Hitachi DZ-BD70AF Owners Guide - Page 5

Table of Contents Important Information 2 For Your Safety 2 Precautions 2 IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 4 Introduction 7 This camcorder makes all of the following possible 7 Choosing a disc to suit your purpose 8 How to Read this Instruction Manual 10 Before Using the Product - Be sure to read this information 12 Checking Provided Accessories 13 Names of Parts 14 How to Open and Use the LCD Monitor ...........19 Recording/Playing Using the Viewfinder ..........20 Let's Get Started 21 Preparing 21 Setting up the battery pack 21 Turning on the Power Changing the display language 22 Setting the date and time 23 Recording Movies to a BD 24 Recording Movies to the HDD (DZ-BD7HA) ...25 Recording Stills to an SD card 26 Playing Recorded Movies/Stills Deleting Recorded Movies/Stills Functions and Characteristics of HDD/BD/DVD/Cards 29 About HDD/BD/DVD 30 About cards 32 Cautions for discs and cards 32 Inserting a BD or DVD 33 When loading a new BD-RE/BD-R/DVD-RW 35 Battery Pack 36 CHARGE lamp status and charging time .....36 Continuous recording time with a fully charged battery 36 Connecting the camcorder to a wall outlet ....37 Detaching the DC power cord/battery pack from the camcorder 37 Efficient Use of the Battery 38 Recording 39 Recording Movies 39 Using the Quick Start function 40 Information Display During Recording ........42 Recording Still Pictures 45 Viewing 47 Playback (Watching Your Recordings 47 Playing back the last recorded scene 47 Deleting the last recorded scene 48 Choosing and playing back a scene 48 Choosing and playing back multiple scenes .49 Jumping to the designated scene 50 Adjusting speaker volume during movie playback 52 Information Display During Playback ..........52 Simple functions you can use during playback or playback pause 54 Playing still pictures on a card automatically (Slide Show 55 Capturing a still picture from a movie (PHOTO Capture 56 Playing back scenes repeatedly (Repeat Play 56 Various Recording Techniques 57 How to Operate the Menu 57 Menu (While Recording 58 How to use the LCD/EVF setup and initial setup 60 About the demonstration function 61 Magnified Recording (Optical Zoom and Digital Zoom 62 Recording at Close Range (Macro Recording) ..63 Using the Separately-Sold Lenses to Increase the Wide-Angle or Telephoto Effect 64 Adjusting the Focus Manually (Manual Focus) .65 Adjusting the Brightness of the Image (Exposure 66 Compensating for Backlight (Backlight Compensation 67 5