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ADVANCED FEATURES
Night-Alive
Makes dark subjects or areas even brighter than
they would be under good natural lighting.
1) Set the Power Switch
!
to “
” or “
”.
2) Press NIGHT-ALIVE
w
repeatedly until
the
desired mode appears.
A NIGHT AUTO: The shutter speed is auto-
matically adjusted (maximum 1/6 sec.).
1 NIGHT 10X (only when the Power Switch
!
is set to “
”): The shutter speed is set to 1/6th of
a second to provide 10 times the sensitivity.
2 NIGHT 60X (only when the Power Switch
!
is set to “
”): The shutter speed is set to 1 second
to provide 60 times the sensitivity.
• To cancel the effect, press NIGHT-ALIVE
w
repeatedly until “OFF” appears.
• During Night-Alive, the following cannot be
activated: “Picture Stabilizer”, “Program AE With
Special Effects”, “Digital Effects” and “S.LX” in
CAMERA MENU (
pg. 19).
• Night-Alive does not work when LIGHT OFF/
AUTO/ON
#
is set to “AUTO” or “ON” (
pg. 13,
“Video Light”).
• During Night-Alive, it may be difficult to bring the
camcorder into focus. To prevent this, use of a
tripod is recommended.
Fade/Wipe Effects
Fade- or wipe-in works at recording start, and fade-
or wipe-out works at recording end.
1) Set the Power Switch
!
to “
”.
2) Press FADE/WIPE
(
repeatedly until the
desired mode appears.
3) Press the Recording Start/Stop Button
0
to
activate fade-in/out or wipe-in/out.
• Pressing and holding the Recording Start/Stop
Button
0
allows you to vary the length for the
image during fade in/out or wipe in/out.
• To cancel a fade or wipe, press FADE/WIPE
(
repeatedly until “OFF” appears.
FADER: Fades in/out to a black screen.
MOSAIC (Fader): Gradually turns/returns the
picture into/from a mosaic pattern.
SHUTTER (Wipe): A black screen moves in
from the top and bottom, closing over the image
like a shutter, or a new image pushes open the
black screen vertically from the center.
SLIDE (Wipe): A black screen moves in from
the left to gradually cover the image, or a new
image moves in from right to left.
DOOR (Wipe): Wipes in as the two halves of
a black screen open to the left and right, revealing
the scene, or wipes out and the black screen
reappears from left and right to cover the scene.
CORNER (Wipe): Wipes in on a black screen
from the upper right to the lower left corner,
revealing the scene, or wipes out from lower left to
upper right, leaving a black screen.
WINDOW (Wipe): Wipes in on a black screen
from the center of the screen towards the corners,
revealing the scene, or wipe out from the corners
to the center, leaving a black screen.
