Maintenance and Inspections

Inspections Before Shooting

Make sure you check that the system is operating normally before embarking on a shoot. We recommend using a color video monitor to check the image.

Preparing for Inspections

1 Mount a charged battery pack.

3 Insert a P2 card into the card slot and close the slide

2 Turn the POWER switch [ON] and check that 5 or more

cover.

Confirm that the P2 card access LED for the inserted

“BATT” indication marks appear.

card slot lights up in orange. If P2 cards are inserted into

If fewer than 5 “BATT” indication marks appear,

multiple card slots, only the P2 card access LED for the

first-inserted P2 card lights up in orange. Then, the other

replace the battery with a fully-charged battery.

P2 card access LEDs light up in green when P2 cards

 

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are inserted.

If the access LED for the P2 card slot in which a P2 card

 

is inserted keeps blinking in green, or if there is no

 

display, recording is not possible on that particular P2

 

card.

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Inspections and Maintenance

Inspecting the Camera Unit

1 Set the zoom to electric zoom mode and check the

5 While holding down the instant iris automatic adjustment

zoom operation.

button, aim the lens at objects with different degrees of

Check that the image changes to telephoto and wide

brightness, to check that the instant iris automatic

angle.

adjustment operates properly.

2 Set the zoom to manual zoom mode and check the

 

 

 

Note

zoom operation.

There are also lens which have no instant iris automatic

Turn the manual zoom lever to check that the image

adjustment mode.

changes to telephoto and wide angle.

6 Return the iris to automatic adjustment mode and

3 Set the iris to automatic adjustment mode and aim the

change the GAIN switch setting to [L], [M], and [H], to

lens at objects with different degrees of brightness, to

check the following items:

check that the automatic iris adjustment operates

 

The iris is adjusted for objects with the same

normally.

 

 

brightness according to the switch setting.

4 Set the iris to manual adjustment mode and turn the iris

 

 

The gain value displayed on the viewfinder screen

 

changes according to the switch setting.

ring, to check the manual iris adjustment.

7 When a lens with an extender is mounted, set the

 

 

extender to the operating position to check that the

 

extender operates properly.

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