Precautions and maintenance (Continued)

•Store in a well-ventilated location subject to little dirt or dust.

•To prevent mold, periodically clean the lens as described above. It is recommended that you operate your camcorder about once a month to keep it in optimum state for a long time.

On charging the pre-installed rechargeable battery

Your camcorder has a pre-installed rechargeable battery to retain the date, time, and other settings even when the POWER switch is set to OFF (CHG). The pre- installed rechargeable battery is always charged while your camcorder is connected to the wall socket via the AC Adaptor or while the battery pack is attached. The rechargeable battery will be fully discharged in about 3 months if you do not use your camcorder at all. Use your camcorder after charging the pre-installed rechargeable battery.

However, even if the pre-installed rechargeable battery is not charged, the camcorder operation will not be affected as long as you are not recording the date.

xProcedures

Connect your camcorder to a wall socket using the supplied AC Adaptor, and leave it with the POWER switch set to OFF (CHG) for more than 24 hours.

Specifications

System

Video compression format

AVCHD (HD)/MPEG2 (SD)/JPEG (Still images)

Audio compression format

Dolby Digital 2/5.1ch

Dolby Digital 5.1 Creator

Video signal

PAL color, CCIR standards 1080/50i specification

Usable discs

8cm DVD-RW/DVD+RW/DVD-R/

DVD+R DL

Recording format

Movie

HD:

AVCHD 1080/50i SD:

DVD-RW: DVD-VIDEO (VIDEO mode), DVD-Video Recording (VR mode)

DVD+RW: DVD+RW Video

DVD-R/DVD+R DL: DVD-VIDEO

Still image

Exif Ver.2.2*1

Recording time

DVD-RW/DVD+RW/DVD-R:

AVC HD 12M (HQ+): Approx. 15 min

AVC HD 9M (HQ): Approx. 20 min

AVC HD 7M (SP): Approx. 25 min

AVC HD 5M (LP): Approx. 32 min

SD 9M (HQ): Approx. 20 min

SD 6M (SP): Approx. 30 min

SD 3M (LP): Approx. 60 min

DVD+R DL:

AVC HD 12M (HQ+): Approx. 27 min

AVC HD 9M (HQ): Approx. 35 min

AVC HD 7M (SP): Approx. 45 min

AVC HD 5M (LP): Approx. 60 min

SD 9M (HQ): Approx. 35 min

SD 6M (SP): Approx. 55 min

SD 3M (LP): Approx. 110 min

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