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3 Terminating USB mode

Use one of the following three methods.

•Set the camera POWER switch to OFF.

•Set the PC MODE option in the SYSTEM SETUP screen to OFF.

•Press the USER button to which PC MODE has been assigned.

USB host mode

This mode allows you to connect the camera to a hard disk drive that supports USB 2.0 to save card data, view thumbnails of the stored clips and write data back to P2 cards.

Switching to USB Host Mode

1 Set the menu option PC MODE SELECT in the SYSTEM SETUP screen to USB HOST and set PC MODE to ON.

•This engages the USB host mode.

•The USB LED on the camera lights in USB host mode and USB HOST CONNECT appears in the center of the viewfinder. When a normal connection cannot be established with the hard disk, the USB LED flashes and DISCONNECT appears in the viewfinder.

•When PC MODE is assigned to a user button, press that user button to switch between USB host mode and normal mode. However, a user button cannot be used for switching in the thumbnail mode.

For details, refer to [Assigning functions to USER Buttons] (page 61).

2 Press the THUMBNAIL button.

•The thumbnail screen opens.

•Make sure that USB HOST appears at the bottom right of the screen.

•When the camera is connected to a hard disk drive, the HDD icon appears at the top right of the screen. If the icon lights red this indicates that data cannot be copied to or from the hard disk. Check hard disk drive type.

For details on hard disk drives, refer to [Thumbnail Screen] (page 111).

NOTE

The USB host mode allows playback of P2 cards but not recording of camera video or external input.

And clips on the hard disk must be written back to a P2 card before they can be played back.

For details, refer to [Writing back data to P2 cards] (page 153).

3 Terminating USB host mode.

Use one of the following three methods.

•Set the camera POWER switch to OFF.

•Close the thumbnail screen and set the menu option PC mode in the SYSTEM SETUP screen to OFF.

•Press the USER button to which PC MODE has

been assigned *1.

*1 In thumbnail mode, pressing a user button will not terminate USB host mode.

Using USB host mode

Supported hard disks

•A hard disk drive that supports the USB 2.0 interface

•P2 STORE (the optional AJ-PCS060G hard drive)

NOTE

•This camera supports USB bus power (5 V, 0.5 A) but some hard disks may not be able to use USB bus power. Such hard disk drives should be provided with a separate power supply.

•To prevent copying or formatting problems from occurring during connection to a hard disk drive, be sure that the camera’s battery is sufficiently charged or use the AC adapter.

•Do not connect a hard disk to hubs or other connections that involve multiple units even if it is not powered on. Do not connect other devices to the hard disk drive via a hub or other device.

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