Sony DCR TRV520 Operating Instructions - Page 19

To record pictures with the viewfinder - adjusting the, viewfinder - playback

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Recording a picture To record pictures with the viewfinder - adjusting the viewfinder If you record pictures with the LCD panel closed, check the picture with the viewfinder. Adjust the viewfinder lens to your eyesight so that the indicators in the viewfinder come into sharp focus. Lift up the viewfinder and move the viewfinder lens adjustment lever. Recording - Basics Indicators displayed in the recording mode The indicators are not recorded on tape. Remaining battery time indicator Format indicator Recording mode indicator STBY/REC indicator 40min SP REC 0:00:01 Time code/Tape counter indicator Remaining tape indicator This appears after you start to record for a while. JUL 4 2000 12:05:56 AM Time indicator This is displayed for five seconds after the POWER switch is set to CAMERA or MEMORY. Date indicator This is displayed for five seconds after the POWER switch is set to CAMERA or MEMORY. Time code (for tapes recorded in the Digital8 system only) The time code indicates the recording or playback time, "0:00:00" (hours:minutes: seconds) in CAMERA mode and "0:00:00:00" (hours:minutes:seconds:frames) in VTR mode. You cannot rewrite only the time code. When you play back tapes recorded in the Hi8/standard 8 system, the tape counter appears. You cannot reset the time code or the tape counter. 19

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Recording – Basics
SP
0:00:01
12:05:56
AM
JUL
4
2000
40
min
REC
To record pictures with the viewfinder – adjusting the
viewfinder
If you record pictures with the LCD panel closed, check the picture with the viewfinder.
Adjust the viewfinder lens to your eyesight so that the indicators in the viewfinder
come into sharp focus.
Lift up the viewfinder and move the viewfinder lens adjustment lever.
Indicators displayed in the recording mode
The indicators are not recorded on tape.
Time code (for tapes recorded in the Digital8
system only)
The time code indicates the recording or playback time, “0:00:00” (hours:minutes:
seconds) in CAMERA mode and “0:00:00:00” (hours:minutes:seconds:frames) in VTR
mode. You cannot rewrite only the time code.
When you play back tapes recorded in the Hi8/standard 8 system, the tape counter
appears.
You cannot reset the time code or the tape counter.
Recording a picture
STBY/REC indicator
Remaining tape indicator
This appears after you start to record for a while.
Remaining battery time indicator
Time code/Tape counter indicator
Format indicator
Recording mode indicator
Time indicator
This is displayed for five seconds after the POWER switch
is set to CAMERA or MEMORY.
Date indicator
This is displayed for five seconds after the POWER switch
is set to CAMERA or MEMORY.