Basic Shooting Procedures

Preparations

GY-HM200_BasicREC
Supply battery or AC adapter power to the camera recorder.
Insert an SD card.
Turn on the power of the camera recorder.

Hold down the lock button (blue) at the center of the [POWER ON/OFF] switch to set to “ON”. The camera recorder starts up in Camera mode and is ready for recording.

Adjust the angle of the LCD monitor and viewfinder.

Shooting

The [FULL AUTO] button of this camera recorder is set to “ON” by default, the following video items are automatically adjusted.

Iris

Gain

Shutter

White balance

The audio recording level is also set to Auto, and audio from the built-in microphone is recorded.

When the [FULL AUTO] button is set to “ON”, the FULL_AUTO_ON icon appears at the lower center area of the LCD.

GY-HM200_FullAuto_iconON

Press and hold the [FULL AUTO] button to switch the Full Auto mode ON and OFF.

Memo

To set each individual video setting item automatically or manually, and to carry out the audio input settings and the audio recording level adjustment, refer to the following.

GY-HM200_DualRec
Press the [REC] button to start recording to the SD card.

This camera recorder has two [REC] buttons. Any of the [REC] buttons can be used to start/stop recording by default.

The tally lamp lights up in red during recording.

Zoom Operation

Adjusting the Focus

Memo

If both the slots are loaded with recordable cards in the factory default, pressing the [REC] button starts recording only to the media in the selected slot.
When [Main Menu] arrowR [System] arrowR [Record Set] arrowR [Slot Mode] is set to “Dual”, recording can be performed simultaneously to the cards in both the slots.

The tally lamp can be turned off in [System] arrowR [Tally Lamp].

Check the most recently captured images.

Press the [C.REVIEW/4] button to activate the Clip Review function. The most recently captured images are played back on the LCD monitor and viewfinder screen.

After playback, the camera recorder returns to standby mode (STBY).

Memo

[Clip Review] is assigned to the [C.REVIEW/4] button in factory default.

[Clip Review] can also be assigned to other user buttons.