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Troubleshooting
✤If these instructions do not solve your problem, contact your nearest Samsung authorized service center.
Symptom | Explanation/Solution | |
You cannot switch the | Check the battery pack or the AC Power Adapter. | |
camcorder on. | ||
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START/STOP button | Check the POWER switch is set to CAMERA. | |
does not operate | You have reached the end of the cassette. | |
while recording. | Check the record protection tab on the cassette. | |
The camcorder goes | You have left the camcorder set to STBY for more | |
than 5 minutes without using it. | ||
off automatically. | ||
The battery pack is fully exhausted. | ||
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The battery pack is | The atmospheric temperature is too low. | |
The battery pack has not been charged fully. | ||
quickly exhausted. | The battery pack is completely dead, and cannot be | |
| recharged, Use another battery pack. | |
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When you see a blue | The video heads may be dirty. | |
screen during | Clean the head with a cleaning tape. | |
playback. | ||
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A vertical strip appears | The contrast between the subject and the background | |
on the screen when | is too great for the camcorder to operate normally. | |
recording a dark | Make the background bright to reduce the contrast or | |
background. | use the BLC function while you are recording brighter. | |
The image in the | The Viewfinder lens has not been adjusted. | |
Adjust the viewfinder control lever until the indicators | ||
viewfinder is blurred. | ||
displayed on the viewfinder come into sharp focus. | ||
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Auto focus does not | Check the M.FOCUS menu. | |
work. | Auto focus does not work in the Manual Focus mode. | |
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Play, FF or REW | Check the POWER switch. Set the power switch to PLAYER. | |
button does not work. | You have reached the beginning or end of the cassette. | |
When you see a | This is normal operation and it is not a failure or | |
broken block image | defect. | |
during the RECORD |
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SEARCH. |
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