Operating Instructions
Table Of Contents
- Before you begin
- Getting started
- Basic operations
- Advanced operations
- Using alternative power sources
- Changing the mode settings
- Photo recording
- Shooting with all the pixels ﾐ PROG. SCAN
- Using the FADER function
- Shooting with backlighting
- Using the wide mode function
- Enjoying picture effect
- Recording with various effects ﾐ digital effect
- Shooting with manual adjustment
- Using the PROGRAM AE function
- Focusing manually
- Interval recording
- Cut recording
- Superimposing a title
- Making a custom title
- Labeling a cassette
- Watching on a TV screen
- Viewing the picture with the picture effect
- Viewing the picture with the digital effect
- Searching the boundaries of recorded tape with date ﾐ date search
- Searching the boundaries of recorded tape with title ﾐ title search
- Searching for a photo ﾐ photo search/photo scan
- Returning to a pre-registered position
- Displaying recording data ﾐ data code function
- Editing onto another tape
- Editing partially on a mini DV tape ﾐ DV synchro-editing
- Recording from a VCR or TV
- Replacing recording on a tape ﾐ insert editing
- Audio dubbing
- Memory card slot operations
- Using the memory card slot ﾐ introduction
- Recording an image from a mini DV tape as a still image
- Copying still images from a mini DV tape ﾐ photo save
- Recording still images on PC cards (not supplied) ﾐ memory photo recording
- Viewing a still picture ﾐ memory photo playback
- Preventing accidental erasure ﾐ PROTECT
- Deleting images
- Copying the image recorded with the memory card slot to mini DV tapes
- Playing back images in a continuous loop ﾐ SLIDE SHOW
- Additional information
- Usable cassettes and playback modes
- Charging the vanadium-lithium battery in the camcorder
- Resetting the date and time
- Simple setting of clock by time difference
- Tips for using the battery pack
- Maintenance information and precautions
- Using your camcorder abroad
- Trouble check
- Self-diagnosis function
- Specifications
- Identifying the parts
- Warning indicators
- Index
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Advanced operations
Shooting with all the pixels – PROG. SCAN
When modifying the digital images on your personal computer, set PROG. SCAN to ON
before shooting. You can record the images on a mini DV tape frame by frame with higher
resolution.
Since the image taken in progressive mode does not go out of focus even in a pause, it is
especially useful when you analyze high-speed actions such as sport scenes.
(1) Press MENU to display the menu in Standby mode.
(2) Turn the control dial to select
, then press the dial.
(3) Turn the control dial to select PROG. SCAN, then press the dial.
(4) Turn the control dial to select ON, then press the dial.
(5) Press MENU to erase the menu display. The PROG. SCAN indicator lights up.
To return to normal mode
Select OFF in step 4, then press the control dial.
Note on the progressive mode
The normal TV broadcast divides the screen into two finer fields and displays them in turns
every 1/60 of a second. Thus, the actual image displayed in an instant covers only half of the
apparent image area. Displaying the whole image simultaneously on a full screen is called
displaying with all the pixels. In this mode the picture is clearer than one in normal mode,
but moving objects appear jerky since the picture is read/output every about 1/15 second.
The setting at the factory
This camcorder is originally programed to record still/moving pictures on a mini DV tape in
the normal TV format (Interlace format).
When shooting under fluorescent light
When shooting in the progressive mode under fluorescent light or light bulb, a rare
phenomenon may happen in which the screen lights up brightly (Flicker phenomenon). This
is not a malfunction. If you want to stop this phenomenon, set PROG. SCAN to OFF in the
menu system.
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MENU
MANUA L SET
AUTO SHTR
PROG . SCAN
[MENU] :END
MANUA L SET
AUTO SHTR
PROG . SCAN OFF
RETURN ON
[MENU] :END
MANUA L SET
AUTO SHTR
PROG . SCAN ON
RETURN
[MENU] :END
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MENU
PROG . SCAN