User Guide

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Using the Full
Range of Features
Recording Still Images onto a Tape
You can record still images like photographs. The camcorder records the picture
and sound to tape for several seconds. The exposure is automatically adjusted.
Copy still images automatically to a memory card ( 137) for transfer to a PC for
image enhancement and printout. Also, starting your shooting with a still image
makes it easy to find the beginning again later with the Photo Search function
( 83).
You can take a still image at any time during regular video recording, or you can
put the camcorder into record pause mode first, then take a still image.
Press the PHOTO button fully down and the still image will be taken
immediately.
The camcorder takes the image immediately, and then records the “photo” to the
tape for approximately 6 seconds. During this time the camcorder also records
the sound, and the display shows the still image.
A counter display appears, and counts up as the camcorder records the image.
The camcorder returns to record pause mode.
1. Press the PHOTO button halfway down and hold it.
“PHOTO” flashes at the bottom right of display.
Exposure is locked.
During autofocus
F
flashes white in the display as the camcorder adjusts the
focus and it is displayed continuously as a green mark when the camcorder
is ready to take the still image.
During record pause mode
During record mode
PHOTO
To take still images on a memory card, see p. 106.
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