Operating Instructions
Table Of Contents
- Important Safeguards
- Contents
- Read this first!
- Accessories
- Operating precautions
- Checking the system operations
- Adjusting the hand strap
- Attaching the shoulder strap
- Attaching the lens hood
- Attaching the lens-cap strap
- Cassette tapes
- Description of parts
- The remote control
- The battery
- Viewfinder
- Time data
- Regular shooting
- Shooting techniques for different targets
- Check what you have shot (rec check)
- Finding specific scenes (image search)
- Zoom
- Low-angle shooting
- Self-portrait shooting
- Zebra pattern
- Marker
- ONE-SHOT recording
- Changing the image size
- Optical Image Stabilizer
- Using the USER buttons
- Backlight compensation
- Index recording
- Color bars
- Adding effects to images
- Backup recording
- Switching to manual mode
- Adjusting the volume while shooting
- Shooting in progressive mode
- Focus
- Adjusting the shutter speed
- Adjusting the white balance
- Adjusting Iris, Gain, and Light Intensity
- Switching Audio Input
- Using scene files
- Transferring scene files
- Playback
- Variable-speed playback
- Using the Counter
- Connecting external units
- Audio dubbing
- Dubbing
- Screen displays
- Using the setup menus
- Setup menu structure
- Setup menu list
- Before calling for service
- Condensation
- Tally lamp
- System resetting
- Video Heads
- Cleaning
- Storage Precautions
- Specifications
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Viewfinder
This camera has two viewfinders; one is a miniature
LCD in the viewfinder and the other is a retractable
3.5-inch LCD.
Use the viewfinder that best suits the application
and shooting conditions.
• The brightness and hue may differ between the
images appearing on the viewfinder and LCD monitor
and those displayed on a TV monitor.
To see how the final images will appear, check them
on a TV monitor.
1 Set the POWER switch to ON and check that
images appear in the viewfinder.
• Keep the LCD monitor closed.
2 Adjust the viewfinder’s angle so that the screen
is positioned where it is easiest to see.
• You can move the view finder out to about 90°
perpendicular to the camera.
3 Adjust the diopter adjustment lever so that you
can see the characters on the viewfinder
screen clearly.
Using the viewfinder
Do not point the viewfinder at the sun.
Doing so may damage the parts inside.
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Viewfinder diopter
dial
Eye piece
Fitting the eye cup
Attach the eye cup by aligning the projections
on the eye cup holder and eye cup and fitting
them together.
• Turning the eye cup after attaching it may cause
the eye cup holder to come off. If the eyecup
holder does come off, see “Cleaning the
Viewfinder” (Page 83) for details on how to refit it.
Eye cup holder
Eye cup
Projection
Preparations