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Table of contents

Main Features ..........................................

4

Quick Start Guide

 

– Recording on tape ..................................

12

– Recording on “Memory Stick” .............

14

Getting Started

 

Using this manual .....................................

20

Checking supplied accessories ................

23

Step 1 Preparing the power source .........

24

Installing the battery pack .................

24

Charging the battery pack .................

25

Connecting to a wall socket ..............

29

Step 2 Setting the date and time .............

30

Step 3 Using the touch panel ...................

33

Recording – Basics

 

Recording a picture ...................................

36

Shooting backlit subjects

 

– Back light function ....................

46

Shooting in the dark

 

– NightShot/Super NightShot/

 

Colour Slow Shutter ....................

47

Checking recordings – End search/Edit

 

search/Rec Review ............................

50

Using PROGRAM AE ..............................

75

Adjusting the exposure manually ..........

77

Using spot light-metering function

 

– Flexible Spot Meter .........................

78

Focusing manually ....................................

79

Using spot focus function

 

– Spot Focus ........................................

81

Interval Recording ....................................

82

Frame by frame recording

 

– Frame recording ..............................

84

Recording with all the pixels

 

– Progressive Recording Mode ........

85

Using the viewfinder ................................

87

Advanced Playback Operations

Playing back tape with picture effect .....

89

Playing back tape with digital effect ......

90

Enlarging images recorded on tape

 

– Tape PB ZOOM ...............................

91

Quickly locating a scene

 

– Zero set memory .............................

93

Searching the boundaries of recorded

 

tape by title – Title search .................

94

Searching a recording by date

 

– Date search .......................................

95

Editing

Dubbing tape .............................................

97

Playback – Basics

 

Playing back tape ......................................

52

To display the screen indicators

 

– Display function .......................

53

Viewing a recording on TV .....................

58

Dubbing only desired scenes – Digital

 

program editing (on tape) ...............

100

Recording video or TV programmes ...

111

Inserting a scene from a VCR

 

– Insert editing ..................................

115

Audio dubbing ........................................

117

Advanced Recording Operations

Recording still images on “Memory

 

Stick” during tape recording

 

standby or tape recording .................

60

Self-timer recording ..................................

62

Adjusting the white balance manually

 

...............................................................

64

Superimposing a title on a cassette

 

with Cassette Memory .....................

123

Making your own titles ..........................

126

Labelling a cassette on a cassette with

 

Cassette Memory ..............................

128

Erasing all the data in Cassette

 

Memory .............................................

129

 

Using the wide mode ...............................

66

“Memory Stick” Operations

 

 

Using the fader function ..........................

68

Using “Memory Stick”

 

 

Using special effects – Picture effect

71

 

8

– Introduction ...................................

130

Using special effects – Digital effect

72