Hitachi DZ-HS903A Owners Guide - Page 5

Table of Contents Important Information 2 For Your Safety 2 Precautions 2 IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 4 Introduction 8 This camcorder makes all of the following possible 8 Choosing a disc to suit your purpose 9 How to Read this Instruction Manual 9 Before Using the Product - Be sure to read this information 11 Checking Provided Accessories 13 Names of Parts 14 How to Open and Use the LCD Monitor 19 How to Change the LCD Brightness 20 Let's Get Started 21 Preparing 21 Setting up the battery pack 21 Turning on the Power 22 Changing the display language 22 Setting the date and time 23 Recording Movies to the HDD 24 Recording Movies to a DVD 25 Recording Stills to an SD card 27 Playing Recorded Movies/Stills 28 Deleting Recorded Movies/Stills 29 Functions and Characteristics of HDD/DVD/Cards 30 About HDD/DVD 31 About cards 33 Cautions for discs and cards 33 Inserting a DVD 34 When loading a new DVD-RW/+RW .......... 36 Battery Pack 37 CHARGE lamp status and charging time ..... 37 Recording time with a fully charged battery. 37 Connecting the camcorder to a wall outlet.... 38 Detaching the DC power cord/battery pack from the camcorder 38 Efficient Use of the Battery 39 Recording 40 Recording Movies 40 Using the Quick Start function 41 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 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 63 Adjusting the Focus Manually (Manual Focus) . 64 Adjusting the Brightness of the Image (Exposure 66 Compensating for Backlight (Backlight Compensation 67 Selecting a Program AE Mode to Match the Conditions (Program AE 67 Adjusting the Color (White Balance 68 Setting the white balance manually (Set)...... 70 Using the Electronic Image Stabilizer (EIS) ...... 71 Reducing Wind Noise During Recording .......... 71 Restoring all the Recording Settings to Default (Full Auto 72 5