Specifications - Sony Handycam DCR-SR42 Operating Manual

Specifications
About careand storage of the lens
• Wipe tile sur/ace o/the lens clean with a soft cloth
in tile Iollowing instances:
When there are fingerprints on lhe lens surface,
In hot or humM locations
When tile lens is exposed to salty air such as at
the seaside.
• Store ill a well-vemilated location sut_ject to little
dirl or dtlst.
• To prevenl mold, periodically clean the lens as
described above. U is recommended lhal you
operate
yotlr calllcorder _lboul once a//lonth lo
keep il in Ol)limtu/l state tot a long time.
Oncharging t he pre-installed
rechargeable b attery
Your camcorder has a pre-ittstalled
rechargeable battery to retain the date. time.
and uther settings even when the POWER
switch is set to OFF (CHG). The pre-iustalled
rechargeable battery is always charged while
your camcorder is conttected to the wall
outlet via the AC Adaptur ur while the battery
pack is attached. The rechargeable battery
will be fidly discharged inabout 3 months
if you do nut use your camcorder at all. Use
your camcorder afler charging the pre-
ittstalled rechargeable battery.
Huwevel: evett if the pre-ittstalled
rechargeable battery is not charged, the
camcorder uperation will not be affected as
long as you are not
recording
the date.
N Procedures
Cunuec't _Ollr camcorder to a vwtll outlet
using the supplied AC Adaptor, and leaxe it
with the POWER switch set to OFF (CHG/
fur more than 24 hours.
System
Video compression format
MPEG2/JPEG (Still images)
Audio compression format
DCR-SR42/SR62/SR82
Dolby Digital 2ch
Dolby Digital Stereo Crealor
DCR-SR200/SRB00
Dolby Digital 2/5. Ich
Dolby Digital 5.1 Creator
Video signal
NTSC color, EtA standards
Hard Disk
DCR-SR42/SR62
?,0GB
DCR-SR82
60 GB
DCR-SR2OO/SR300
40 GB
When mcw, uring media capacity. I GB equals
1 billion bytes, a portion of which is used for
data managenlent.
Recording format
Movie
MPEG2-PS
Still image
Exi1.1 Vcr.2,2
Recording time
DCR-SR42/SR62
HQ: Approx. 440 rain
SP: Approx. 650 rain
LP: Approx. 1 250 rain
DCR-SR82
HQ: Approx. 880 rain
SP: Approx. 1 300 rain
LP: Approx. 2 510 rain
DCR-SR200/SR300
HQ: Approx. 570 rain
SP: Approx. 870 rain
LP: Approx. 1 680 rain
Recordahle images/cots
Movie: 9 999
Still image: 9 999
Image device
DGR-SR42
?,.0 toni (1/6 type) CCD (Charge Coupled
Device)
Gross:
Approx. 680 000 pixels
Ellcctive (Movie):
Approx. 340 000 pixels
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