5HOLD (display hold) button

Pressing this button instantly freezes the time data displayed in the counter display section. (The time code generator continues normal

2 operation.) Pressing this button again releases the hold. One use of this feature is to determine the exact time of a particular shot.

See Section 2-8 “Warnings and Indications on the Display Panel” (page 2-38) for

more information about the counter display.

6RESET (counter reset) button

This button resets the time data displayed on the counter display section to “00 : 00 : 00 : 00” and the user bit data to “00000000”.

7DISPLAY switch

Depending on the settings of the F-RUN/SET/R-RUN switch and the REAL TIME switch, this switch selects data to display in the counter display section, as follows:

CTL: CTL

TC: Time code

DATA: The item selected by the DATA DISPLAY switch

For more information, see “Time code displays” (page 2-40).

8ADVANCE button

For setting the time code or user bits, each press of this button increments the flashing digit selected by the SHIFT button. Pressing this button while holding down the HOLD button decrements the flashing digit.

Hold down this button and press the SHIFT button to enter the VTR menu mode.

For details about the VTR menu, see Section 4-10 “VTR Menu Display in the Display Panel” (page 4-99).

9SHIFT button

For setting the time code or user bits, this button selects the digit to be changed. The selected digit flashes.

For more information, see Section 4-5-2 “Setting the Time Code” (page 4-29).

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