Camcorder/Digital Camera Operating Instructions
Table Of Contents
- Main Features
- Quick Start Guide
- Recording on “Memory Stick” (DCR-TRV22/TRV33 only)
- Using this manual
- Checking supplied accessories
- Step 1 Preparing the power source
- Installing the battery pack
- Charging the battery pack
- Checking status of battery pack – Battery Info
- Connecting to a wall outlet
- Step 2 Setting the date and time
- Step 3 Using the touch panel
- Recording a picture
- Shooting backlit subjects – Back light function
- Shooting in the dark – NightShot/Super NightShot/Color Slow Shutter
- Checking recordings – End search/Edit search/Rec Review
- Playing back tape
- To display the screen indicators – Display function
- Viewing a recording on TV
- Recording still images on “Memory Stick” during tape recording standby or tape recording (DCR-TRV22/TRV33 only)
- Recording a still image on a tape – Tape Photo recording (DCR-TRV19 only)
- Self-timer recording
- Adjusting the white balance manually
- Using the wide mode
- Using the fader function
- Using special effects – Picture effect
- Using special effects – Digital effect (DCR-TRV22/TRV33 only)
- Using PROGRAM AE
- Adjusting the exposure manually
- Using spot light-metering function – Flexible Spot Meter
- Focusing manually
- Using spot focus function – Spot Focus
- Interval Recording
- Frame by frame recording – Frame recording
- Using the viewfinder
- Playing back tape with picture effect
- Playing back tape with digital effect (DCR-TRV22/TRV33 only)
- Enlarging images recorded on tape – Tape PB ZOOM (DCR-TRV22/TRV33 only)
- Quickly locating a scene – Zero set memory
- Searching the boundaries of recorded tape by title – Title search
- Searching a recording by date – Date search
- Searching for a photo – Photo search/Photo scan (DCR-TRV19 only)
- Dubbing tape
- Dubbing only desired scenes – Digital program editing (on tape)
- Recording video or TV programs
- Inserting a scene from a VCR – Insert editing
- Audio dubbing
- Superimposing a title on a cassette with Cassette Memory
- Making your own titles
- Labeling a cassette on a cassette with Cassette Memory
- Erasing all the data in Cassette Memory
- Using “Memory Stick”
- Inserting/Ejecting the “Memory Stick”
- Selecting image quality and size
- Recording still images on “Memory Stick” – Memory Photo recording
- Recording an image from tape as a still image
- Superimposing a still image in “Memory Stick” on an image – MEMORY MIX
- Interval Photo Recording
- Recording moving pictures on “Memory Stick” – MPEG MOVIE recording
- Self-timer recording
- Recording a picture from tape as a moving picture
- Recording edited pictures from tape as a moving picture – Digital program editing (on “Memory Stick”)
- Changing the recording folder
- Viewing a still image – Memory Photo playback
- Viewing a moving picture – MPEG MOVIE playback
- Choosing a playback folder
- Enlarging still images recorded on “Memory Stick” – Memory PB ZOOM
- Playing back images continuously – Slide show
- Preventing accidental erasure – Image protection
- Deleting images – DELETE
- Changing image size – Resize (DCR-TRV33 only)
- Writing a print mark – Print mark
- Viewing images with a computer – Introduction
- Connecting your camcorder to a computer using the USB cable (For Windows users)
- Viewing pictures recorded on tape on a computer – USB Streaming (For Windows users)
- Viewing images recorded on “Memory Stick” on a computer (For Windows users) (DCR-TRV22/TRV33 only)
- Connecting your camcorder to a computer using the USB cable (For Macintosh users) (DCR-TRV22/TRV33 only)
- Viewing images recorded on “Memory Stick” on a computer (For Macintosh users) (DCR-TRV22/TRV33 only)
- Capturing images from an analog video unit on a computer – Signal convert function (DCR-TRV22/TRV33 only)
- Changing the menu settings
- Troubleshooting
- Types of trouble and how to correct trouble
- Self-diagnosis display
- Warning indicators
- Warning messages
- Additional Information
- Usable cassettes
- About the “InfoLITHIUM” battery pack
- About i.LINK
- Using your camcorder abroad
- Maintenance information and precautions
- Specifications
- Identifying parts and controls
- Index
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Troubleshooting
Types of trouble and how to correct trouble
Symptom Cause and/or Corrective Actions
• The contrast between the subject and background is too
high. This is not a malfunction.
• This is not a malfunction.
• SLOW SHTR, Super NightShot* or Color Slow Shutter* is
activated. This is not a malfunction.
• If 10 minutes elapse after you set the POWER switch to
CAMERA or DEMO MODE is set to ON in the menu
settings without a cassette and the “Memory Stick”*
inserted, your camcorder automatically starts the
demonstration.
c Insert a cassette/a “Memory Stick”* or press the LCD
screen. The demonstration stops. You can also set
DEMO MODE to OFF in the menu settings (p. 183).
• NIGHTSHOT is slid to ON.
c Slide it to OFF (p. 34).
• NIGHTSHOT is slid to ON in a bright place.
c Slide it to OFF (p. 34).
• The back light function is active.
c Deactivate it (p. 33).
• BEEP is set to OFF in the menu settings.
c Set it to MELODY or NORMAL (p. 184).
c Set STEADYSHOT to OFF in the menu settings (p. 177).
• The power of the external flash (optional) is off or the
power source is not installed.
c Turn on the external flash (optional) or install the power
source.
•2 or more external flashes (optional) are attached.
c Only 1 external flash (optional) can be attached.
• PORTRAIT or SPORTS of PROGRAM AE is on when
recording in light from a discharge tube such as a
fluorescent lamp, sodium lamp or mercury lamp.
c Set PROGRAM AE to AUTO in the menu settings.
* DCR-TRV22/TRV33 only
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A vertical band appears when you
shoot a subject such as lights or a
candle flame against a dark
background.
A vertical band appears when you
shoot a very bright subject.
Some tiny spots in white, red, blue
or green appear on the screen.
An unknown picture appears on
the screen.
The picture is recorded in incorrect
or unnatural colors.
Picture appears too bright, and the
subject does not appear on the
screen.
The click of the shutter does not
sound.
Black bands appear when you
record a TV screen or computer
screen.
An external flash (optional) does
not work.
Flickering or changes in color
occurs.