Posted by Richard Amirault on 04/10/07 00:33

"AnthonyR."
> Richard, when you say the camera has automatic white balance, what do you
> mean?

I meant just what I said. There is NO option for color balance on this
camera (Sony TRV-240)

> How does it balance it? How do you tell it what is white?
> And if it's automatic, how does it do it?

Hmmm ... How am I supposed to know that?

> 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.
>

Yes, I have cameras like that. THIS camera does NOT have that option.

> 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?
>
It has NO settings for ANYTHING in the color balance department.

I have footage where I re-aimed the camera during a continuous shoot from a
person at a podium to an LCD projector screen and you can see the camera
adjust the color balance after a second or two.

PS. This camera is not a bare bones model. I have a manual focus ring (not
mechanically coupled to the lens, but it works) and I have a jack for an
external mic (which I use *often*)
--
Richard Amirault, Boston, MA, USA
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