Grass Valley LDK 500 - Manual (Page 56)

Operating instructions | Video preferences 4-17
Selecting the colour temperature
The up/down Colour temperature (White bal.) switch (8) on the left-front side of
the camera allows a choice between:
Three preset colour temperatures:
• 3200K (3.2K) - for studio lighting conditions
• 5600K (5.6K) - for outdoors, clouded conditions
• 7500K (7.5K) - for outdoors, clear blue skies
Three memory positions:
• FL- memory position for fluorescent light
• AW1 - memory position 1
• AW2 - memory position 2
An automatic continuous white position:
• AWC - continuous measurement (2.5K to 20K)
When the switch is first pressed, the viewfinder displays the current value. A new value
is chosen by scrolling up or down through the available values. The Colour
temperature indicators (34) in the viewfinder light to show which position is
selected. None of these indicators light when AWC is selected, but the Non-standard
indicator (33) lights.
The viewfinder also displays the actual value of a measured colour temperature. The
range of the auto-white balance is from 2.5K to 20K.
Auto-white balance
If the reference colour temperatures do not match your lighting conditions carry out
the auto-white procedure as follows:
1. Use the Colour temperature switch (8) to select one of the memory positions
FL, AW1 or AW2 in which to store the measured colour temperature value.
2. Press once on the White balance switch (15) at the front of the camera to
start the automatic white balance procedure. The following appears in the
viewfinder:
3. Point the camera so that the reference white surface is between the two small
white boxes.
ND/RE BATT TAPE REC ++ + -
! AW2 AW1 FL 7.5 5.6 3.2
AWHITE: window