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FEATURES OF THE CAMERA SECTION

Outputting color bars
This camcorder can output three types of color bars, depend-
ing on the camera settings.
To output color bars, make the following settings.
1. Turn the FULL AUTO switch to “OFF”.
2. Set the BARS item on the CAMERA OPERATION menu
screen to “ON”. XSee page 66.
• Color bars are output.
Outputting color bars using the USER buttons
1. Turn the FULL AUTO switch to “OFF”.
2. Assign “BARS” to one of the USER1, 2 or 3 buttons.
XSee “SWITCH MODE Menu Screen” on page 71.
3. Press the USER button to which “BARS” was assigned.
• Color bars are output.
MEMO
• You can select whether to output an audio test signal dur-
ing color bar output using the TEST TONE item on the
AUDIO/MIC [1/2] menu screen. XSeepage 72.
• Color bars are not output when FULL AUTO mode is ON
or in VTR mode.
FULL AUTO
switch
USER button
NTSC standard : Outputs color bars compliant with the
SMPTE standard.
PAL standard : Outputs color bars compliant with the
EBU standard.
16:9 screen : Outputs multi-format color bars.