How to Use LCD Screen With Digital Video Camera

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After the aperture viewing, the next thing that you see is that you see is an LCD screen. To open the LCD screen, you'll find the switch here. Just pull it open. It comes out and you can set the LCD as per as your needs. You can also take the LCD while shooting to make it more convenient to your eyes. Now in an LCD screen, you'll find it four switches. First switch is for the volume. You can increase your volume or decrease the volume of the audio, which is getting recorded. Secondly, there's the LCD brightness switches. You can increase the LCD brightness or decrease the LCD brightness according to your needs. Now I'll talk about the different symbols that you see on the LCD screen. On the top left-hand corner of the LCD screen, you see the battery remaining marker. This shows how much charge is left in your battery. On the top right-hand corner of your screen is the time code. On the middle top, you'll find the standby button. And when you're record it, it'll obviously go into the recording mode. Once you stop recording, it again come back to the standby mode. Just below the time code, you'll find another marker which is called the tape remain marker. This shows how much tape is remaining to be recorded. Now, if you see the bottom right-hand corner of your LCD, you'll find a marker called DVCAM. DVCAM is a recording mode of the digital camera. This can be also shifted to DVSB through your menu. Below the DVCAM marker, there is a marker which is saying 48K. 48K is called the bit rate of the audio. You can also shift it to 32K. But 48K will always give you a better quality of audio. After the bit rate of the audio, you can see that there are two channels -horizontal channels - which is going up and down according to the audio. This is very important function of the camera. This is a leveler, which levels the audio so that it doesn't peak or get distorted. According the bottom left-hand corner, you'll see the aperture marker. Because you know that by the F-stop number, which is called the F4 or F5.6. Now, as per I've told you, if you toggle it back, it'll go to the manual iris. Then you won't see that aperture number. And if you toggle it back to the manual mode, you can see the aperture number. Now to adjust aperture, you can make it go up or go down according to your need. After the shutter speed marker, you'll find another marker just beside it which is called the white balance. In the white balance marker, you'll find two company presets. One with the symbol of sun, which denotes that you can shoot it outside in the outdoor locations or outdoor conditions or outdoor lighting conditions. Second is a ball symbol, which denotes that you can shoot it in indoor conditions with artificial light. And third marker is for manually adjusting your white balance according to the lighting conditions, whether indoor or outdoor. Just below the white balance marker, you'll find another marker on your LCD screen. That is called the gain marker. Now it is always advisable to keep the gain at zero degree. But according to the lighting condition, you can always increase your gain up to required amount, that is 3DB, 6DB, 9DB, 12DB, 15DB, and at the most, 18DB. But you see, the moment I am increasing the gain, the picture quality is getting deteriorated. So it is always advisable to keep your gain at zero degree. Just below the gain marker, there is the focus marker. You see a hand and an alphabet called F. Now the focus- this shows that the focus is in manual. Now if you toggle the focus switch, it'll go off the LCD screen. That means the camera is now operating on manual focus. Then again, you toggle it back to the manual position, it comes back again on your LCD screen. That means the focus is again in a manual function.

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