Sony GDM-F520: Adjustments

Adjustments

Navigating the menu

Adjusting the picture quality

(PICTURE EFFECT)

1 Press the MENU button to display the main menu.

You can select the most appropriate picture mode from among 3

CONTRAST

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preset modes by pressing the PICTURE EFFECT button

repeatedly.

CONTRAST

MENU

,

x PROFESSIONAL

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For accurate and consistent display color. Choose this for

professional desktop publishing and graphic applications.

1024x768 / 85Hz

Main

Sub

x STANDARD

menu

menu

For images with high contrast and brightness. Choose this mode for

commonly used applications, such as spreadsheets, word

2 Move the control button m/M to highlight the main

processing, E-mail, or WEB surfing.

menu you want to adjust and press the control button.

x DYNAMIC

SZE

/I CENTER

For extremely vivid and photo-realistic images. Bright than

“STANDARD” mode, choose this for intense entertainment

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software such as games, or DVD playback.

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MENU

Main

Sub

menu

menu

3 Select the sub menu you want to adjust and press the

control button.

4 Adjust with the control button.

On-Screen menu adjustments

Main menu icons and adjustment

Sub menu icons and adjustment items

items

Adjusting the contrast and

Contrast

brightness

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Brightness

Horizontal position

Horizontal size

Adjusting the size or centering of

the picture

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Vertical position

Vert ical size

Auto Size Center

Rotating the picture

Expanding or contracting the picture sides

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Shifting the picture sides to the left or right*

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Adjusting the shape of the picture

Adjusting the picture width at the top of the screen*

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Shifting the picture to the left or right at the top of the screen*

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0 RESET: Returns all settings to their factory default settings.

Horizontally shifts red or blue shadows

Vertically shifts red or blue shadows

Adjusting the convergence

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T

Vertically shifts red or blue shadows at the top of the screen

B

Vertically shifts red or blue shadows at the bottom of the screen

0 RESET: Returns all settings to their factory default settings.

DEGAUSS: demagnetizes the monitor.

Adjusting the picture quality

CANCEL MOIRE: adjusts the degree of moire cancellation until the moire is at a minimum.

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LANDING: reduces any color irregularities in the screen’s top left corner to a minimum.*

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Example of Moire

LANDING: reduces any color irregularities in the screen’s top right corner to a minimum.*

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LANDING: reduces any color irregularities in the screen’s bottom left corner to a minimum.*

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LANDING: reduces any color irregularities in the screen’s bottom right corner to a minimum.*

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0 RESET: Returns all settings to their factory default settings.

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Main menu icons and adjustment

Sub menu icons and adjustment items

items

Adjusting the color of the picture See “ : To adjust the color of the picture”.

Protecting adjustment data (CONTROL LOCK)

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Selecting the on-screen menu language/Confirming the monitor’s information LANGUAGE/

INFORMATION

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Additional settings

Changing the menu’s position for horizontal adjustment

Changing the menu’s position for vertical adjustment

Selecting the color adjustment mode (See “ : To adjust the color of the picture.”)

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Resetting all the adjustment data for the current input signal.*

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Select “OK”.

0 Resetting the adjustments

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Resetting all of the adjustment data for all input signals. Select “OK”.

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4

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This adjustment is effective for the current input signal.

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Only the ! (power) switch, EXIT, and (CONTROL LOCK) menu

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This adjustment is effective for all input signals.

will operate.

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Language Menu

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The menu items , and are not reset by this method.

• ENGLISH • NEDERLANDS: Dutch

• FRANÇAIS: French • SVENSKA: Swedish

• DEUTSCH: German • : Russian

• ESPAÑOL: Spanish • : Japanese

• ITALIANO: Italian

: To adjust the color of the picture

To restore the color from the EASY, PRESET, or sRGB

modes ( IMAGE RESTORATION)

The COLOR settings allow you to adjust the picture’s color

You can restore the color to the original factory quality levels. Before using

temperature by changing the color level of the white color field.

this feature, the monitor must have been in normal operation mode (green

Colors appear reddish if the temperature is low, and bluish if the

power indicator on) for at least 30 minutes. You may need to adjust your

temperature is high. This adjustment is useful for matching the

computer’s power saving settings. If the monitor has not been on for at least

monitor’s color to a printed picture’s colors.

30 minutes, the “AVAILABLE AFTER WARM UP” message will appear.

Select one of the color temperature setting modes from among

Also, this function may gradually lose its effectiveness due to the natural

4 modes; EASY, PRESET, EXPERT, and sRGB on (OPTION)

aging of the Trinitron picture tube.

menu.

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x EASY (Default setting)

You can adjust the color temperature from 5000K to 11000K.

x PRESET

You can select the preset color temperature from 5000K, 6500K, or

9300K. The default setting is 9300K.

x EXPERT

You can make additional fine adjustments to the color by selecting

this mode. GAIN ( ) adjusts the bright areas of the screen, while

BIAS ( ) adjusts the dark areas of the screen.

Select for Select for

R R (Red) BIAS R R (Red) GAIN

G (Green)

G

G G (Green) GAIN

BIAS

B B (Blue) BIAS B B (Blue) GAIN

0 RESET

x sRGB

The sRGB color setting is an industry standard color space protocol

designed to correlate the colors displayed on the monitor and those

printed. In order to display the sRGB colors correctly (γ = 2.2,

6500K), select the sRGB mode and set the PROFESSIONAL mode

of PICTURE EFFECT (page 4) and your connected computer to the

sRGB profile. If you select sRGB, you cannot operate the

CONTRAST/BRIGHT menu adjustments.

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