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  • Show date and time from a recorded tape

    Posted by Kurt Raihn on January 7, 2006 at 5:15 pm

    Hello everyone,

    My Canon manual is packed away somewhere so I hope that you don’t mind me asking this question.

    Is it possible to see what date and time was recorded on a MiniDV tape? I know the camera had the time and date set correctly. I have some old tapes that I didn’t label well and now I am trying to find out what the dates of recording were.

    Thanks,
    Kurt

    Don Greening replied 20 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Don Greening

    January 7, 2006 at 6:29 pm

    If you go to the Canon web site and do a search for your particular camera model you’ll probably be able to pull up the manual for it. Since you didn’t state which model you have I can only say that virtually all the newer MiniDV cameras will allow you to display the date/time of your tape in the viewfinder as the tape is playing. Just poke around in your menu settings and you’ll find it.

    – Don

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