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Important Information

2

For Your Safety

2

Precautions

2

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

4

Cautions When Using

5

Cautions When Storing

9

Suggestions and Restrictions

10

Read This First

11

Introduction

12

Table of Contents

14

About This Manual

17

Checking Provided Accessories

18

Names of Parts

19

Try Recording and Playing Back using Disc

 

(Video and Photo)

23

Try Recording and Playing Back using Card

 

(Photo)

25

Discs and Cards

27

AVAILABLE DISCS

27

INFORMATION ON DVD-R DISC

28

EXAMPLES OF DISCS THAT CANNOT BE

 

USED ON THIS DVD VIDEO

 

CAMERA/RECORDER:

28

HANDLING DISCS

29

DISC CLEANING

29

AVAILABLE CARDS

30

Storage Capacity on Disc or Card

31

RECORDABLE TIME OF MOVIE (VIDEO)

31

RECORDABLE STILLS (PHOTOS) ON DISC ....

31

RECORDABLE STILLS (PHOTOS) ON CARD...

32

SIZE AND QUALITY OF PHOTOS

33

ATTACHING BATTERY TO DVD VIDEO

 

CAMERA/RECORDER

43

REMOVING BATTERY

43

BATTERY REMAINING LEVEL INDICATOR

45

EFFICIENT USE OF BATTERY

45

USING DVD VIDEO CAMERA/RECORDER

 

WITH AC ADAPTER/CHARGER

46

Turning DVD Video Camera/Recorder On

 

and Off

47

Inserting and Removing Disc

48

INSERTING DISC

48

REMOVING DISC

50

Inserting and Removing Card

51

Basic Techniques

 

Recording Movie

52

Recording Stills

54

On-Screen Information

55

INFORMATION DISPLAY DURING

 

RECORDING

55

Zooming

59

MACRO RECORDING

60

RECORDING SUBJECTS FOR STRONGER

 

WIDE-ANGLE OR TELEPHOTO EFFECT

60

Playing Back

61

PLAYING BACK

61

PLAYBACK FROM START OF DISC OR

 

CARD

62

SEARCH PLAYBACK OF MOVIE

62

FRAME ADVANCE/FRAME BACK/SLOW

 

PLAYBACK OF MOVIE

62

SKIP PLAYBACK OF MOVIE

63

PLAYING BACK STILLS

63

JUMPING TO SPECIFIED POINT (GO TO)

64

Setups

 

On-Screen Information Display

65

 

INFORMATION DISPLAY DURING

 

Setting Up the DVD Video Camera/

 

 

 

PLAYBACK

65

Recorder

34

Checking Flow of Quick Menu

66

HOLDING DVD VIDEO CAMERA/

 

 

 

 

 

 

Camera Functions

 

 

RECORDER

34

 

 

FLOW OF QUICK MENU WHEN RECORDING

 

ATTACHING SHOULDER STRAP

35

 

MOVIE:

68

ATTACHING LENS CAP

35

FLOW OF QUICK MENU WHEN RECORDING

 

INSERTING BATTERY INTO REMOTE

 

 

 

PHOTO (DISC):

69

CONTROL

36

FLOW OF QUICK MENU WHEN RECORDING

 

REMOVING BATTERY FROM REMOTE

 

 

 

PHOTO (CARD):

70

CONTROL

36

 

 

 

Disc Navigation Functions

 

 

VIEWING IMAGE ON LCD MONITOR

 

 

 

 

FLOW OF QUICK MENU

 

SCREEN

38

 

(WITH DVD-RAM DISC):

71

CLOSING LCD MONITOR

39

FLOW OF QUICK MENU

 

VIEWING SUBJECT THROUGH

 

 

 

(WITH DVD-R DISC):

72

VIEWFINDER

39

FLOW OF QUICK MENU

 

SETTING DATE AND TIME

40

 

(WITH CARD):

73

CHANGING DISPLAY FORMAT OF DATE

 

 

Manually Focusing Subject

74

AND TIME

41

FOCUSING DURING RECORDING

74

Setting Up the Battery

42

 

 

 

CHARGING BATTERY

42

 

 

 

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