INITIAL SETTI NG

T ime Zone: UTC +09:00 TOKYO

Date / Time: 2007 /01/01 00:00:00 SET

F i n i sh

2 Tilt the joystick or turn the jog dial to set the year then press the joystick or dial.

The cursor moves to the month-setting column.

3 Set the month, day, hour, minute, and second in sequence in the same manner.

When you press the joystick or jog dial at “SET,” the cursor moves back to “Date/ Time.”

4 Move the cursor to “Finish” then press the joystick or dial.

The Initial Setting display disappears, and the clock setting is completed.

The camcorder enters the operation mode (Camera mode or Media mode) you selected with the power switch.

Once after the Initial Setting display disappears, the time zone and date/time settings can be changed using “Time Zone” (page 106) and “Clock Set” (page 107) of the OTHERS menu.

Notes

•If the clock setting is cleared because of exhaustion of the backup battery while no operation power was being supplied (no battery pack and no DC IN connection), the Initial Setting display will be displayed when you turn the camcorder on at the next opportunity.

•While the Initial Setting display is shown, no other operation except turning the power off is permitted until you finish the setting for this display.

Adjusting the LCD Monitor and Viewfinder

Adjusting the LCD Monitor

You can adjust the angle and the display

Preparations

 

conditions of the LCD monitor for the best view

 

in various shooting situations.

 

These adjustments of the LCD monitor have no

 

effect on pictures being recorded.

 

Turning on/off the LCD monitor

The LCD monitor turns on when it is opened and turns off when it is returned to the park position. To open, pull the monitor out horizontally from the park position to rotate it 90 degrees.

AF/MF

 

Full MF

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Adjusting the angle

Rotate the opened LCD monitor to the desired angle.

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Full MF

 

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It can be rotated as much as 90 degrees in the direction facing the subject and as much as 180 degrees in the opposite direction.

When you rotate it 90 degrees toward the subject, the image on the monitor becomes upside down, indicating the mirror image of the subject. The display direction of the textual information is converted to the readable direction.

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