Answers.Body: <p>It's not possible to turn off the LCD panel when it is open, but you may do two things with it to save your battery:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><em>reduce the LCD brightness to the its lowest limit,</em> and</li>
  <li><em>set the LCD Backlight to [L Dim]</em></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Both commands are available from the <code>Home Menu -&gt; Other Settings -&gt; Display Setup</code>.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I'd like to turn off the LCD on my camcorder during recording, to save battery. </p>
  
  <p>However, I cannot close the LCD screen because I have plugged in an external microphone and the external microphone plug is under the LCD (see picture).</p>
  
  <p>I'm using a Canon Vixia HF R42.</p>
  
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Title: How to turn off LCD on camcorder while external microphone is connected?
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ThreadText: # How to turn off LCD on camcorder while external microphone is connected?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-06-14)
  
  I'd like to turn off the LCD on my camcorder during recording, to save battery.
  
  However, I cannot close the LCD screen because I have plugged in an external microphone and the external microphone plug is under the LCD (see picture).
  
  I'm using a Canon Vixia HF R42.
  
  [![Photo from Canon USA](https://i.sstatic.net/1nytn.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/1nytn.jpg)
  
  **Tags:** canon, camcorder
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-06-15. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  It's not possible to turn off the LCD panel when it is open, but you may do two things with it to save your battery:
  
  * *reduce the LCD brightness to the its lowest limit,* and
  * *set the LCD Backlight to [L Dim]*
  
  Both commands are available from the `Home Menu -> Other Settings -> Display Setup`.
  
  
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