86Chapter4 AdjustmentsandSettingsforRecording• When a cloth is used to wipe dew or dirt off the LCD monitor,discoloration may appear on the screen. This is not amalfunction. The discoloration disappears in a few minutes.• When the camera-recorder is very cold, the video imagein the LCD monitor will appear slightly darker immediatelyafter the power is turned on. Once the interior of the camera-recorder warms up, the LCD monitor delivers normalbrightness.• The image on the LCD monitor may remain if the battery orthe power plug of an external DC power supply is removedwhen the camera is on. This is normal and not a malfunction.This image will disappear if the camera is left idle.• Image lag may increase at low temperatures, but this is not amalfunction.Self-portrait ShootingWhen shooting with the LCD display angled 180 degreestowards the lens, you can set the menu option SELFSHOOT to MIRROR, to horizontally flip the video image onthe LCD display, and allow you to view a mirror image whileshooting.Note that only the video image on the LCD monitor ishorizontally flipped, not the actual video being recorded.This function clears any status display, waveform andvectorscope display on the LCD monitor. Setting menusand thumbnail displays are not flipped horizontally.Waveform monitor functionAssign the WFM function to a user button and press thatuser button to display a waveform for an image in theLCD monitor. Another press of the WFM button closes thewaveform display.• The menu option WFM (page 138) in the SW MODEscreen allows you to switch between the waveform andvectorscope displays.• The waveform display does not appear in the viewfinder.• The waveform display does not appear when the focusassist (EXPANDED) function is used.• The waveform display cannot be recorded.
