6
POWER
1.
Supply power.
From Battery:
Take the battery with the arrow on the back pointing downwards, and fit it onto the back of the camera
below the viewfinder. Slide it down until you hear a click.
DO NOT FORCE THE BATTERY-it should slide down easily and if it doesn’t you probably need to
readjust its position. It is easy to damage the terminals by forcing it and if this happens the battery can no
longer be used.
From Mains: Plug in the charger, plug the mains terminal into it and connect the oblong terminal in the
same way as the battery. Be very careful of trailing wires. If the wire is tight, or it lies on a piece of floor
where people are likely to walk you must adjust your position or use another power point.
2.
Removing the battery or mains terminal
.
You do this by pressing the ‘batt release’ button to the right of the viewfinder. With the
button pressed, slide the battery or main terminal UP and off the camera.
YOU MUST USE THE BATT RELEASE BUTTON TO REMOVE THE POWER
SUPPLY.
3. Battery charging:
The Z1 takes ‘L’ size batteries. The multi-purpose charger is designed so that ‘L’ batteries slide on in one
direction and ‘M’ size batteries in another.
Slide the battery from the middle to the left onto the ‘L’ terminals on the charger. You should feel it click
into place.
If the charger is correctly plugged in, it will make a noise when it is switched on. The length of battery
life will appear on the charger’s LCD screen. When the battery is fully charged the LCD screen will show
‘FULL’.
You do not need to use a release button to take it off- just slide it sideways and it should come free.
In order to maintain battery life, you should always use a battery until it is totally or very nearly totally
discharged. You should not use a discharged battery again until it is fully recharged.
The large Long-life batteries will give you approximately 6
½
hours
with the LCD screen closed.
Using
the LCD screen considerably cuts down the amount of time on the battery- don’t count on more than 4
hours if you are using the LCD screen a lot.
Microphones that require ‘phantom power’ (power from the camera) such as the Sennheiser 416 also take
a toll on the battery life.
SWITCHING ON AND OFF
Make sure the battery or mains terminal is safely and securely connected. Locate
the switch where your thumb would be if you were shooting handheld- it is part
of the record button. Push down the little green button in the middle of the switch
and slide it ether to ‘Camera’ or to ‘VCR’ depending which function you want.
To switch off, slide the switch to the central ‘off’ position.
