(High temperature warning) Slow flashing

•The temperature of your camcorder is getting higher. Turn off your camcorder and leave it for a while in a cool place.

Fast flashing*

•The temperature of your camcorder is extremely high. Turn off your camcorder and leave it for a while in a cool place.

(Warning indicator pertaining to “Memory Stick Duo”)

•No “Memory Stick Duo” is inserted (p. 26).

(Warning indicators pertaining to “Memory Stick Duo” formatting)*

•The “Memory Stick Duo” is damaged.

•The “Memory Stick Duo” is not formatted correctly (p. 60, 105).

(Warning indicator pertaining to incompatible “Memory Stick Duo”)*

•An incompatible “Memory Stick Duo” is inserted (p. 60, 105).

- (Warning indicator pertaining to the write-protect of the “Memory Stick Duo”)*

•The write-protect tab on the “Memory Stick Duo” is set to lock (p. 105).

•Access to the “Memory Stick Duo” was restricted on another device.

(Warning indicator pertaining to the flash)

Fast flashing

• There is something wrong with the flash.

(Warning indicator pertaining to camera-shake warning)

•The amount of lights is not sufficient, so camera-shake easily occurs. Use the flash.

•The camcorder is unsteady, so camera- shake easily occurs. Hold the camcorder steady with both hands and shoot the image. However, note that the camera- shake warning indicator does not disappear.

*You hear a melody when the warning indicators appear on the screen (p. 72).

Examples of warning messages

If messages appear on the screen, follow the instructions.

xDisc

Z Recording on disc disabled.

•A malfunction has occurred with the disc and the disc cannot be used.

Playback prohibited.

 

 

• You are trying to play back an

 

incompatible disc with your camcorder.

Troubleshooting

Z Need to unfinalize disc.

• You are trying to play back an image

 

recorded with a copyright protection

 

signal.

 

 

 

 

•To record on the finalized DVD+RW/ DVD-RW (VIDEO mode in the case of SD (standard definition) image quality), unfinalize it (p. 61).

Z Disc error. Remove disc.

• Your camcorder cannot recognize the disc, because the disc is incompatible, has scratches.

Z Disc error. Unsupported format.

• The disc recorded in the different format code from your camcorder. Formatting the

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