ].
flashes quickly.
When the white balance has been adjusted and stored in
the memory, the indicator stops flashing.
b Notes
• Do not shake your camcorder while is flashing quickly.
• When flashes slowly, the white balance has not been set, or
could not be set.
• If keeps flashing even after you have touched , set
[WHITE BAL.] to [AUTO].