Panasonic NV-VX55A - Using the Anti-Ground Recording Function

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Using the Anti-Ground Recording
Function
This function prevents unintentional recording of the
ground, your feet, etc. It becomes activated only when
the Movie Camera is in the Recording Mode and you do
one of the foliowing:
You tilt the Movie Camera quickly downward. (When
you tilt the Movie Camera slowly downward for vertical
panning during recording 0. it does not become
activated.)
You tilt the Movie Camera slowly downward (by more
than 70° @ from the normal horizontal recording
position for more than a few seconds) and walk
swinging the Movie Camera back and forth.
When this function becomes activated, the Movie
Camera automatically switches over to the Recording
Pause Mode, the Finder turns off and the [VCR] Lamp
flashes.
@ Resuming Recording
When you return the Movie Camera to a roughly
horizontal position @, the Movie Camera is again in
the Recording Pause Mode. Press the Recording
Start/Stop Button to restart recording.
As recording may have continued for a few seconds,
the [CHK] Indication flashes in the Finder. To erase this
short unwanted part of the recording and smoothly join
the next scene to the end of the last intentionally
recorded scene, rewind the tape a littie using the
Camera Search Function (= 31) to locate the end of
the last intentionally recorded scene. Then start
recording the next scene.
@ Cancelling the Anti-Ground Recording
Function
Set [APS] on the Main Menu [MAIN MENU] to [OFF] so
that the [APS] Indication disappears.
This also cancels the Auto Power Save Function.
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