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Mastering
the Basics
Basic Recording
Have you completed the following steps?
• Attached a power source (p. 8).
• Loaded a cassette (p. 11).
• Removed the lens cap and fastened the shoulder strap (p. 85).
• Chosen the display: viewfinder or LCD screen (p. 18)
• Extended the viewfinder (p. 85)/adjusted the LCD screen (p. 18).
You may also want to charge the backup battery (p. 87) in order to set the date and
time display (p. 36).
POWETR
OFF
MOVIE
P.SCAN
PHOTO
VCR
POWETR
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MOVIE
P.SCAN
PHOTO
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Before you start recording
To record
1. Push the small black button on the POWER switch in to the left
and hold, turn the POWER switch to MOVIE.
• The camera automatically sets to record pause mode. PAUSE appears in the
display.
• The camera power indicator lights up red.
• The confirmation beep sounds.
• The camera will turn itself off if you leave it in record pause mode for more
than about five minutes. To return to record pause mode, set the POWER
switch to OFF and then back to MOVIE.
2. Slide the program selector to
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• This selects the camera’s Easy Recording program. It allows you to simply
point and shoot without making any manual adjustments (see p. 45).
3. Press and release the red start/stop button once to begin recording.
• The tally lamp flashes and REC appears in the display.
