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Using the Full
Range of Features
Taking Still Pictures to a Cassette
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.
Your still photos can be transferred to a PC for image enhancement and printout.
ELURA2: Record still photos onto a floppy disk with the optional Floppy Disk
Still Image Recorder FR-100 ( 51) for transfer to a PC. ELURA2 MC only:
Copy still photos automatically to a MultiMediaCard for transfer to a PC ( 109).
Also, starting your shooting with a still photo makes it easy to find the beginning
again later with the Photo Search function ( 78).
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 PHOTO button fully down and the still picture will be taken

immediately.

• The camera takes the image immediately, and then records the “photo” to the
tape for approximately 6 seconds. During this time the camera also records
the sound, and the display shows the still picture.
• A counter display appears, and counts up to 6 seconds as the camcorder
records the picture.
• The camera returns to record pause mode.

1. Press the PHOTO button halfway down and hold it:

• “PHOTO” flashes at the bottom right of display.
• Exposure is locked.
• During autofocus Fflashes 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.
During record pause mode
During record mode
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PHOTO
PHOTO
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ELURA2 MC only: To take still images on a MultiMediaCard, see p. 97.
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