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1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Location and Function of Controls
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[3] VTR START button and lamp
When a portable VTR is connected to the 26-pin
connector of the video camera:
This button starts and stops the VTR's recording.
Pressing this button starts recording, and pressing again
stops recording.
This button's lamp indicates the VTR's operation mode as
follows:
Blinking: The VTR is recording pictures.
Unlit: The VTR is in the recording pause mode.
As the video camera has the same function, you can start
recording with this button and stop recording with the
Camera's button and vice versa.
When a CCU-M7 camera control unit is connected to
the 26-pin connector of the video camera and this unit
is also connected to the video camera:
The return video picture (the picture selected on the
control console) can be monitored on the viewfinder
Screen while the button is kept depressed.
When the button is released, the camera picture can be
monitored.
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[2] PANEL ACTIVE button
When the camera contro! unit is connected, press this
button to make its lamp lit so that you can control a video
camera by using this unit. Various adjustments performed
by using the switches, buttons and controls of this unit
are effective while the lamp is lit.
When the PANEL ACTIVE button of the CCU-M7
connected to the video camera is pressed, the lamp of
this button goes off and you cannot control the video
camera by using this unit.
When only the video camera is connected, this button
does not function even though its lamp lights when the
power is turned on.
[4] MODE selector
This selector is used to select the signal to be output from
the MONITOR connector of this unit.
CAMERA: To output the signal of the pictures shot
by the camera
BARS: To output the color bar signal
TEST: To output the test signal
[5] GAIN selector
Normally set this selector to 0 dB.
This selector is used to select the amplification gain for
video signals according to the brightness of the subiect.
When the brightness of the subject is insufficient, set to 9
dB or 18 cB.
[6] SHUTTER selector
Normally set this selector to OFF.
When this selector is set to a position other than OFF,
shooting will be performed with the following shutter
speeds respectively:
1/100 sec.
1/250 sec.
| 1/500 sec.
1/1000 sec.
1/2000 sec.