Screen Displays

To display the date and time on a connected TV, press the wireless controller’s DATA CODE button when the camera is in VCR mode with a tape

loaded. See p. 65 also.

TV

SCREEN

Press the wireless controller’s TV SCREEN button

DATA

to see or hide the other displays on the TV screen.

CODE

 

(The displays appear white on-screen.) They will

 

not be added to any recordings you make with the

 

camera. You can also display or hide (for a clear

 

screen while recording) the displays through TV

 

SCREEN in the camera menu. For instructions on

 

how to hook the camera up to your TV, see p. 30.

 

If you slide the POWER switch to OFF while in VCR mode, the DATA CODE and TV SCREEN will reset to show a clear screen.

indicates a flashing display.

E

Turning off the LCD screen displays

You can turn off the displays to give you a clear screen for playback.

Set the camera to VCR mode, open the VCR menu (page 34) and choose the DISPLAYS option. Set the displays to OFF <PLAYBK> and then close the menu.

The LCD screen will now be completely blank, but the camera will continue to show warning/caution displays when necessary.

Record pause mode (p. 21)

Recording (p. 21)

Shows how much battery power remains (p. 83).

The battery pack is exhausted (p. 83).

No cassette is loaded, or it is set for erasure prevention (p. 19-20).

Remaining tape

(Green: more than 5 min. Yellow: less than 5 min. Red: final few secs).

...finally, it tells you when you have completely run out of tape.

The camera is ejecting the tape (p. 19).

P AUS E

RE C

5min

E N D

E J E C T

The safety mechanism is activated. Unload the cassette and turn the camera off. Turn it on again and reload the cassette.

Recording mode (p. 22)

Playback is stopped (p. 28).

Normal playback (p. 28)

Fast forward (p. 28)

Rewind (p. 28)

Fast forward playback (p. 28)

Rewind playback (p. 28)

Frame advance playback (p. 29)

E J E C T

SP

S T OP

F F

REW

Information

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Canon DM-GL1 instruction manual Screen Displays, Turning off the LCD screen displays