Operating instructions

Using the Full

Range of Features

Taking Still Pictures

Take still photos that you can record onto a floppy disk with the optional Floppy

Disk Still Image Recorder FR-100 ( 45) and transfer to a PC for image

enhancement and printout. Also, starting your shooting with a still photo makes it

easy to find the beginning again later with the Photo Search function ( 77).

You can record still pictures like a photograph. The camera records the picture and

sound to tape for approximately 6 seconds. The exposure is automatically

adjusted.

Take still pictures from the body of the camera or from the wireless controller.

You can take a still picture at any time during regular video recording, or you can

put the camcorder into record pause mode first, then take a still picture.

Press the button fully down and the still picture will be taken immediately.

1. Press the button halfway down and hold it:

– “PHOTO” flashes at the bottom right of display.

– Exposure is locked the instant the photo button is pressed halfway down.

– During autofocus

flashes white in the display as the camcorder adjusts

the focus and it is displayed continuously as a green mark when the

camera is ready to take the still picture.

– If the subject is unsuitable for autofocus ( 110), the camera may not be

able to focus, and

may continue to flash white in the display. Adjust the

focus manually with the selector dial.

– If you are using manual focus ( 71), the

mark starts as a continous

green mark. Focus with the selector dial.

2. Press the PHOTO button fully down to take the still picture.

• The camera takes the image immediately, and then records the “photo” to the

tape for approximately six seconds. During this time the camera also records

the sound, and the display also shows the still picture.

• A counter display appears, and counts up to six secs as the camcorder

records the picture.

disappears from the display.

PHOTO

1,2

During record mode

During record pause mode

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