When you preset your child'sbirth date in your camcorder, you can put your child'sage in years and months on your tape. You can also preset the date of an event. Once you enter the birth date of your child, the clock inside your carncorder will automatically update age of your child. You can superimpose the age anytime on your recording.You can preset up to three birth dates or events.

Before you begin

Before you store a birth date in your camcorder, make sure that power source is connected, that the lithium battery is installed and that the date is correctly set.

How to store birth date

To store a birth date in your camcorder, see the following example and procedure. Example: Store "Aug. 3, 1987" in memory 2.

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Press the small green button on the

 

POWER switch and slide the POWER

 

switch

to CAMERA.

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Set the STANDBY switch up.

 

 

 

8TART / STOP

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Press TIME (NEXT) and AGE/EVENT

 

 

 

TIME(NEX'n AGFJEVENT

 

simultaneously for a few seconds until the

 

"1_ BIRTHDAY ..... 1900"

indicator appears

 

in the viewfinder.

m_BIRTHDA_

 

 

4

Press

DATE (+) to select

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Each time you press DATE (+), the display in the

 

viewfinder changes as follows:

 

[] BIRTHDAY --> [] BIRTHDAY

 

1"

[] EVENT_<__.__J

 

Although "EVENT" is displayed on I31,you can use it for age as well.

[] and [] can also be used to record event dates in memory.

Press TIME (NEXT).

The "1900" indicator blinks.

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Sony CCD-FX310 How to store birth date, Press the small green button on, Power switch and slide the Power, Event.J