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Troubleshooting
✤If these instructions do not solve your problem, contact your nearest Samsung authorized service center.
Symptom | Explanation/Solution |
You cannot switch the | Check the battery pack or the AC Power Adapter. |
camcorder on. |
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START/STOP button | Check the POWER switch is set to CAMERA. |
does not operate | You have reached the end of the cassette. |
while recording. | Check the record protection tab on the cassette. |
The camcorder goes | You have left the camcorder set to STBY for more |
off automatically. | than 5 minutes without using it. |
| The battery pack is fully exhausted. |
The battery pack is | The atmospheric temperature is too low. |
quickly exhausted. | The battery pack has not been charged fully. |
| The battery pack is completely dead, and cannot be |
| recharged, Use another battery pack. |
When you see a blue | The video heads may be dirty. |
screen during | Clean the head with a cleaning tape. |
playback. |
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A vertical strip | The contrast between the subject and the background |
appears on the | is too great for the camcorder to operate normally. |
screen when | Make the background bright to reduce the contrast or |
recording a dark | use the BLC function while you are recording brighter. |
background. |
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The image in the | The Viewfinder lens has not been adjusted. |
viewfinder is blurred. | Adjust the viewfinder control lever until the indicators |
| displayed on the viewfinder come into sharp focus. |
Auto focus does not | Check the M.FOCUS menu. |
work. | Auto focus does not work in the Manual Focus mode. |
Play, FF or REW | Check the POWER switch. Set the power switch to |
button does not work. | PLAYER. |
| You have reached the beginning or end of the cassette. |
When you see a | This is normal operation and it is not a failure or |
broken block image | defect. |
during the RECORD |
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SEARCH. |
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