Sony HANDYCAM DCR-TRV330 Operating Instructions Manual page 22

Recording a picture
If you record pictures with the LCD panel closed, check the picture with the viewfinder.
Adjust the viewfinder lens to your eyesight so that the indicators in the viewfinder
come into sharp focus.
Lift up the viewfinder and move the viewfinder lens adjustment lever.
Viewfinder backlight
You can change the brightness of the backlight. Select VF B.L. in the nrenu settings. (p. 79)
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The indicators are not recorded on tape.
Remaining battery time indicator
Format indicator
Recording mode indicator
STBY/REC indicator
Time code/Tape counter indicator
Remaining tape indicator
This appears aftc, r the POWER switch is set to CAMERA
for a while.
Time indicator
This is displayed for five seconds after the POWER switch is
set to CAMERA or MEMORY (DCR-TRV330/TRV530 only).
Date indicator
This is displayed for five seconds after the POWER switch is
set to CAMERA or MEMORY (DCR-TRV330/TRV530 only).
Remaining battery time indicator
The remaining battery time indicator roughly indicates the recording time. The
indicator may not be correct, depending on (he conditions in which you are recording.
When you close the LCD panel and open it again, it takes about one minute for the
correct _remaining battery time in minutes to be displayed.
Time code (for tapes recorded in the Digital8 [_ system only)
The time code indicates the recordin_ or playback time, "0:00:00" (hours:minutes:
seconds) in CAMERA mode and "0:0_):00:00 _' (hours:minutes:seconds:frames) in VCR
mode. You cannot rewrite only the time code.
When you play back tapes rec_rded in the HiS/standard 8 system, the tape counter
_?Dopearson the screen.
u cannot reset the time code or the tape counter.