Panasonic 3-MOS P2 Hand-held Camcorder Advanced Operating Instructions - Page 4

Contents (continued) Volume 2 Shooting Viewfinder 6 Using the viewfinder 6 Using the LCD monitor 7 Emphasizing Image Outlines 7 Adjusting the screen display 8 Changing backlight brightness 8 Tally lamp 9 Basic shooting operations 10 Preparing to shoot 10 Shooting in auto mode 10 Checking the shot videos (REC CHECK)........ 12 P2 card access lamps 12 Protecting against a possible erasure 12 Formatting P2 cards 13 P2 card recording times 14 Remove the P2 card 15 Using SD/SDHC memory cards 16 Installing and removing the SD memory card 16 Formatting SD memory card 16 Cautions in using SD memory cards 17 Using the zoom function 18 Digital zoom function 19 Shooting in progressive mode 20 Standard recording (pull-down recording 20 Native recording 20 Recording with Variable Frame Rate (VFR)..... 21 Native VFR recording 21 Standard VFR recording (pulldown recording 22 Using progressive mode and VFR recording function 23 Flow effect shooting 27 Shooting in manual mode 28 Switching to manual mode 28 Manual focusing 28 Using focus assist function 29 Iris adjustments 30 Adjusting the gain 30 Using super gain 31 Light intensity adjustments 31 Adjusting the white balance and black balance 32 Adjusting the white balance 32 Adjusting the black balance 34 Shooting techniques for different targets....... 35 Low-angle shooting 35 Self-portrait shooting 35 Scan reverse shooting 35 Zebra pattern 35 Center marker display 36 Safety zone markers 36 Checking and displaying shooting status......... 36 Changing the image size 37 Optical Image Stabilizer 37 DRS (Dynamic Range Stretcher) function....... 37 FBC (Flash Band Compensation 38 Using the USER buttons 39 Backlight compensation 40 Color bars 40 Waveform monitor function 40 Adjusting the volume while shooting 40 Backup recording 40 2-slot continuous recording 41 Shot mark function 41 Text memo recording 42 Time stamp function 42 LAST CLIP DELETE function 42 Using special recording modes 43 Pre-recording (PRE REC 44 Interval recording (INTERVAL REC 44 One-shot recording (ONE SHOT REC 45 Loop recording (LOOP REC 46 One-clip recording (ONE CLIP REC 47 Adjusting the shutter speed 49 Using SHTR/F.RATE dial 49 Setting SHUTTER mode 49 Setting SYNCHRO SCAN mode 50 Setting FRAME RATE mode 51 Switching audio input 52 Using the built-in microphone 52 Using another microphone and audio equipment 53 Adjusting the audio recording level automatically 53 Adjusting the recording level 54 CH3 and CH4 recording levels 55 Audio level meter magnification 55 Using scene files (Scene File Data 56 Changing scene file settings 56 Saving scene files and other settings on SD memory cards 58 Configuration of setup data files 60 Using time data 61 Counter setting and display 61 Time data overview 61 Setting user bits 62 4