Home Video Hints: Pushing the Right Buttons
The presence and location of manual camcorder settings play an important role in video production.No matter how casual your interest in video, there are times you'll want to assert dominance over your camcorder by overriding some automatic setting. To do that, you have to know your basic controls and how to use them. In the misty dawn of the home video era (15 years ago), almost all these controls were buttons (or switches or sliders or rocker arms), so we still speak of camcorder "buttons" for convenience, though all too many manual controls are now buried in the branches of screen menu trees. So, unless you've memorized your entire owner's manual (a little humor there), come with us now on a pulse-quickening tour of camcorder controls.
Briefly, you want to be able to control the white balance, the exposure system, the lens, the viewfinder(s) and the electronic accessories or at least know how to do so should the need ever …
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