Sony Handycam DCR-SR20 Handbook page 22

The icons and indicators on the LCD panel will be displayed for about 3 seconds, then disappear after
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turning on your camcorder or switching the recording (movie/photo)/playback modes. To display the
icons and indicators again, press the multi-selector.
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Notes
If you close the LCD screen while recording movies, the camcorder stops recording.
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The maximum continuous recordable time of movies is about 13 hours.
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When a movie file exceeds 2 GB, the next movie file is created automatically.
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It will take several seconds until you can start recording after you turn on the camcorder. You cannot
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operate your camcorder during this time.
The following states will be indicated if data is still being written onto the recording media after recording
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has finished. During this time, do not apply shock or vibration to the camcorder, or remove the battery or
AC Adaptor.
Access lamp (p. 19) is lit or flashing
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The media icon in the upper right of the LCD screen is flashing
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Tips
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When a face is detected, a white frame appears and the image quality around the face is optimized
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automatically ([FACE DETECTION], p. 61).
You can capture photos from recorded movies (p. 39).
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See page 79 on the recordable time of movies.
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You can check the recordable time, estimated remaining capacity, etc., by selecting
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[Show others]  [MEDIA INFO] (under
The LCD screen of your camcorder can display recording images across the entire screen (full pixel
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display). However, this may cause slight trimming of the top, bottom, right and left edges of images when
played back on a TV which is not compatible with full pixel display. In this case, set [GUIDEFRAME] to
[ON] (p. 61), and record images using the outer frame displayed on the screen as a guide.
[ STEADYSHOT] is set to [ON] in the default setting.
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To adjust the angle of the LCD panel, first open the LCD panel 90 degrees to the camcorder (), and
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then adjust the angle ().
 90 degrees (max.)
 180 degrees (max.)
US
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about 3sec
after
[MANAGE MEDIA] category).
(MENU) 
 90 degrees to
the camcorder