Notes: AUTOMATIC TRACKING WHITE
" For white balance setting aim the camera at aBALANCE SETTING (ATW)
white object and try to position it in the center of
the monitor screen. The object must appear inWhite balance will be automatically set to continuously
match changes of light source and color temperature
over 10 % of the total monitor screen area. Trywhile the white balance setting is set to ATW.
to avoid overly bright objects in the scene.Note:White balance may not be accurately set if there
" White balance may not be correctly set if theis no white object in the scene being shot.
lighting of the object is too weak.
The white object must occupy over MANUAL WHITE BALANCE SETTING
10 % of the monitor screen area.
[ADJUSTMENT by CAMERA]
Manual setting is possible in USER MODE only.
1. Select the white balance mode either AWC A or
AWC B by menu.
2. Aim the camera at a large white object. Press the
Item/AWC switch for over 2 second.
3. Adjust the red gain/blue gain control in the PAINT-
" Since the camera has a built-in memory, the setING item of Color Set sub menu of USER MODE
white balance will remain in the memory even ifuntil the carrier wave of the white portion of the
power is turned off. Therefore, it is not neces-video signal is at the minimum width or the white
sary to reset the white balance if the color tem-object in the monitor screen appears pure white.
(Use an oscilloscope or a waveform monitor for pre-
perature of those objects remains unchanged.cise adjustment.)
However, it must be reset if the color tempera-
ture changes, such as when you move from
indoors to outside, or vice versa.[ADJUSTMENT with the RCU (RCB)]
" When the camera is used without a RCU orAfter AWC setting, adjust the R/B GAIN controller in the
RCB red/blue gain adjustment of painting set-same way as described in Step 3 above.
ting will be automatically reset to ?0 after set-
ting the white balance. (painting setting in only
USER MODE.)
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