How to turn off LCD on camcorder while external microphone is connected? 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.
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 -&gt; Other Settings -&gt; Display Setup.