Spotlight Mode

With this mode, recorded images may turn out to be extremely dark.

If the recording subject is extremely bright, its recorded image may turn out to be whitish.

Surf & Snow Mode

If the recording subject is extremely bright, its recorded image may turn out to be whitish.

ªWhite BalanceIn the following cases, you cannot change White Balance:

When you set [EFFECT1] of [DIGITAL EFFECT] Sub-Menu on the [CAMERA FUNCTIONS] Main-Menu to [GAINUP] or [EFFECT2] to [SEPIA] or to [B/W].

When you set the Zoom to 10k or higher

During Digital Still Picture Mode When you display a Menu

When you use the Colour Night View

In the following cases, the [1] Indication flashes:

The flashing indicates that the previously adjusted White Balance setting is still kept. This setting will be kept until White Balance is adjusted again.

You may not be able to achieve correct White Balance Adjustment manually under weak illumination.

ªManual Shutter Speed Adjustment

You may see vertical lines of light in the playback image of a brightly shining subject or highly reflective subject.

During normal playback, movement in the images may not look smooth.

Because the colour and brightness of the playback image may become unstable, avoid recording under fluorescent light, mercury light or sodium light.

If you are using either Gain-up Mode(l24) or Programme AE Mode (l21), you cannot adjust the shutter speed. If the shutter speed was adjusted manually, this setting will be cancelled.

ªManual Iris Adjustment

Depending on zoom magnification, there are iris values that will not be displayed.

If you are using Programme AE Mode (l21), you cannot adjust the iris. If the iris is adjusted manually, this setting will be cancelled.

If you attempt to adjust the Shutter Speed after setting the Iris, the value set for the Iris will be cancelled.

ªDigital EffectFunctions

It is not possible to use [MULTI], [P-IN-P], [WIPE], [MIX] or [TRACER] of [EFFECT1] together with the digital modes of [EFFECT2] on the [DIGITAL EFFECT] Sub-Menu.

If you have set [EFFECT2] to [B/W] or [SEPIA], changing

the selected White Balance Mode is not possible. (l21) When [PROGRESSIVE] on the [CAMERA SETUP]

Sub-Menu is set to [ON], the digital modes of [EFFECT1] on the [DIGITAL EFFECT] Sub-Menu cannot be used. (l44)

In the following cases, using the Digital Effect Function is not possible.

Card Mode

Itis as follows when [GAINUP] isselected.

Manual Focus Mode

The shutter speed and White Balance cannot be operated. The Sports Mode [5], the Portrait Mode [7] and Low

Light Mode [4] are cancelled.

WipeModeandMixMode

If either one of the following operations is carried out, stored images will be erased, and Wipe and Mix Functions cannot be used.

Use the Camera Search Function Press the [STILL] Button

Picture-in-Picture

If the Movie Camera is turned off, the smaller picture disappears.

Titles cannot be inserted into the smaller picture.

Multi-Picture Mode

If the [MULTI] Button is pressed while self-recording Mirror Mode (l17) is used, the still picture is displayed from the upper right corner of the screen, but, in reality, the picture is recorded from the upper left corner as usual.

Multi-Picture Mode cannot be used in digital still picture

mode.

The quality of Multi images deteriorates slightly.

The top and bottom of the Multi pictures will be cut off slightly.

ªPlaying BackRepeat Playback

If you continue to press the [1] Button for 5 seconds or longer, the Movie Camera switches to Repeat Playback Mode, and the [R !] Indication appears. (To cancel Repeat Playback Mode, set the [OFF/ON/MODE] Switch to [OFF].)

Listening to PlaybackSound throughHeadphones (NV-GS5only)

If you want to use the headphones to listen to the playback sound, set [AV JACK] on the [AV IN/OUT SETUP] Sub-Menu to [OUT/PHONES] and connect the headphones to the [PHONES] Socket (l6) on the Movie Camera. In this case, no sound (including a warning sound and shutter sound) will be reproduced through the built-in speaker of the Movie Camera.

ChoosingSoundduringPlayback

You can select the sound by using the [AUDIO OUT] setting on the [PLAYBACK FUNCTIONS] Sub-Menu. STEREO:Stereo Sound (main sound and sub sound)

L:Left channel sound (main sound)

R:Right channel sound (sub sound)

If you dub a tape recorded at the [12bit] selected as the [AUDIO REC] on the [RECORDING SETUP] Sub-Menu, playback sound becomes stereo sound regardless of the [AUDIO OUT] setting if [12bit AUDIO] is set to [MIX].

ªIndex Search Functions

Index Search may not be possible at the beginning of tape. Because Photoshot Index Signals are not recorded on still

pictures recorded in Continuous Photoshot Mode, the Photoshot Index Search Function cannot be used for these still pictures.

Scene Index Search may not function properly if the interval between 2 scene index signals is shorter than 1 minute.

ªPlayback Zoom Function

You cannot adjust the sound volume with the Remote Controller in Playback Zoom Mode.

If you turn off the Movie Camera power or if you switch from VCR Mode to Camera Mode, Playback Zoom Mode is automatically cancelled.

Even if Playback Zoom Functions are being used, images that are output from the DV Terminal (l6) or Digital Still Picture Terminal (l32) are not enlarged.

As you enlarge an image, the quality of image suffers. During a Playback Zoom, the Variable Speed Search

Function cannot be changed with the Remote Controller.

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