 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosler. I want to make another video on a feature on the Canon XA40 professional camcorder. I believe the same feature is found on the 4550 and 55 also on the Canon XA series because for the most part they are pretty similar and I've discussed. I've done a detailed comparison of their specs in another video and that is the Tallylamp. This is actually an extremely useful feature, a small feature yes, but one that is the first time I've owned a camera with a Tallylamp which are really really ubiquitous in the world of broadcasting. Let me explain what the Tallylamp does although if you're watching this you probably know what it does. It's a little light that illuminates when the camera is recording so the idea is that you let's say you have someone operating the camcorder and you are speaking so rather than having to communicate via hand signals or saying something like camera rolling and then you're going to have to get rid of that in post you can just have a little light. So the Tallylamp on the XA40 is this little small LED. It's located just beneath the Canon logo on the front body of the camcorder. So let me go ahead now and flip the camcorder to on and I'm going to be triggering the recording just using the record button on the top handle here. Camera's rolling so here we go. I'm going to press the button then three, two, one, boom! There goes our Tallylamp. So it's that little red thing there and it's decently visible. You can be a few meters from the camcorder and even in nighttime I guess they chose that red color specifically it just seems to cut well through whatever lighting conditions you're working with. Now I'm going to start recording and you can see that that light's gone off. So that's basically all it is and we just do one more time. Tallylamp on recording. Tallylamp on, I stopped recording. If you want to turn off the Tallylamp just to show you. I can't think of a reason that you would because I think it's a great advantage but there is a setting in the menu which will just show you guys. Go into the far right that's the the wrench menu and it's on the first page. A little bit hard sometimes to actually select. There we go and now I've turned my Tallylamp off so if I just jump back here and start recording now there's no Tallylamp coming on or coming off and then if you want to turn it on just follow the same process go into your menu settings jump over to the settings screen first page go back to Tallylamp and then you want to just turn that back to on. So I personally recommend keeping this guy turned on because I think it's a big big help. That's pretty much all there is to know about it. Just a little lamp on the front of the camera but a really really useful feature for the XA40 and the XA series camcorder from Canon.