General Maintenance

PLAYBACK OF PRE-RECORDED CASSETTE

Symptom

Check Point & Correction

 

 

The PLAY button cannot be engaged.

• Set the CAM/OFF/VIDEO switch to VIDEO.

 

 

No picture appears on television screen when The

• Set the television to the camcorder channel (3 or 4)

PLAY is pressed. (TV is connected to the camcorder

depending upon the selected channel in the RF channel

by using RF converter unit.)

select switch of RF converter unit.

 

 

Interference on playback picture. (TV is connected

• When you see the playback picture on your TV, adjust fine

to the camcorder by using RF converter unit.)

tuning knob on television set to obtain best picture.

 

 

Picture bends at the top of the TV screen.

• TV receiver is older type. It needs to be modified to work

 

properly with camcorder.

 

• Tape is damaged. Try another cassette.

 

 

Color of your TV screen is too bright, too faint or

• TV set has VIR circuit. Turn it off during playback.

change.

 

 

 

Date search function does not operate.

• Slide the CAM/OFF VIDEO switch to VIDEO.

 

• Insert the clock battery, set the date and time, then start

 

recording.

 

• Do not remove the clock battery after recording.

 

• Do not eject the recorded cassette. Leave it in the

 

camcorder.

 

 

BATTERY CONDITION

Symptom

Check Point & Correction

 

 

The ( ) indication in the electronic viewfinder or on

• Try another battery or charge the battery.

the LCD monitor flashes to indicate battery is

 

discharged.

 

 

 

The battery level indicator ( ) appears differently on

• This does not indicate a fault; it is because the power

the LCD monitor and in the viewfinder.

consumed by the LCD monitor and the viewfinder is

 

different.

 

 

NO OPERATION IS ACCEPTED

Symptom

Check Point & Correction

 

 

Power is turned on, but no

• Remove the power source and the clock battery. And after about one minute,

button operations are

the display in the viewfinder or on the LCD monitor will be reset. Then set the

accepted.

information again.

 

 

TAPE DISPLAY

Symptom

Check Point & Correction

 

 

"TAPE" appears in the

• Have you moved the camcorder or cassette from a cold place to a warm place so that

viewfinder or on the

its temperature changed abruptly? If the temperature has changed, remove the

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