Canon Optura 100- Manual

Canon Optura 100

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 2 – Introduction; Important Usage Instructions
  • Page 3 – IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
  • Page 5 – Contents
  • Page 6 – For quick reference; Using a Memory Card
  • Page 7 – Thank you for Choosing a Canon; Getting started
  • Page 8 – Introducing the OPTURA100 MC; longer than
  • Page 9 – Finding Your Way Around the OPTURA100 MC
  • Page 12 – Powering Your Camcorder; Provide power from an AC outlet; or; Charge a battery pack; move the adapter away from the TV or the antenna cable.; Connecting the camcorder to an AC outlet; Connect the power adapter to the camcorder’s DC IN terminal.
  • Page 13 – Attaching and charging the battery packs; lightly and slide the battery down until it clicks into place.; Connect the power adapter to the camcorder.
  • Page 14 – • Press the BATT. RELEASE button and remove the battery.; CA-560 Compact Power Adapter
  • Page 15 – Charge the BP-500 Series battery packs with power from your car; car’s cigarette; Time required for full charge
  • Page 16 – Charge the BP-500 Series battery packs from a household AC; Operate the camcorder with power from your car battery.; car’s
  • Page 17 – Loading a Cassette; Make sure that you have attached a power source.; Loading and unloading
  • Page 18 – Protecting tapes from accidental erasure; mark flashes in the display.; Cassette memory; damage the camcorder.; Handling cassettes
  • Page 19 – Basic Recording; Before you start recording
  • Page 20 – Slide the program selector to; simply point and shoot without making any manual adjustments (; Press and release the start/stop button once to begin recording.
  • Page 21 – Changing the recording mode; About all 3 extended recording modes; SP or; In
  • Page 22 – About SP and LP modes
  • Page 23 – Confirmation/Warning beeps; in the; Turning off the tally lamp; You may therefore decide to turn it off.
  • Page 24 – digital zoom; Zooming; optical zoom
  • Page 25 – Using the LCD Screen; Opening and closing the LCD screen; it flat against the side of the camcorder.
  • Page 26 – Adjusting the LCD screen; You can adjust the brightness of the LCD screen.; About the LCD Screen
  • Page 27 – • These and all other indicators appear normally in the viewfinder.; Allowing the subject to monitor recording; • You can choose the display style,
  • Page 28 – Playing Back a Cassette; However, you cannot review the sound track.; Attach a power source and turn the POWER switch to PLAY; • The power indicator lights up green.
  • Page 29 – ae; Special playback; Other playback modes
  • Page 32 – AUDIO terminal; Connections for Playback on a TV Screen; Power off all devices before starting the connections.
  • Page 33 – white plug to the white audio terminal; television to VIDEO.
  • Page 34 – Tips for Making Better Videos; Composition; • Make sure that the fastening screw of the tripod is no; Holding the camcorder
  • Page 35 – Picture angle
  • Page 36 – Searching and Reviewing While Recording; to record pause mode.; Record search; • The + button plays the recording forwards and the – button plays it
  • Page 37 – Using the Menus; Camera menu; VCR MENU
  • Page 38 – Selecting from the Menus
  • Page 39 – Card mix submenu; Camera set up submenu; List of Menus
  • Page 40 – Display set up submenu; VCR set up submenu
  • Page 41 – Card set up submenu; Return; Card operations submenu; Copy from cassette to card .; Return
  • Page 42 – System submenu
  • Page 43 – -1 Card operations submenu (when playing back a single image)
  • Page 44 – To print mark..................
  • Page 45 – Using the Wireless Controller; Inserting batteries
  • Page 46 – When Operating 2 Canon DV Camcorders (Remote Sensor Mode); To turn the remote sensor off:; • The selected mode will appear on the display for 4 seconds.; Press and hold the REMOTE SET button on the wireless controller.; OFF
  • Page 47 – If your wireless controller isn’t working:
  • Page 48 – Setting the Date and Time; Setting the time zone/daylight saving time; • If you are now in daylight saving time, select the time zone with the
  • Page 50 – • The year display starts to flash.; Turn the selector dial up and down to change the year. Press the; and time again from the start.; Setting the clock; Date and time display
  • Page 51 – Taking Still Pictures to a Cassette; Press the PHOTO button halfway down and hold it:
  • Page 52 – Press the PHOTO button fully down to take the still picture.
  • Page 53 – Press the PHOTO button half way down and hold it.; Using the Built-in Flash; Changing the setting of the flash
  • Page 54 – Returning the flash to the body
  • Page 55 – Turning the Image Stabilizer Off; • The
  • Page 56 – Using the Various Recording Programs; the program selector to the; Availability of functions in each recording program
  • Page 57 – Setting the program AE mode; • The program will appear in the display.
