Storing A Birth Date In Your Camcorder; Before You Begin; How To Store Birth Date - Sony Handycam CCD-FX310 Operation Manual

When you preset your child's birth date in your camcorder, you can put your child's age in
years and months on your tape. You can also preset the date of an event. Once you enter
the birth date of your child, the clock inside your carncorder will automatically update age
of your child. You can superimpose the age anytime on your recording.You can preset up
to three birth dates or events.
Before you begin
Before you store a birth date in your camcorder, make sure that power source is
connected, that the lithium battery is installed and that the date is correctly set.
How to store birth date
To store a birth date in your camcorder, see the following example and procedure.
Example: Store "Aug. 3, 1987" in memory 2.
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Press the small green button on the
POWER switch and slide the POWER
switch to CAMERA. CAM['_p_V_
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Set the STANDBY switch up.
8TART / STOP
3
Press TIME (NEXT) and AGE/EVENT
simultaneously for a few seconds until the
"1_ BIRTHDAY ..... 1900" indicator appears
in the viewfinder.
TIME(NEX'n AGFJEVENT
m_BIRTHDA_
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Press DATE (+) to select I_.
Each time you press DATE (+), the display in the
viewfinder changes as follows:
[] BIRTHDAY --> [] BIRTHDAY
1" [] EVENT_<__.__J
Although "EVENT" is displayed on I31,you can
use it for age as well.
[] and [] can also be used to record event
dates in memory.
Press TIME (NEXT).
The "1900" indicator blinks.
TIME(NEXI_ l I_ B I R T_,D_
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