Moisture condensation

If your camcorder is brought directly from a cold place to a warm place, moisture may condense inside your camcorder, on the surface of the tape, or on the lens. In this state, the tape may stick to the head drum and be damaged or your camcorder may not operate correctly. If there is moisture inside your camcorder, [%Z Moisture condensation. Eject the cassette] or [% Moisture condensation. Turn off for 1H.] appears. The indicator will not appear when the moisture condenses on the lens.

xIf moisture condensation has occurred

None of the functions except cassette ejection will work. Eject the cassette, turn off your camcorder, and leave it for about one hour with the cassette lid open. Your camcorder can be used again when both of the following conditions are met:

•The warning message does not appear when the power is turned on.

•Neither % or Z flash when a cassette is inserted and video operation buttons are touched.

If moisture starts to condense, your camcorder sometimes cannot detect condensation. If this happens, the cassette is sometimes not ejected for 10 seconds after the cassette lid is opened. This is not a malfunction. Do not close the cassette lid until the cassette is ejected.

xNote on moisture condensation

Moisture may condense when you bring your camcorder from a cold place into a warm place (or vice versa) or when you use your camcorder in a humid place as shown below.

•When you bring your camcorder from a ski slope into a place warmed up by a heating device.

•When you bring your camcorder from an air conditioned car or room into a hot place outside.

•When you use your camcorder after a squall or a shower.•When you use your camcorder in a hot and humid place.
xHow to avoid moisture condensation

When you bring your camcorder from a cold place into a warm place, put your camcorder in a plastic bag and seal it tightly. Remove the bag when the air temperature inside the plastic bag has reached the surrounding temperature (after about one hour).

Video head

If you play back a tape recorded in HDV format, the image and sound may freeze for a while (about 0.5 seconds).

This occurs if the HDV signals cannot be recorded or played back correctly because of dirt on the tape or video head. Depending on the cassette, this fairly infrequently occurs even if the cassette is brand new or is not used a lot.

If this freezing point is created while playing back, you can solve this problem and see the pictures by rewinding after slightly forwarding. Such a freezing point cannot be recovered if it was created while recording.

To prevent such a problem, use the Sony mini DV cassette.

•If the following problem occurs, clean the video heads for 10 seconds with the cleaning cassette.

–Playback pictures do not move.–Playback pictures do not appear.–The sound breaks off.

–[x Dirty video head. Use a cleaning cassette.] appears on the screen during recording.

–The following phenomenon occurs in HDV format.
The playbackThe playback screen
screen pauses.goes blank.

 

(Solid blue screen)

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