About the Carl Zeiss lens

Your camcorder is equipped with a Carl Zeiss lens, which was developed jointly by Carl Zeiss, in Germany, and Sony Corporation, and produces superior images. It adopts the MTF measurement system for video cameras and offers a quality typical of a Carl Zeiss lens. Also, the lens for your camcorder is T-coated to suppress unwanted reflections and faithfully reproduce colors.

MTF= Modulation Transfer Function. The number value indicates the amount of light from a subject coming into the lens.

About the marks used in this manual

The operations available depend on the disc used. The following marks are used to indicate the type of disc you can use for a particular operation.

These marks indicate the discs that can be used when recording with HD (high definition) image quality.

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