Canon Optura Optura Instruction Manual - Page 29

Setting the Date and Time

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Setting the Date and Time E MENU Using the Full Range of Features The date and/or time display forms part of the data code. You can choose to display or hide it during playback (see p. 30). Set the date and time display when you first start using your camera. Install the backup battery before you begin (see p. 56). 1. Put the camera in record pause or VCR mode. 2. Open the menu and select D/TIME SET. • The year display starts to flash. 3. Press the controller up and down to change the year. Press sideways to move to another part of the display. • Press once to scan a year at a time. Press and hold to scan quickly. • Once you move from the year, the next part of the display starts flashing. 4. Set the months, days, hours, and minutes in the same way. 5. Press the MENU button when finished, and to start the clock. • The date can be set to any year between 1997 and 2020. • If you press the MENU button in the middle of setting the date and time the seconds are set to zero, you leave the menu, and the clock starts. • If you press the controller to the right after setting the minutes you can set the date and time again from the start. Setting the display style (see p. 25) D/TIME SEL.•DATE & TIME 1. Press down and slide the POWER switch to VCR. 2. Open the VCR menu and select D/TIME SEL. 3. Choose between DATE, TIME and DATE & TIME. 4. Press the MENU button to close the menu. 29

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E
Using the Full
Range of Features
Setting the Date and Time
The date and/or time display forms part of the data code. You can choose to
display or hide it during playback (see p. 30).
Set the date and time display when you first start using your camera. Install the
backup battery before you begin (see p. 56).
1.
Put the camera in record pause or VCR mode.
2.
Open the menu and select D/TIME SET.
The year display starts to flash.
3.
Press the controller up and down to change the year. Press sideways
to move to another part of the display.
Press once to scan a year at a time. Press and hold to scan quickly.
Once you move from the year, the next part of the display starts flashing.
4.
Set the months, days, hours, and minutes in the same way.
5.
Press the MENU button when finished, and to start the clock.
The date can be set to any year between 1997 and 2020.
If you press the MENU button in the middle of setting the date and time the
seconds are set to zero, you leave the menu, and the clock starts.
If you press the controller to the right after setting the minutes you can set the
date and time again from the start.
MENU
1.
Press down and slide the POWER switch to VCR.
2.
Open the VCR menu and select D/TIME SEL.
3.
Choose between DATE, TIME and DATE & TIME.
4.
Press the MENU button to close the menu.
Setting the display style
D/TIME SEL.•DATE & TIME
(see p. 25)