Tape Remaining Indicator, Brightness Control

NOTES:

●Be careful not to cover the camera sensor; built-in here is the sensor necessary for shooting.

●If 5 minutes elapse in the Record-Standby mode, power shuts off automatically to conserve energy and protect the heads. To turn the camcorder on again, push back and pull out the viewfinder again. As long as you don’t take out the tape you were using or play it back, you can continue from where you left off with no noticeable break on the recorded video.

●When a blank portion is left between recorded scenes on the tape, the time code is interrupted and errors may occur when editing the tape.

Continue recording from where you stop so there

are no gaps by following “Recording from the middle of a tape” (☞ pg. 20).

●Record-Standby means that a tape is loaded and the camcorder is ready to record.

●During recording, sound is not heard from the speaker. If you want to hear the sound, connect optional headphones to the headphones jack. The sound volume at this point is the same as the level it was adjusted during playback.

●To make the indications disappear, press and hold the IND.ON/OFF button for more than approx. 1 second. However, it is impossible to remove the

tape running indicator “ 444” and warning indications and so on (☞ pg. 79).

●When the battery remaining power indicator

appears as , that means the battery power is close to nil. When the battery power is exhausted, power turns off automatically.

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Tape Remaining Indicator

The time remaining on the tape is automatically monitored and displayed (☞ pg. 77). When the tape ends, “TAPE END” appears. If the indications are turned off, the tape remaining indicator appears when remaining time reaches 2 minutes.

Display

90 min

REC

2 min 3 min 89 min

blinking

1 min		0 min

blinking blinking

Brightness Control

You can adjust the brightness of the display by rotating the Select Dial.

BRIGHT – – – – –6– – – – –

1 ADJUST BRIGHTNESS

Rotate the Select Dial until the brightness indicator moves and the display reaches its appropriate brightness.

•The brightness indication appears on the display.

Viewfinder Indications

You can make the Viewfinder indications appear/ disappear.

1 PRESS IND.ON/OFF BUTTON When you do not want the indications to appear, press the IND.ON/OFF button for longer than approximately 1 second. Certain indications disappear.

Press again for longer than approx. 1 second to make the indicaitons reappear.

NOTE:

It is impossible to make the tape running indicator and warnings etc. disappear from the viewfinder. For the indications that can be removed, ☞ pg. 77.