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BASIC RECORDING Recording On Tape (cont.)

SNAPSHOT Button

Power Switch

Lock Button

VIDEO/MEMORY Switch (Open the LCD monitor to access this switch.)

MENU Wheel

Display

Menu Screen

SNAP MODE – FUL L

NEGA

P I N–UP

FRAME

FULL

NEGA

Snapshot mode with no

Nega mode*

frame*

 

PIN-UP

FRAME

Pin-Up mode

Snapshot mode with

 

frame*

* There is the sound effect of a shutter closing.

Snapshot (For Tape Recording)

This feature lets you record still images that look like photographs onto a tape.

SNAPSHOT MODE SELECTION

1 Set the VIDEO/MEMORY Switch to “VIDEO”, then set the Power Switch to “ ” while pressing down the Lock Button located on the switch. Pull out the viewfinder fully or open the LCD monitor fully.

2 Press the MENU wheel in. The Menu Screen appears.

3 Rotate the MENU wheel to select “ CAMERA”. Press it and the CAMERA Menu appears.

4 Rotate the MENU wheel to select “SNAP MODE”, then press it.

5 Rotate the MENU wheel to select the desired Snapshot mode, then press it.

Rotate the MENU wheel to select “ RETURN” and press it twice. The Menu Screen closes.

SNAPSHOT RECORDING

1 Press SNAPSHOT.

If you press during Record-Standby . . .

..... “PHOTO” appears and a still image will be

recorded for approx. 6 seconds, then the camcorder re-enters the Record-Standby mode.

If you press during Recording . . .

..... “PHOTO” appears and a still image will be

recorded for approx. 6 seconds, then the normal recording resumes.

Motor Drive Mode

Keeping SNAPSHOT pressed provides an effect similar to serial photography. (Interval between still images: approx. 1 second)

NOTES:

●To remove the shutter sound,  “BEEP” on pg. 30.

●If Snapshot recording is not possible, “PHOTO” blinks when SNAPSHOT is pressed.

●If Programme AE with special effects ( pg. 38) is engaged, certain modes of Programme AE with special effects are disabled during Snapshot recording. In such a case, the icon blinks.

●If SNAPSHOT is pressed when “DIS” is set to “ON” ( pg. 29), the Stabiliser will be disabled.

●To dub images recorded on a tape to a memory card,  pg. 61.

●The Motor Drive mode is disabled when “REC

SELECT” is set to “

 

/

 

” in the Menu

Screen ( pg. 31).

●If “REC SELECT” is set to “ / ” in the DSC Menu Screen, still images are recorded on the memory card as well (640 x 480 pixels).

●During playback as well, all snapshot modes except

Nega mode are available when “ COPY” is set to “OFF” in the Menu Screen( pg. 32).

●When a headphone set is connected to the PHONE connector, the shutter sound is not heard from the speaker, however it is recorded onto the tape.