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Using the Full

Range of Features

Taking Still Pictures to a Cassette

You can record still pictures like a photograph. The camera records the picture and
sound to tape for approximately 6 seconds. The exposure is automatically
adjusted.
Your still photos can be transferred to a PC for image enhancement and printout.
ELURA2: Record still photos onto a floppy disk with the optional Floppy Disk
Still Image Recorder FR-100 (

51) for transfer to a PC. ELURA2 MC only:

Copy still photos automatically to a MultiMediaCard for transfer to a PC (

109).

Also, starting your shooting with a still photo makes it easy to find the beginning
again later with the Photo Search function (

78).

You can take a still picture at any time during regular video recording, or you can
put the camcorder into record pause mode first, then take a still picture.

Press the PHOTO button fully down and the still picture will be taken

immediately.

• The camera takes the image immediately, and then records the “photo” to the

tape for approximately 6 seconds. During this time the camera also records
the sound, and the display shows the still picture.

• A counter display appears, and counts up to 6 seconds as the camcorder

records the picture.

• The camera returns to record pause mode.

1. Press the PHOTO button halfway down and hold it:

• “PHOTO” flashes at the bottom right of display.
• Exposure is locked.
• During autofocus

F flashes white in the display as the camcorder adjusts the

focus and it is displayed continuously as a green mark when the camera is
ready to take the still picture.

During record pause mode

During record mode

PHOTO

PHOTO

ELURA2 MC only: To take still images on a MultiMediaCard, see p. 97.

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