Turn on/off the camera

While pressing the lock release, turn the POWER switch.

Turn on the camera:

The mode lamp (CAM) lights red (CAM mode) and the camera is now in the shooting standby mode.

Turn off the camera:

The mode lamp (CAM) goes out.

•Power saving mode

When the camera is left idle in pause mode for about 5 minutes, it will behave as follows depending on what POWER SAVE settings have been made in the setting menu OTHER FUNCTIONS screen (Page 111).

ON: The camera-recorder turns off automatically.

OFF:The camera-recorder does not turn off automatically.

See the setup menus, OTHER FUNCTIONS screen, POWER SAVE (Page 111) for details.

•When the operation mode buttons flash in sequence starting with the top one and the power then goes off, it means that there is no charge left in the battery. Recharge the battery.

Mode lamp

POWER

 

SLOT SEL CAM

ON

MCR

 

PC

OFF

 

MODE

 

Mode button

Lock release

Tally lamp

 

The tally lamp can be made to light up during

 

shooting by selecting “ON” as the REC LAMP

 

setting in the OTHER FUNCTIONS screen.

 

(Page 110)

 

When the camera-recorder is in any of the

 

following states, the tally lamp blinks.

 

• When an operation initiated by the remote control

Tally lamp

unit has been received (8 blinks/sec.)

 

• When the remaining battery capacity runs out (4

 

blinks/sec.)

 

• When the available recording space on the P2

 

card or the battery power is low (1 blink/sec.)

 

• When removing the P2 card during access (4

 

blinks/sec.)

 

• When there is no recording space left on the P2

 

card (4 blinks/sec.)

 

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