troubleshooting

Menu

Symptom

Explanation/Solution

Menu items are

dimmed.

108

You cannot select the dimmed menu items in the current recording/playback mode.

Most of the menu items cannot be selected when you set the Smart Auto function.

If there is no storage media inserted, it cannot be selected and will be dimmed on the menu : "Storage Type", "Storage Info", "Format", etc.

There are some functions you cannot activate simultaneously.

The following list shows examples of unworkable combinations of functions and menu items. If you want to set the desired functions, do not set the following items first.

<Cannot Use>

<Because of the following setting>

 

"Anti-Shake (HDIS)",

 

"iSCENE: Night, Darkness"

"Digital Zoom"

"Digital Effect : Mirror, Mosaic,

 

Step printing",

 

"Video Resolution: Web Fine, Web Normal"

"Digital Effect : Mirror,

"Anti-Shake (HDIS)", "16:9 Wide"

Mosaic, Step printing"

 

"Digital Effect"

"iSCENE: Night, Darkness"

"Focus : Face Detection"

"iSCENE", "Digital Effect",

"Video Resolution: Web Fine, Web Normal"

 

"Back Light"

"iSCENE: Night, Darkness"

"Fader"

"Time Lapse REC"

"Smart Auto"

"Video Resolution: Web Fine, Web Normal"

"16:9 Wide"

"Video Resolution: Web Fine, Web Normal"

"Anti-Shake (HDIS)"

"Video Resolution: Web Fine, Web Normal",

"iSCENE: Night, Darkness"

 

"iSCENE: Night, Darkness"

"Anti-Shake (HDIS)", "Digital Effect"

 

 

The following list shows examples of some functions you cannot activate when the camcorder is in a specific mode. If you want to set the desired function, change the mode first.

<Cannot Use>

<If the camcorder is in the following mode:>

"LCD Brightness",

"Play mode": Thumbnail index screen or full

"LCD Colour", "Demo"

image display mode of videos (or photos).

"Transparency",

 

"TV Display"

"Play mode": Thumbnail index screen mode

of videos (or photos).

 

"Storage Type",

"Play mode": Full image display mode of

"Auto LCD Off",

videos (or photos).

"Default Set"

 

"Beep Sound"

"Play mode": Full image display mode of

videos.

 

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Samsung SMX-C20RP/MEA, SMX-C24BP/EDC, SMX-C20RP/EDC, SMX-C20LP/XEU, SMX-C24RP/EDC Cannot Use Because of the following setting

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