On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 03:32:16 +0000, Dean Tran wrote:

[...]
>I sometimes wonder, if they can calibrate camcorder
>to adjust color, like like they do it all the time with TV.
[...]

Well, the answer is yes, though you may or may not get
what you want... The TRV-900 I looked at was quite blue.
A trip to Sony resulted in its being less blue (sometimes
magenta...) - an improvement. Currently, this TRV-900
looks a bit more neutral outdoors than my two matching
VX-1000's (which are a bit warm, but nice), and still a
bit cool under tungsten light - but far more accurate than
the yellow-green balance of my VX-1000's (using the
color bias in the custom controls didn't help, since
the color seems to move along a green-red axis, and what
is needed was blue... (??? - often in very low tungsten light
the color is too red, so, who knows...? [and the
other day, the color indoors in daytime at a memorial
service was sometimes too blue... ;-]). Using the
presets or manually white-balancing sometimes helps,
but sometimes the light color is changing too much/often
for this to be useful. I used to think my VX-1000's
had pretty good overall color balance, but I may be
changing my mind... (I still have some complaints
about the TRV-900 rendering of sky blue though. Gosh,
if Panasonic could keep the good color of the EZ30U's
I tried, plus make a good stabilizer, they might have
something...;-) Time to stop rambling, and go to bed...