User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Read this first
- About upgrade licenses and firmware versions
- Identifying parts and controls
- Screen indicators
- Table of Contents
- Getting Started
- Step 1: Checking supplied items
- Step 2: Using a battery pack or AC Adapter
- Step 3: Attaching the lens
- Step 4: Attaching the handle, accessory shoe, microphone, LCD screen, and grip
- Step 5: Turning on the camcorder and setting the date and time
- Step 6: Adjusting the LCD screen and viewfinder
- Step 7: Adjusting the angle of the grip
- Step 8: Inserting a memory card
- Recording
- Recording
- Adjusting the focus
- Changing the recording setting/image size
- Adjusting the brightness
- Adjusting the color tone
- High Dynamic Range (HDR)
- Using Direct Menu
- Slow & Quick Motion/Super Slow Motion recording
- Slow-Motion recording at High Frame Rate (HFR)
- Recording in RAW format using a RAW recorder (sold separately)
- MPEG HD recording
- Preparing to record in MPEG HD
- Recording in MPEG HD
- Slow & Quick Motion Recording
- Super Slow Motion Recording
- Playback in MPEG HD
- MPEG HD output formats
- Recommended memory cards
- Estimated recording time of movies
- Proxy recording supported formats
- Streaming supported formats
- About the MPEG format
- Specifications
- Audio setup
- Assigning functions to the ASSIGN buttons/dial
- Using the Wi-Fi function
- What you can do with the Wi-Fi function of the camcorder
- Downloading “Content Browser Mobile”
- Connecting the camcorder to an Android smartphone equipped with the NFC function using One-touch connection
- Using a smartphone as a camcorder remote control
- Connecting without using the NFC function (Android)
- Connecting without using the NFC function (iPhone/iPad)
- Using network functions
- Useful functions
- Selecting suitable settings automatically (full auto mode setting)
- Customizing the picture quality (Picture profile)
- Using the gamma display assist function
- Setting time data
- Preventing accidental operation (HOLD switch)
- Reviewing the most recently recorded scene (Last Scene Review)
- Inverting the LCD screen display
- GPS function
- Playback
- Editing
- Using the Menu
- Troubleshooting
- Additional Information
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Recording
BLACK LEVEL
To set the black level.
GAMMA
To select a gamma curve.
BLACK GAMMA
To correct gamma in low intensity area.
Item Description and settings
Sets the black level.
–15 to +15
Item Description and settings
[STANDARD] Standard gamma curve for movies
[STILL] Gamma curve like an interchangeable-lens still camera movie.
[CINE1] Makes soft color images by decreasing dark area contrast and
sharpening bright area tone changes (HG4609G33 equivalent).
[CINE2] Almost the same effect as [CINE1]; select this if you want to treat the
image in a range within 100% of video signal when editing, etc.
(HG4600G30 equivalent).
[CINE3] Increases contrast between bright areas and dark areas more than
[CINE1] and [CINE2], sharpening dark area tone changes.
[CINE4] Increases dark area contrast more than that of [CINE3]. The dark area
contrast is weaker and the bright area contrast is stronger than that of
[STANDARD].
[ITU709] Gamma curve that corresponds to ITU-709. Gain in low intensity area:
4.5
[ITU709(800%)] Gamma curve for checking scenes when shooting using [S-LOG2] or
[S-LOG3].
[S-LOG2] [S-LOG2] gamma curve. This setting presumes editing in post-
production after recording.
[S-LOG3] [S-LOG3] gamma curve. Gamma curve with characteristics similar to
film, and which presumes editing in post-production after recording.
Item Description and settings
[RANGE] Selects a correcting range.
HIGH / MIDDLE / LOW
[LEVEL] Sets the correcting level.
–7 (maximum black compression) to +7 (maximum black stretch)
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