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Important Information

2

For Your Safety

2

Precautions

2

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

4

Cautions When Using

5

Cautions When Storing

8

Suggestions and Restrictions

8

Read This First

9

About This Manual

9

Introduction

10

Table of Contents

12

Checking Provided Accessories

15

Names of Parts

16

Try Recording and Playing Back using Disc

 

(Video and Photo)

20

Try Recording and Playing Back using Card

 

(Photo)

22

Discs and Cards

24

AVAILABLE DISCS

25

INFORMATION ON DVD-R DISC

25

EXAMPLES OF DISCS THAT CANNOT BE

 

USED ON THIS DVD VIDEO CAMERA/

 

RECORDER:

26

HANDLING DISCS

27

DISC CLEANING

27

AVAILABLE CARDS

28

COMMON CAUTIONS FOR DISC AND CARD

28

Storage Capacity on Disc or Card

29

RECORDABLE TIME OF MOVIE (VIDEO)

29

RECORDABLE STILLS (PHOTOS) ON

 

DVD-RAM

29

RECORDABLE STILLS (PHOTOS) ON

 

CARD

30

SIZE AND QUALITY OF PHOTOS

31

Setups

 

Setting Up the DVD Video Camera/

 

Recorder

32

HOLDING DVD VIDEO CAMERA/

 

RECORDER

32

ATTACHING SHOULDER STRAP

33

ATTACHING LENS CAP

33

INSERTING BATTERY INTO REMOTE

 

CONTROL

34

REMOVING BATTERY FROM REMOTE

 

CONTROL

34

VIEWING IMAGE ON LCD MONITOR

 

SCREEN

36

CLOSING LCD MONITOR

37

VIEWING SUBJECT THROUGH

 

VIEWFINDER

37

SETTING DATE AND TIME

38

CHANGING DISPLAY FORMAT OF DATE

 

AND TIME

39

Setting Up the Battery

40

CHARGING BATTERY

40

ATTACHING BATTERY TO DVD VIDEO

 

CAMERA/RECORDER

41

REMOVING BATTERY

41

BATTERY REMAINING LEVEL INDICATOR

43

EFFICIENT USE OF BATTERY

43

USING DVD VIDEO CAMERA/RECORDER WITH

AC ADAPTER/CHARGER

44

Turning DVD Video Camera/Recorder On

 

and Off

45

Inserting and Removing Disc

46

INSERTING DISC

46

REMOVING DISC

48

Inserting and Removing Card

49

Basic Techniques

 

Recording Movie

50

Recording Stills

52

On-Screen Information

53

INFORMATION DISPLAY DURING

 

RECORDING

53

Zooming

57

MACRO RECORDING

58

RECORDING SUBJECTS FOR STRONGER

 

WIDE-ANGLE OR TELEPHOTO EFFECT

58

Playing Back

59

PLAYING BACK

59

PLAYBACK FROM START OF DISC OR

 

CARD

60

SEARCH PLAYBACK OF MOVIE

60

FRAME ADVANCE/FRAME BACK/SLOW

 

PLAYBACK OF MOVIE

60

SKIP PLAYBACK OF MOVIE

61

PLAYING BACK STILLS

61

JUMPING TO SPECIFIED POINT (GO TO)

62

On-Screen Information Display

63

INFORMATION DISPLAY DURING

 

PLAYBACK

63

Checking Flow of Quick Menu

64

Camera Functions

 

FLOW OF QUICK MENU WHEN RECORDING

 

MOVIE:

66

FLOW OF QUICK MENU WHEN RECORDING

 

PHOTO (DISC):

67

FLOW OF QUICK MENU WHEN RECORDING

 

PHOTO (CARD):

69

Disc Navigation Functions

 

FLOW OF QUICK MENU

 

(WITH DVD-RAM DISC):

71

FLOW OF QUICK MENU

 

(WITH DVD-RW DISC):

72

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