  • Page 58 – Portrait; Easy Recording; Auto
  • Page 59 – Spotlight; Low Light
  • Page 60 – Using Digital Effects; Availability of digital effects in TAPE CAMERA mode only
  • Page 61 – Vertical; Faders; When you; Horizontal
  • Page 62 – Effects; Black and White; Makes the image; Mosaic; Blurs the image by
  • Page 63 – buttons on the wireless controller; Operating faders; • You return to the digital effects menu.; Press the DIGITAL EFFECTS button to close the menu.; • The name of your selected fader flashes in the display.
  • Page 64 – Press the DIGITAL EFFECTS button to open the digital effects; • When MOSAIC is selected, you cannot use the digital zoom.; Operating effects
  • Page 65 – Operating the multi-image screen; Using the Multi-Image Screen
  • Page 66 – • The multi-image screen is recorded to the tape.
  • Page 67 – Audio Recording; To switch to the 16; External microphone
  • Page 68 – • WS; Wind screen
  • Page 69 – self-timer button on the body of the camcorder; seconds in; Setting the Self-Timer
  • Page 70 – • To cancel the self-timer before the countdown has begun, press the
  • Page 71 – clicks securely into place.; Set the camcorder to TAPE CAMERA mode or CARD CAMERA
  • Page 72 – Refer to the DM-50’s instructions for further details.; Set the camcorder to TAPE CAMERA mode.; camcorder’s microphone terminal.
  • Page 73 – Adjusting Exposure Manually; Exposure lock
  • Page 74 – • You cannot adjust the exposure without the
  • Page 75 – Make sure the camcorder is set to the; Concerning shooting in fluorescent lighting; When the camcorder is set to; TAPE; slower; Setting the Shutter Speed
  • Page 76 – Guidelines for shooting using high shutter speeds
  • Page 77 – Adjusting Focus Manually; Manual focus; Focus lock
  • Page 78 – Setting the White Balance; appears in the display when you set the white balance to; b) To set the white balance yourself, point the camcorder at a white; you have finished setting the white balance.
  • Page 79 – Subjects with one dominant color, such as sky, sea or forest
  • Page 80 – • Press it once to display, once more to hide it.
  • Page 81 – Setting the data code; Camera data; • The data code will read “– – –” in the following situations:; Possible data code combinations for cassettes:
  • Page 82 – • When 6SEC.DATE is turned on but DISPLAYS (
  • Page 83 – Press the SEARCH SELECT button to choose between photo/date
  • Page 84 – Returning to a Pre-Marked Position; Press the ZERO SET MEMORY button on the wireless controller; RTN
  • Page 85 – Editing; Editing to a VCR; Preparations
  • Page 86 – Dubbing to/from a Cassette with Digital Video Equipment; Connect the camcorder and the other digital device.; marked with the arrows facing as shown above.; the camcorder’s TAPE/CARD switch to TAPE.; • DV IN appears in the display.
  • Page 87 – Copyright signal; • The camcorder enters record pause mode.; Start playback on the other digital device while you monitor the; images on the tape that is being recorded to.; Dubbing
  • Page 88 – “Connections for Playback on a TV Screen” on p. 32.; Example recording from a VCR
  • Page 89 – you want to copy and set it to playback pause mode.; • You can monitor the picture in the viewfinder or LCD.
  • Page 90 – Recording Over Existing Scenes (AV Insert Editing)
  • Page 91 – The tape in the camcorder:; Turn the camcorder’s POWER switch to PLAY (VCR) and load a
  • Page 93 – Audio Dubbing; To connect other audio equipment:
  • Page 94 – When using an external microphone; • To use your TV to monitor video, connect the S-video terminal (
  • Page 95 – Locate the point where you want to start audio dubbing, then press
  • Page 96 – Setting the Audio Mix; • To simply choose STEREO1, STEREO2 or MIX/FIXED, make sure your
  • Page 97 – Open the menu and select VCR SET UP. Then select OUTPUT CH,; Selecting audio output channels
  • Page 98 – household power socket using the power adapter.; Connecting to a PC
  • Page 99 – Memory Card Introduction; Front; MultiMediaCard MMC-8M; Back; Important
  • Page 100 – Selecting the recording image quality; Select the quality of a still image to be recorded.; Inserting and removing the memory card; Open the memory card compartment cover in the direction of the; • When you set the camcorder to CARD PLAY (VCR) mode, the last image
  • Page 101 – Selecting the recording image resolution; To change the image resolution to 640; Image resolution
  • Page 102 – File numbers; CONTINUOUS; Turn off the shutter sound
  • Page 103 – Recording Still Images to a Memory Card; sure the protect switch is set to allow recording.; Press the small green button on the POWER switch and hold, turn; other information appear in the display.; Press the PHOTO button halfway and hold it.; flashes white in the display as the camcorder adjust the
  • Page 104 – Press the PHOTO button fully down to record the still picture.
  • Page 105 – Recording an Image from a Cassette as a Still Image; When the image you want to record appears in the display, press; still be recorded on the memory card appears in the display.; Press the PHOTO button fully down to record the image to the; • The card access indicator flashes.
