Thanks for the video. I knew setting the white balance was easy, but the camera owner's manual does a terrible job explaining it. Finding the AWB button on the front below the where the lens attachment is, finally made it all so easy.
great video i use the HCX1 great cam once you learn operate manually mainly one proplem thou the LCD is not very good out side in sunlight mainly is so bad cant see the image properly so i bought a external monitor the Atomos ninji v very good brightness to see what your doing
Excellent video. I'm not sure why I can figure this out, but when in Manual mode, how do I set Gain to Auto? (i.e. AGC that I see in Auto mode)? The 'Gain' button, as far as i can tell just toggles between the low - mid - high modes.
Greetings - to manually set gain on UX90, use scroll wheel (or the LCD) and go to GAIN (other options will be Scene, Shutter (if auto shutter is off)0. Gain will be Yellow; push the scroll wheel in to select the Gain operation. Over to the far right on your LCD, the Db value will now turn yellow, indicating that you can now scroll up and down to pick your desired gain. Push the scroll wheel in again to "lock" this gain. The gain button on the side of the camera is a quick select feature - you go into menu and choose 3 levels of gain as desired.
Is it possible to use full auto on the camera and then somehow lock it so it doesnt change? Like turn it to auto and then to manual but keep all the settings from auto
There is a chance that some of the settings may lock in but that doesn’t mean the look will stay the same when you actively switch between auto and manual because specific settings may be dialed in on the manual mode that get recalled when switched to that setting. For example, the iris may remain constant but the shutter may change and both shutter and gain will inherently affect the brightness of the image even if the iris value stays constant. WB may also visibly shift when you change from auto to manual. I would suggest it is best to understand all of those features so that you know how they work together when in the auto mode. Then you can decide if it makes sense to use auto or not given your shooting scenario.
