Panasonic NV-RX3A Operating Instructions Manual

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Lighting Conditionv___'■ White Balancein addition to sunlight, there are various kinds of electric lights in use today, such as incandescent lamps,fluorescent lamps, etc. The colour of the subject differs depending on the light that falls on it.•Human Eyescan easily adjust to different kinds of lighting and recognize an object as having the same colour, even underdifferent light.•Movie Camerasdo not have such an adaptability. Therefore, if the subject were recorded without any colour adjustment, thelighting would influence the colouring of the reproduced picture, giving it a bluish or reddish tint. To prevent this,an adjustment called “White Balance Adjustment” needs to be performed on the Movie Camera, eitherautomatically or manually.■ White Balance AdjustmentThis adjusts the Movie Camera to pure white under different lighting conditions. After white is set, the MovieCamera can compensate for the colour in the lighting and adjust the other colours accordingly. As white is thecombination of all colours (light), if white colour is correctly adjusted, recording scenes with natural colours ispossible under almost any lighting condition.■ Automatic White Balance AdjustmentTo provide natural colours in the most common lighting situations, this Movie Camera has optimum settings forthese conditions stored in memory. It determines the colour of the light entering through the lens as well asthrough the White Balance Sensor window and selects the matching colour setting from among the storedsettings. This function is called “Automatic White Balance Adjustment”.However, as the optimum settings of only several types of light sources are stored in memory, the AutomaticWhite Balance Adjustment does not work with sufficient precision in all conditions.In some cases, the Manual White Balance Adjustment should be used.36