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1. INTRODUCTION
• Use JVC's Videocassette tapes marked with MiniDV for
this unit.
Please use DVM60 or DVM30 type videocassettes.
• Videocassettes cannot be used upside down
• Avoid storing a Videocassette with unevenly wound tape,
as this may damage the tape. Rewind it to the beginning
before placing a cassette into storage.
• Store videocassettes in a place with little humidity and good
ventilation where mould does not form.
• After a Videocassette tape has been used repeatedly, it
becomes unable to maintain full performance due to an
increase in noise caused by dropouts, etc. Do not continue
to use a dirty or damaged tape, as this will reduce the
rotary head life.
• Note that if an ME80 Videocassette is used at low
temperatures, block noise tends to occur due to head
• Videocassette tapes marked MiniDV are provided with
a switch on the back for use in preventing accidental
erasure.
• Slide the switch to SAVE to protect the required recording
in the tape from being overwritten.
• To record on the tape, slide the switch to REC.
Switch
The GY-DV500 can use any of the following battery packs.
• Flat shape type
• Anton-Bauer battery pack: Trimpack 13/14 Series
Magnum 13/14 Series
Compack 13/14 Series
Propack 13/14 Series
* An Anton-Bauer battery pack cannot be connected directly
to the camera. It is necessary to mount the optional battery
holder.
• Battery holder: Anton-Bauer QRQ27
For details on how to mount the battery holder, see page
37.
To display the remaining battery power accurately, set the
VCR Setup Menu item No. 396 BATTERY TYPE according
to the type of the battery pack in use. (See page 69)
• If the unit has been cooled down in a cold place and is then
carried to a warm place, the moisture contained in the warm
air may adhere to the head drum or tape guides and be cooled
into water droplets. This phenomenon is referred to as
condensation (dewing). When this occurs, the head drum and
tape guides are covered with droplets allowing the tape to be
stuck to them, leading to tape damage.
• Condensation occurs in the following cases:
• When the unit is suddenly
moved from a cold place to a
warm place.
Head drum
• When a room heater has just
started or when the unit is
exposed directly to cold air from
an air conditioner.
Video tape
Do not leave the Videocassette inserted when moving the
camera under conditions where the temperature
environment changes.
• When condensation occurs in this unit, the DEW indicator
on the display lights up, and the WARNING LED blinks red.
(See page 86)
To remedy, leave the unit with the power ON and wait until
the WARNING LED stops blinking red and the DEW indicator
disappears from the counter display.
E-8
OPERATE/WARNING
DEW
indicator