Hitachi VM-1800A Owner's Manual

PRECAUTIONS 

 

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Any problems that occur as a result of any of the following conditions will not be covered 
by our warranty. 

 Be careful that no water, dust, or sand enters the camcorder. 
 When you are not using the camcorder, switch off the power and attach the lens cap. 
 When you shoot at a scene which contains an extremely bright object such as the the 

sun or a light source, a bright vertical bar may appear in the picture. 
Your camcorder is functioning properly, but the solid-state pickup device (CCD) usually 
causes this as an inherent characteristic. Try to avoid shooting an excessive bright 
object directly. 

 Be sure not to leave the camcorder in a place where the temperature exceeds 140 

deg. F (60 deg. C), or the pickup device may be damaged. 
Dangerous includes: 

 Do not point the electronic viewfinder to direct sunlight; it could damage the 

viewfinder. 

 The liquid crystal display (LCD) panel is made by highly precise technology. More 

than 99.99% of its picture elements (pixels) are effective, but some (less than 0.01%) 
may not appear as coloured bright dots. This does not indicate a fault as the LCD panel 
stretches the limits of current technology. (for VM-2800A/VM-3800A) 

 Digital zoom up to X24 
 Digital zoom up to X100 (only for VM-3800A) 
 Solid-state camera pickup 

 

 High Quality picture technology 

 Auto focus power zoom lens with macro feature 
 Full record and playback capability with standard 

 cassette 

 Program AE (Auto Exposure) 
 Fade in / fade out 
 Color electronic viewfinder (EVF) (for VM-2800A/ VM-3800A) 
 Flying erase head 
 Time and date 
 Titler 
 Index signal 
 Audio / video dub 
 Audio dub 
 Built-in camera light (for VM-2800A/VM-3800A) 

 Differences between Models VM-1800A/2800A/3800A)