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Posted by Ray S on 04/05/07 17:31
AnthonyR. wrote:
> Richard Amirault wrote:
>> "Gene E. Bloch" wrote ...
>>> I would be willing to bet (OK, maybe only a nickel) that your
>>> camcorder has custom white balance, but I'm too lazy right now to
>>> download the manual and find out for myself.
>>>
>>> Although that's not called manual, it does give a comparable capability.
>>
>> I have a Sony Digital 8 that *only* has automatic color balance. My
>> Sony Mini-DV has adjustable white balance.
>>
>> For the original poster ... What kind of circumstances are you
>> shootiing? What is the color of the subject? What is the color of the
>> background? What kind of room? Daytime? Nighttime? Windows? Are the
>> lightbulbs all the same type (mixed incandesant / flourescant?)
>>
>
> Richard, when you say the camera has automatic white balance, what do
> you mean? How does it balance it? How do you tell it what is white?
> And if it's automatic, how does it do it?
> Usually, every camera I've ever owned even the cheapest, let's you point
> to a white object and hit a button so it can adjust to that being white.
Consumer grade cameras typically have an "Auto" setting. Meaning you
simply point and shoot. It takes care of focus and attempts to make a
guess on exposure and balance.
I don't know how many of todays consumer camcorders have a manual white
balance setting. They will have settings for various
environments....Sports Mode, Sunset Mode, Incandescent Mode and such but
a real pull our your while card and balance may be disappearing from the
lower price units.
> Does your manual in the Sony Digital 8 explain how it can possible
> determine a white subject on it's own (automatically)?
> It might have settings for daylight, tungsten, florescent etc...I can
> understand that, but auto, how?
>
I have an older Sony D8 unit that has no manual white balance, but does
have about half a dozen environment settings to go along with its
general - lets make a guess - full auto. How does it do it? I read
somewhere that it was elves inside the camera, but, what would they eat?
Tape sometimes, but that can't be all the nourishing.
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