  • Page 106 – Recording from Another DV Device as a Still Image; Connect the camcorder to the other digital device.; Load a memory card. Turn the camcorder’s POWER switch to; 80 onto a memory card.; appears in the display.; Recording
  • Page 107 – Viewing Still Images; Do not change the data recorded on a memory card.; Still images whose image file names have been changed on a PC; There are 3 ways to view still images:; One after the other automatically in order of recording; Single Image; • The last image recorded appears in the display.
  • Page 108 – Card Jump Function; number is assigned, appears in the display.; Slide Show; With an image in the display, press the SLIDE SHOW button.; • The images are played back one after another.; To stop the slide show, press the SLIDE SHOW button.; Index Screen; With an image in the display, press the; • Up to 6 images appear in the display.; mark to the image you want to view.; to go to the next image.
  • Page 109 – Settings of the Still Image Recorded to a Memory Card; Preventing Accidental Erasure (Protect; To mark an image for printing or erase print marks one at a time
  • Page 110 – CARD PHOTO REVIEW; open the CARD PHOTO REVIEW menu.; To erase images one at a time
  • Page 112 – With an image in the display, press the INDEX SCREEN button.
  • Page 113 – Marking a Still Image for Printing (Print Mark); Marking an image for printing while viewing an index screen
  • Page 114 – With an image in the display, open the menu and select CARD; • ERASE ALL PRINT MARKS; Erasing all print marks
  • Page 115 – Erasing Still Images
  • Page 116 – IMAGES] NO YES appears in
  • Page 117 – Combining Images and Recording Them to a Cassette (Card Mix); Select from 3 types of Card Mix effects:
  • Page 118 – Make sure the program selector is set to; Open the menu and select; Select; Mix level
  • Page 119 – Press the PHOTO button halfway down and hold it.
  • Page 120 – Copying Still Images from a Cassette; Locate the first still image on the cassette that you want to copy; • CANCEL and EXECUTE settings appear.; Press the stop button when your desired images have finished
  • Page 121 – Copying Memory Card Still Images to a Cassette; Locate the point on the cassette where you want to start copying; copied onto the cassette.; button when your desired images have finished; The; SP; and; LP; recording modes are not available when copying
  • Page 122 – Formatting a Memory Card; with the camcorder, not a PC or other device.
  • Page 123 – Other Information and Precautions; on most types of laptop PCs.; Memory card operating precautions
  • Page 124 – Sample images; Card chroma key
  • Page 125 – MultiMediaCard standard
  • Page 126 – Preparing the Camcorder; • Set the camcorder to TAPE CAMERA; Adjust the viewfinder; • Make sure attach the hood to the
  • Page 127 – Prepare the lens cap; • Attach the cord to the grip belt, and; Fasten the grip belt
  • Page 128 – Notes on Using the Batteries; Charging and recording times
  • Page 129 – Taking care of the battery pack; Always attach the terminal cover.; • Do not allow any metal objects to; Keep the terminals clean.; When to recharge; • When the power is completely; How much power is left?
  • Page 130 – Treat the battery pack with care.; Installing the backup battery
  • Page 131 – Maintenance; form on the lens and internal parts (; Cautions
  • Page 132 – Viewfinder; • Clean the viewfinder screen using a cotton; LCD; treated cloth or volatile solvents such as paint thinner.
  • Page 133 – Power sources; Using the camcorder abroad; Video heads; • When mosaic-like noise appears on the playback picture,
  • Page 134 – Condensation; Protecting the camcorder from condensation; When a cold room is heated rapidly
  • Page 135 – Troubleshooting; Cause and/or what to do about it; There’s no picture in the display.
  • Page 136 – • The camcorder is on manual focus; The camcorder won’t focus.
  • Page 137 – Memory card operations
  • Page 138 – Miscellaneous; Problem
  • Page 139 – The OPTURA100 MC System Diagram
  • Page 140 – Optional Accessories; BP-500 Series Battery Packs; usual when the tele-converter is attached.
  • Page 141 – DM-50 Directional Stereo Microphone; terminal of a Canon camcorder, it
  • Page 142 – SC-A50 Soft Carrying Case
  • Page 143 – Screen Displays; For instructions on how to hook the camcorder up to your TV, see p. 32.; Turning off the LCD screen displays; the displays do not disappear when displaying an index screen.; indicates a flashing display.
  • Page 146 – Memory Card Displays
  • Page 147 – Recording reminder; and 5 images
  • Page 148 – Caution phrases
  • Page 149 – Additional; Memory card caution phrases
  • Page 150 – Specifications
  • Page 151 – minijack; Operating temperature range:; Operating temperature:; in
  • Page 152 – Index; Audio Recording and Playback,
  • Page 153 – Optional Accessories, 140
  • Page 155 – Menu at a Glance; Function
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