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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Setup menu list (continued)
are the factory settings.
SCENE FILE screen
Item/
(Display
mode)
Description of settings
MATRIX
(camera)
Chooses a MATRIX table, and sets the
color for shooting.
NORM:
Makes colors suitable for a shooting
in the open air or in using a halogen
lamp as the source of light.
ENRICHED:
Makes colors brighter than the
NORM1 mode.
FLOU:
Makes colors suitable for shooting
indoors under fluorescent lights.
CINE-LIKE:
Makes colors suitable for movie-like
shooting.
SKIN TONE
DTL
(camera)
Sets the skin tone details to ON or
OFF. When ON is selected, skin tone
details are reduced, which softens the
skin tones.
ON OFF
V DETAIL
FREQ
(camera)
Sets the vertical detail when shooting
in progressive mode.
THIN
:
Select this to thin the detail of
images.
MID
:
Select this to slightly thicken
the detail of images.
THICK
:
Select this to thicken the detail
of images.
• When images were shot in the
progressive mode in which the
vertical detail is set as “THIN” or
“MID” and are played on a monitoring
television (60i interlace), you will feel
flickers caused on horizontal lines
and almost horizontal oblique lines.
When you play images under the
progressive mode, set the detail as
“THIN” or “MID”. This gives you
higher resolution images than setting
the detail as “THICK”.
Item/
(Display
mode)
Description of settings
PROGRESSIVE
(camera)
Sets the shooting in progressive mode.
OFF:
Select this to disable progressive mode.
30P:
Select this to shoot in 30P mode (30
frames/second).
24P:
Select this to shoot in 24P mode (24
frames/second). The tape is recorded in [2:3]
conversion.
24P (ADV):
Select this to shoot in 24P advanced
mode (24 frames/second). The tape is recorded
using advanced conversion.
NAME EDIT
(camera)
Edits the name of the selected scene
file you have selected with the scene
file dial.
SAVE/INIT
(camera)
SAVE:
The changed settings in the scene file
are saved.
• The original scene file settings will be
restored when the menu mode is
released, the operation is switched to
the VCR mode or when the power is
turned off if you do not select SAVE.
INITIAL:
The selected scene file settings in the
SCENE FILE dial are returned to the
factory settings.