RET Button

The images recorded on the VTR or the return video signals which have been supplied to the GENLOCK IN/(VIDEO IN) connector can be viewed on the viewfinder screen either when the RET (return) button is pressed or while it is held down.

What appears on the viewfinder screen differs as shown in the table below depending on the RET SW setting selected on the “REC (ASPECT)/RET” SUB menu page of MAIN menu page 3 of 4 and on the VTR status.

ÈLens RET button functions

RET switch

Internal VTR mode

Description of what appears

setting

on viewfinder screen

 

 

 

 

REC CHECK

Recording

Images shot by camera.

 

 

RET button does not function.

 

 

 

 

Recording paused

What has been recorded

 

 

(2-second rec review) can be

 

 

checked.

 

 

 

 

Playing

Internal VTR’s playback

 

 

images.

 

 

RET button does not function.

 

 

 

 

Playback paused

Search operation for

 

 

successive shooting.

 

 

 

CAM RET

Recording

Return video signal which has

 

 

been supplied to GENLOCK

 

 

IN/(VIDEO IN) connector.

 

 

 

 

Recording paused

Return video signal which has

 

 

been supplied to GENLOCK

 

 

IN/(VIDEO IN) connector.

 

 

 

 

Playing

Picture played back by

 

 

internal VTR (RET button

 

 

does not function).

 

 

 

 

Playback paused

Still picture played back by

 

 

internal VTR.

 

 

 

MARKF

Recording

Switch functions as the

 

 

MARK switch for the Picture

 

 

Link function.

 

 

 

 

Recording paused

Switch functions as the

 

 

MARK switch for the Picture

 

 

Link function.

 

 

 

 

Playing

Picture played back by

 

 

internal VTR (RET button

 

 

does not function).

 

 

 

 

Playback paused

Still picture played back by

 

 

internal VTR (RET button

 

 

does not function).

 

 

 

FThis is displayed when the Picture Link adaptor board (AJ-YAP900, optional accessory) has been installed.

When the RET SW has been set to the REC CHECK mode and this board has been installed, this switch will operate as the TAKE function for the Picture Link operation while recording is in progress.

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Panasonic AJ-D610WBp operating instructions RET Button, Lens RET button functions, REC Check, Cam Ret, Mark F

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