User's Guide

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• Gain
Use the «up» or «down» key to modify its value.
It can also be modified by using the direct access shortcut (see p. ).
• Color temp.
- Tungsten or Daylight. Selecting one or the other makes [3200K] or
[5600K] appear in the CT field of the Assitant’s control screen.
- Manual white This is directly activated by pressing the «set» then the
«right» key. To perform a manual white balance, put a piece of white paper
in front of the taking lens. If there’s too much light (or not enough), the mes-
sage Too bright or Too dark is displayed on the Assitant’s control screen.
White balance done, OK is displayed. [M-WB] appears in the CT field.
- Manual RGB (USER) currently opens access to the ‘User color temp’
line. Press the «set» key to display three RGB bargraphs, press the «up» or
«down» key to select one of them and press the «left» or «right» key to modify
the dB values. This lets you cope with 1800K to 7000K lighting conditions.
Press the «exit» key to validate. [M-RGB] appears in the CT field of the Assi-
tant’s control screen.
• Color saturation
A highly saturated image displays vivid colors, less saturated it appears as
greyish. Saturation goes up to 200% (factory: 160%).
• Color bars
These bars are useful to calibrate an NTSC monitor by tuning the color pha-
se setting while displaying the monitor’s blue only channel.
• Color/B&W out (Output).