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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Adjusting the shutter speed
Shutter speeds you can select
1 Each time you press the SHUTTER button, the
shutter speed switches between normal (OFF)
and the speed you selected with the SPEED
SEL button.
2 After you have pressed the SHUTTER button,
press SPEED SEL to select the shutter speed.
The shutter speed changes as follows each
time you press SPEED SEL.
When progressive mode is OFF (60i)
When progressive mode is on (30P/24P/24PA)
• Remember that the faster the shutter speed,
the lower the sensitivity.
• If iris is set to auto, then it will open wider with
higher shutter speeds and thereby reduce
focal depth.
• If you have set slow shutter mode (Page 40),
you cannot change shutter speeds
(“INVALID” appears on the screen).
First press the USER button you have
allocated to SLOWSHUT to cancel the slow
shutter mode, then change the shutter speed
as shown above.
With artificial lighting and especially fluorescent
lights and mercury-vapor lamps, the luminance
changes in synchronization with the power line
frequency. When this frequency is 50 Hz, mutual
interference will occur between the camera-
recorder’s vertical sync frequency (approx. 60 Hz)
and the lighting frequency (50 Hz). This means that
the white balance may change periodically.
Before shooting in areas with artificial lighting or
adjusting the white balance, set the shutter speed
as follows.
Progressive
mode
Normal shutter
speeds (OFF)
Shutter speeds you can select with SPEED SEL
SYNCHRO SCAN Shutter speed selected
OFF (60i) 1/60 1/60.3 - 1/250
1/100, 1/120, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000, 1/2000
30P 1/50 1/30.1 - 1/250.0
1/30, 1/60, 1/120, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000
24P/24PA 1/50 1/24.1 - 1/250.0
1/24, 1/60, 1/120, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000
SPEED SEL button
SHUTTER button
SYNCHRO
SCAN
1/100 1/120 1/250
1/5001/10001/2000
SYNCHRO
SCAN
1/30 1/60 1/120
1/2501/5001/1000
(1/24)
Progressive
mode
Shutter speed
50 Hz 60 Hz
OFF (60i) 1/100 OFF (1/60)
30P OFF (1/50) 1/60
24P/24PA OFF (1/50) 1/60
1/100
PUSH STILL
The current shutter speed appears on the
viewfinder and LCD screens unless you have
selected OFF in OTHER DISPLAY in the DISPLAY
SETUP screen of the setup menus. It is not
displayed if you have set the shutter speed to
normal (OFF).
Shooting