Changing the Setting of the Tally on a Camcorder

"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."