We recommend our cassettes be used with your camcorder. Use of poor quality or damaged tapes can
contaminate the video heads, resulting in snow or no picture during playback. Head cleaning is not covered
under warranty. It is considered normal maintenance. The automatic head cleaner is activated whenever a
cassette is inserted or removed. This system minimizes the need for accessory cleaners or cleaning by a
Servicenter.
Insert and Remove Cassettes
OPEN
Button
1. Attach a power supply to the camcorder.
2. Slide
OPEN
and completely open the cassette
compartment cover.
3 .Press
EJECT
to open the cassette compartment.
Insert or remove the cassette.
4 .
tab
up
the
o u t .
The cassette should
in the
compartment. Do not force the cassette.
Gently press on the area labeled
PUSH
to close
the cassette compartment door.
5. After the cassette compartment is fully retracted,
close the cassette compartment cover.
Erase Protection
You can use your video cassettes over and over again. To erase a previous recording, just record over it.
Safety Tab
To Prevent Erasure
Close Safety Tab
(Expose Red)
To Record Again
Open Safety Tab
(Red Disappears)
The camcorder records in standard speed (SP). The
chart shows the maximum SP recording times for
some popular 8mm cassettes.
The camcorder can play back tapes in standard
speed (SP) or long play (LP) speed. The playback
speed is automatically selected by the camcorder.
The
LP
indicator appears in the electronic
viewfinder when the camcorder is playing back a
tape recorded in LP.
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