Table of contents

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

4

Quick Start Guide

 

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

8

– Recording on a “Memory Stick” ......

10

Getting Started

 

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

12

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

14

Step 1 Preparing the power source .....

15

Installing or removing the battery

 

pack ............................................

15

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

16

Connecting to a wall outlet ...........

19

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

20

Step 3 Using the touch panel ...............

23

Recording – Basics

 

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

25

Shooting backlit subjects

 

– Back light function ................

34

Shooting in the dark

 

– NightShot/Super NightShot/

Color Slow Shutter ..................

34

Checking recordings

 

– End search/Edit search/Rec

 

Review .............................................

37

Playback – Basics

 

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

39

To display the screen indicators

 

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

40

Viewing a recording on the TV ...........

44

Advanced Recording

 

Operations

 

Recording still images on a “Memory

 

Stick” during tape recording

 

standby or tape recording .............

46

Self-timer recording ..............................

48

Adjusting the white balance manually

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

49

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

50

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

52

Using special effects – Picture effect ..

55

Using special effects – Digital effect ...

56

Using PROGRAM AE ..........................

59

Adjusting the exposure manually ......

61

Using the spot light-metering function

– Flexible Spot Meter .....................

62

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

63

Using the spot focus function

 

– Spot Focus ....................................

65

Interval Recording ................................

66

Frame by frame recording

 

– Frame recording ..........................

67

Recording with all the pixels

 

– Progressive Recording Mode ....

68

Using the viewfinder ............................

69

Advanced Playback

 

Operations

 

Playing back a tape with picture effect

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

71

Playing back a tape with digital effect

 

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

72

Enlarging images recorded on the tape

– Tape PB ZOOM ...........................

73

Quickly locating a scene

 

– Zero set memory .........................

74

Searching the boundaries of the

 

recorded tape by title

 

– Title search ...................................

75

Searching a recording by date

 

– Date search ...................................

76

Editing

 

Dubbing a tape ......................................

78

Dubbing only desired scenes

 

Digital program editing (on a tape)

........................................................... 80

Recording video or TV programs .......

89

Inserting a scene from a VCR

 

– Insert editing ................................

91

Audio dubbing ......................................

93

Superimposing a title on a cassette with

Cassette Memory ............................

97

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

99

Labeling a cassette with Cassette

 

Memory .........................................

100

Erasing all the data in Cassette Memory

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

101

“Memory Stick” Operations

 

Using a “Memory Stick”

 

– Introduction ...............................

102

Selecting the quality and size of image

data .................................................

105

Recording still images on a “Memory

Stick”

 

– Memory Photo recording .........

109

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