2 Push the VTR START button on the camcorder or the VTR button on the lens.

The camcorder starts recording in the single trigger mode of the Manual Interval Rec mode. The TALLY indicator (green) in the viewfinder flashes (2 flashes/second) and the message “MANU

INTERVAL *FRAME” flashes on the viewfinder screen.3 Each time you press the VTR START button or VTR button, the camcorder captures and stores the picture data of the preset number

of frames. The REC indicator (red) is on while the camcorder is capturing the picture in the memory. The camcorder stores picture data (for about 5 seconds) in memory, and actually records the stored picture data on the tape. The tape runs intermittently.

To stop the recording in the single trigger mode

You can stop the recording in the single triger mode of the Manual Rec Interval mode using the following two methods. However, the tape may continue to run to record the picture data stored in the memory at the instant the tape stopped.

Press the EJECT button.

Set the POWER switch to OFF.

Setting the continuous trigger mode

1 Follow the procedure in steps 1 to 9 in “Setting the single trigger mode” on page 3-40.

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