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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27 Zoom position display
The zoom poison is displayed with Z00
(maximum wide-angle) - Z99 (maximum zoom).
28 Scene file name display
29 Displays marker
During shooting, pressing the ZEBRA button
once or twice will display the marker.
30 Counter display
The following data is selected in turn each time
the COUNTER button is pressed.
COUNTER:
Counter value
M COUNTER:
Counter value in memory stop mode
TC:
Time code value
When the time code value could not be read
correctly from the tape, [TC*] is displayed.
When it acts in drop frame mode, the colon
between seconds and frames become β.β.
UB:
User information
When user information could not be read
correctly from the tape, [UB*] is displayed.
FR:
Frame rate information for recording
FR 60I : Standard (60i interlace) mode
(60 fields/sec.)
FR 30P : 30P progressive mode (30
frames/sec.)
FR 24P : 24P progressive mode (24
frames/sec.)
FR 24PA : 24P advanced mode
When in FR24P and FR 24PA mode, the
sequence information of the frame
conversion at the final place.
31 Operational state display
REC : Recording
* : Recording (during self-portrait
shooting)
PAUSE : Recording pause
*h : Recording standby (during self-
portrait recording)
: Play pause
STNDBY : Standby (the cylinder-head is
stopped)
A. DUB : Standby for dubbing record
A. DUB : Dubbing record
: Play
( ) : Fast-forward/Fast-forward play
(Rewind/Rewind play)
( ) : Slow play (Reverse slow play)
CHK : Rec check
( ) : Cue (reverse cue)
( ) : Frame-by-frame (Reverse
Frame-by-frame)
BLANK : Blank search
REC END : End of recording search
x /x (x /x ):
Variable-speed search (Reverse variable-
speed search)
32 ONE-SHOT recording display
Appears when βONβ has been selected for ONE-
SHOT REC in the RECORDING SETUP screen
of the setup menus.
33 AUTO button action display
When the AUTO button is pressed, this display
appears if the function configured in the AUTO
SW screen of the Setup menu is active.
Displays