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20 ENGETTING STARTED
Inserting/Removing an SD CardFormatting a Recording Medium
You can use an SD card as a recording medium You can format (initialise) the built-in hard disk
in the SD slot. See page 62 for the guaranteed (HDD) or SD cards. You have to format the
media to work with this camera.newly-purchased SD cards with this camera
Clipped Edgebefore using them. This enables stable speeds
SD Card (optional)and operation when accessing the recording
medium. Be aware that all files and data
Labelincluding protected files will be erased.
( pg. 38)
1Set the power switch to or .
2Press MENU. The menu screen appears.
3Press / to select DIS
Write/Erase
Protection Tab[REC MEDIA SETTING], CAMERA SETTING
BASIC SETTING
then press 49.
REC MEDIA SETTING
DISPLAY
SD Card CoverQUALITY
SD SlotWIDE MODE
4Press / to select
1Make sure the camera?s power is off.VIDEO MODE
[FORMAT], then press
2Open the SD card cover.IMAGE MODE
49.
FORMAT
3To insert an SD card, firmly insert it with its
5Press / to select CLEAN UP
clipped edge first.
[HDD] or [SD], then COPY/MOVE
To remove an SD card, push it once. After the
press 49.
SD card comes out of the camera, pull it out.
I Do not touch the terminal on the reverse side of 6Press / to select [EXECUTE], then
the label.press 49.
I By pressing the 49 button while selecting [HDD]
4Close the SD card cover.
and holding down the button in step 5, you can
To protect valuable fileserase the data on the hard disk in a format that is
Slide the write/erase protection tab on the side difficult to recover. Moreover, by repeating this
of the SD card in the direction of ?LOCK?. This procedure, you can make the data even more
prevents the SD card from being recorded over. difficult to recover. When formatting in this way, a
formatting progress bar is displayed.
To record on this SD card, slide the tab back to
I To cancel the formatting, select [CANCEL], then
the position opposite to ?LOCK? before inserting
press 49.
it.
CAUTION:
NOTE:
Before using a new SD card, it is necessary to Do not remove the SD card or perform any other
operation (such as turning off the power) during
format the card. ( pg. 20)
format. Also, be sure to use the provided AC
ATTENTION:adapter, as the recording medium may be corrupted
Do not insert or remove the SD card while the if the battery becomes exhausted during format. If
camera is turned on, as this may cause the SD card the recording medium becomes corrupted, format it
to be corrupted or cause the camera to become again.
unable to recognise whether or not the SD card is
installed. NOTE:
Do not format the recording medium on the PC.
Make sure to format the recording medium on the
camera. |
ACEC
