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Hello! I’m Ross on behalf of expertvillage.com. Let’s talk about consumer camcorders. What
is the record lamp? You can see it, it’s lit up. It’s called the tally light. The
consumer camcorders are calling it record light in a lot of cases. I know it as the
tally light and this light tells you that the camera is recording. Well I learned a
long time ago go to turn it off, especially when I used to have my two piece VHS recorder.
Because as soon as that light came on people acted strange, they didn’t want to be in
the picture. Now may be that’s not as common these days because of the number of camcorders
around but you can go into your menu, go down in this case to record lamp and change the
state of it to off and then change it back to on and so that way you can go ahead and
record without people knowing if you are or are not. Especially since most people do use
the tally light, this one is recording now but no tally light. So most people think you
are not recording, it works to your advantage.