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Table of contents

Checking supplied accessories ..................

3

Main Features ..............................................

4

Quick Start Guide

 

– Recording on a tape ...............................

14

– Recording on a “Memory Stick”

 

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16

Getting Started

 

Using this manual .....................................

22

Step 1 Preparing the power supply .......

28

Installing the battery pack ................

28

Charging the battery pack .................

29

Connecting to a wall socket ..............

35

Step 2 Setting the date and time ............

37

Step 3 Inserting a cassette .......................

40

Recording – Basics

 

Recording a picture ...................................

42

Shooting a backlit subject

 

– BACK LIGHT ............................

52

Shooting in the dark

NightShot

Super NightShot

Colour Slow Shutter

 

........................ 53

Self-timer recording

..... 56

Superimposing the date and time

on pictures

.............. 58

Checking recordings

 

END SEARCH

EDITSEARCH

– Rec Review.................

59

Playback – Basics

 

Playing back a tape ...................................

61

To display the screen indicators

 

– Display function .......................

62

Viewing recordings on TV .......................

68

Advanced Recording Operations

Recording still images on a “Memory

 

Stick” while recording on a tape

 

..........................................

71

Recording still images on a tape

 

– Tape Photo recording

 

.........

75

Using the wide mode ...............................

77

Using the fader function ..........................

80

Using special effects – Picture effect ......

83

Using special effects

 

– Digital effect

.... 85

Using the PROGRAM AE function ........

88

Adjusting the exposure manually ..........

91

Focusing manually ....................................

92

Interval recording

 

....................

94

Frame by frame recording

 

– Frame recording

 

.........

96

Superimposing a title ...............................

98

Making your own titles ..........................

101

Using the built-in light ...........................

104

Inserting a scene................

108

Advanced Playback Operations

Playing back a tape with picture effects

........................................

110

Playing back a tape with digital effects

.............................

112

Enlarging recorded images

 

– Tape PB ZOOM........

114

Quickly locating a scene

 

– ZERO SET MEMORY

 

.......

116

Searching for a recording by date

 

– DATE SEARCH

 

.......

118

Searching for a photo

 

– PHOTO SEARCH/PHOTO SCAN

.............................

120

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