Viewfinder Screen Indications

There are four types of indication screen which appear in the viewfinder, as follows.

•Normal indications

These show the operating state of the camcorder. (See page 74.)

•Status indications

Pressing the MENU switch up while the normal indications are present calls a display of current settings. (See page 77.)

•Basic menu

“CHECK DIAG” appears before basic menu page 1 when the self diagnostic function has detected an abnormality (see page 82).

Display by holding the

 

Status indications

 

 

 

MENU switch up while

 

 

 

the normal indications

 

 

 

are present.

 

￿ W H I T E ￿ : ￿ A ￿ 3 2￿0 0K￿ ￿ ￿

 

 

 

 

￿ A . I R I S : ￿ S T D ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿

 

 

 

 

￿ M A T R IX￿ : ￿ S T D ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿

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￿ D C C + ￿ ￿ : ￿ O F F ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿

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￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿

￿ ￿ ￿

 

 

 

￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿ ￿

￿ ￿ ￿

 

 

 

￿ ￿ ￿ ￿S￿S￿￿￿: ￿O F￿F ￿￿ ￿ ￿

 

 

 

 

B￿A￿T T￿: ￿￿ 1￿3 .￿0 ￿V

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This provides settings for the lens iris, shutter speed and so forth, and also a titling screen. (See the section “Viewfinder Basic Menu” on page 78.)

•Advanced menu

This provides settings for the center marker, zebra pattern, viewfinder screen indications, and so forth.

Display by moving the POWER switch to the ON position.

Normal indications

REC

TCG 12:34:56:00

NG

AUTO BLACK

 

-OK-

198

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Screen

(See the section “Viewfinder Advanced Menu” on page 83.)

Changing the Viewfinder Display

Use the buttons and switches shown in the following figure to switch the viewfinder display among the

Switch by pressing the MENU switch down or press and turn the MENU dial downward.

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:LOW LIGHT 98 04 01 SS : 1/1000 10:00AM

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mA.IRIS : ± 0￿

DTL LEV: ± 0￿

M.BLACK: ± 0￿

STRETCH: ± 0￿

SHUTTER: OFF￿

and Indications

normal indications, basic menu pages and advanced menu pages.

MENU dial

STATUS

ONOFF MENU

POWER switch

 

 

MENU switch

 

 

Displaying the normal indications and switching to the basic menu

Basic menu

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Page 2

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mSKIN DTL:OFF￿ DL LEV :STD￿

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mTITLE IND(YESmPUSH)￿

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To display the normal indications, move the POWER switch to the ON position.

To switch to and from the basic menu, use the MENU switch or MENU dial.

a)The menu configuration differs according to the camcorder’s switch settings, the connected VCR, and the type of input signal. A seven-page configuration results when all of the basic menu pages are displayed.

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