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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Screen displays
1 Warnings
REMOTE: Blinks when the wrong equipment
setting is selected on the remote control unit.
: Lights when condensation has formed
inside the camera-recorder.
: Blinks when cylinder heads are dirty.
: Blinks when a tape has not been inserted
or the write-protect switch is engaged.
END: Blinks when the tape has reach the
end.
: Lights if a problem has occurred while
taking a self-portrait in the mirror mode.
: Lights when the internal battery for the
calendar has run out.
2 Backup unit displays
The status of the backup unit connected to the
DV connector is displayed here.
Nothing is displayed if in the setup menus,
OTHER FUNCTIONS screen, DV CONTROL,
you have selected “OFF”.
DV*: Recording
DVh: Recording standby
: The backup unit cannot be
controlled.
DV: The backup unit is not connected.
DV- -|: The backup unit is connected but
is in a mode other than
recording or recording standby.
3 Optical Image Stabilizer ( ) display
Appears when the Optical Image Stabilizer is
ON.
4 Recording time mode (SP/LP)
SP: Standard mode
LP: Extended mode
5 Progressive mode
Frame rate information during shooting in the
progressive mode is displayed here.
6 Squeeze information
Appears when in the setup menus, CAMERA
SETUP screen, ASPECT CONV, you have
selected “SQUEEZE” (Page 71) or when playing
back images recorded in the squeeze mode.
7 Setting selection
The selected setting is displayed here when a
switch is selected or a button is pressed to select
a setting.
8 Information display
Following information is displayed depending on
the situation.
• Performance of the auto white balance or the
auto black balance
• Warning (Page 64)
• The functions allocated to the USER buttons
are displayed while you hold down the MODE
CHK button.
Displays in CAMERA and VCR modes
USER - 1
I – PAUSE
DV
SP
24PA
SQU
STD
TC 12 : 34 : 56 : 00
Z 78
MF25
MACRO
P 3.2 K
F5 . 6
18
dB
min
48 K
ND 1/64
ND 1/64
INDEX
LOW LIGHT
1/100
ALC
NOV
30 2005 23 : 59 : 59
CH1
CH2
VOLUME
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