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Adjusting the Black Balance and the White Balance
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Chapter 3 Adjustments and Settings for Shooting
following figure, and the adjustment setting
is automatically stored in the memory (A or
B) that was selected in step 1.
Note
If the camera has a zoom lens with an automatic iris,
the iris may hunt
1)
during the adjustment. To
prevent this, adjust the iris gain knob (indicated as
IG, IS, or S) on the lens.
For details, refer to the lens operation manual.
1)Hunting: Repeated brightening and darkening of
the image, resulting from repeated response to
automatic iris control.
If the automatic white balance adjustment
cannot be made
If the white balance adjustment cannot be
completed normally, an error message will appear
for about 3 seconds on the viewfinder screen.
Possible messages are listed below.
If any of the above error messages is displayed,
retry the white balance adjustment. If the error
message occurs again, an internal check is
necessary.
For information about this internal check, refer to
the Maintenance Manual.
If you have no time to adjust the white
balance
Set the WHITE BAL switch to PRST.
This makes it possible to automatically set the
white balance to 5600K (factory default value) by
pressing the COLOR TEMP. button.
The color temperature to which the white balance
is set when the COLOR TEMP. button is pressed
can be selected from among 3200K, 4300K,
5600K, and 6300K on the ASSIGNABLE SW
page of the OPERATION menu. You can also
assign color temperatures to the ASSIGN 1/3/4
switches and the RET button on the lens.
For details of automatic white balance adjustment,
see page 56.
To change the color temperature when
the ND filter is switched
You can assign electrical CC (color correction)
filters to ND filters (see page 17). This allows you
AWB:OK
. K
Approximate color temperature
of the subject
Error message Meaning
WHITE : NG
LOW LEVEL
The white video level is
too low. Either open the
lens iris or increase the
gain.
WHITE : NG
COLOR TEMP
HIGH
The color temperature is
too high.
WHITE : NG
COLOR TEMP LOW
The color temperature is
too low.
WHITE : NG
TIME LIMIT
Adjustment could not be
completed within the
standard number of
attempts.
WHITE : NG
POOR WHITE
AREA
The white area could not
be checked.
WHITE : NG
OVER LEVEL
The white video level is
too high. Either stop down
the lens iris or change the
ND filter.