User manual PANASONIC NV-VZ1E

[. . . ] Avoid the following places, as they could shorten the service life of the Battery: Places with extremely high temperature and high relative humidity Recommended temperature: 15xC­25xC Recommended relative humidity: 40%­60% Places with oily smoke and a lot of dust The terminals of the Battery might rust. Before you store the Battery for a long time, perform playback or other operations to completely use up the remaining charge in the Battery. Then remove it from the Movie Camera and store it. We recommend that you reactivate the Battery about once a year by charging it and then completely using up the charge before storing it again. [. . . ] This Movie Camera offers both Auto White Balance Adjustment and Manual White Balance Adjustment. When the Movie Camera is in the Full Auto Mode, the internal system of the Movie Camera automatically determines the temperature of the light and compensates the tint of the subject accordingly. White is the basic colour by which the tint is determined. Because this adjustment is performed based on the white colour, it is called White Balance Adjustment. The optimum settings for several light sources are stored in the memory of the Movie Camera. The internal microcomputer compares the colour temperature of the light received by the White Balance Sensor positioned on the front of the Movie Camera with the colour stored in memory, and selects the setting for the most similar tint. Be careful not to cover the White Balance Sensor (l 12) with your hand, etc. Although this Movie Camera stores the optimum settings for several light sources in memory to correctly judge the white colour, it cannot cope with all light sources. Therefore, to record under those types of lighting (l 104, 108) which cannot be correctly adjusted with Auto White Balance Adjustment, use Manual White Balance Adjustment. If you look at an object through a magnifying glass and move it closer or further away from your eye, you will reach a point where the object becomes clearly visible. Being focused or in focus means that the subject can be seen with optimum clarity and sharpness. The distance between the lens and the point where the rays of light come together is called Focal Distance or Focal Length and depends on the size and shape of the lens. Human eyes have lenses too, and when we look at objects at different distances, the shape of these lenses changes automatically so that we can always see the objects clearly. The image of the subject enters the Movie Camera through the lens and is converted into an electrical signal (video signal) for recording onto tape. Based on this signal, the Auto Focus System automatically adjusts the focal distance by moving the focusing lens forward or backward. 7 Focusing Lens ;Finder Screen < Image area on which the Auto Focus Function adjusts the Focus When you aim the Movie Camera at the subject that you want to record, the microprocessor determines (based on the information about the vertical contours in the picture signal received by the CCD Image Sensor) whether the subject in the middle of the picture is properly focused. If not optimally focused, it quickly moves the focusing lens in tiny steps from the previous focus setting 8 or : until the vertical contours of the subject become sharpest 9. As this Movie Camera automatically adjusts the focus based on the information on the subject's vertical contours, precise focusing is not possible for subjects with weak vertical contours (l 104). Unlike the human eye, the Movie Camera's Auto Focus System cannot change the focus from a distant to a close subject instantaneously. When the remaining battery power is used up, the Movie Camera automatically switches off. When the tape has reached its end, this indication appears. If you record with the LCD Monitor facing forward using the Mirror Mode (m 124), this indication appears instead of the actual Warning/ Alarm Indication. [. . . ] (l 68) P2: The playback picture is distorted or contains noise bars. Clean them with an optional video head cleaning cassette. (l 76) P3: The playback picture is not in colour. Replace them with new "AAA", "UM-4" or "R03" type batteries. [. . . ]