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Mastering the Basics

Basic Recording

Have you completed the following steps?

• Attached a power source (p. 8).

• Loaded a cassette (p. 11).

• Fastened the shoulder strap (p. 60).

• Removed the LCD cover (p. 60).

You may also want to charge the backup battery (p. 62) in order to set the date and

time display (p. 32).

OPEN

MOVIE

PHOTO

OFF VCR POWER

4, 5

Before you start recording

To record

1. Press down and slide the POWER switch to [.

• This selects the camera’s Easy Recording program. It allows you to simply

point and shoot without making any manual adjustments (see p. 37).

2. Slide the MOVIE/PHOTO switch to MOVIE.

3. Slide the LENS COVER switch to OPEN.

• The lens cover opens and PAUSE appears in the display — the camera is

now in “record pause mode.”

• The camera will turn itself off if you leave it in record pause mode for more

than about five minutes. To return to record pause mode, slide the LENS

COVER switch to CLOSE and back again, or set the POWER switch to

OFF and then back to [.

4. Press the start/stop button down fully (the red button) to begin

recording.

• REC appears in the display.

Canon ZR User Manual

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