Preparation19Turn on/off the cameraWhile pressing the lock release, turn the POWERswitch.Turn on the camera:The mode lamp (CAM) lights red (CAM mode) andthe camera is now in the shooting standby mode.Turn off the camera:The mode lamp (CAM) goes out.Power saving modeWhen the camera is left idle in pause modefor about 5 minutes, it will behave as followsdepending on what POWER SAVE settingshave been made in the setting menu OTHERFUNCTIONS screen (Page 112).ON: The camera-recorder turns off automatically.OFF:The camera-recorder does not turn offautomatically.See the setup menus, OTHER FUNCTIONSscreen, POWER SAVE (Page 112) for details.When the operation mode buttons flash insequence starting with the top one and the powerthen goes off, it means that there is no charge leftin the battery. Recharge the battery.••SLOT SELMODECAMMCRPCPOWERONOFFMode buttonMode lampLock releaseTally lampThe tally lamp can be made to light up duringshooting by selecting “ON” as the REC LAMPsetting in the OTHER FUNCTIONS screen.(Page 111)When the camera-recorder is in any of thefollowing states, the tally lamp blinks.When an operation initiated by the remote controlunit has been received (8 blinks/sec.)When the remaining battery capacity runs out (4blinks/sec.)When the available recording space on the P2card or the battery power is low (1 blink/sec.)When removing the P2 card during access (4blinks/sec.)When there is no recording space left on the P2card (4 blinks/sec.)•••••Tally lamp
