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Useful Shooting Functions
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z Although the recording time may not display properly during
shooting, the movie will be recorded correctly on the memory
card. Recording time will display properly if you format the
memory card in this camera (excluding slow recording memory
cards).
z You are recommended to use a memory card that has been
formatted in your camera to shoot movies (p. 20). The card
supplied with the camera may be used without further formatting.
z Be careful not to touch the microphone while shooting.
z If the indicator blinks after a shot, this indicates that the movie is
being written to the SD card. You cannot shoot again until the
blinking stops.
See page 184 for settings that can be changed in this mode.
Resolution/Frame Rate (p. 38)
The following operations are available during movie recording:
- Zoom, digital zoom
- AF lock: Pressing the MF button activates AF lock with the current
conditions. appears on the LCD monitor (or viewfinder). You can
cancel AF lock by pressing the MF button again. When registered to
the shortcut button, pressing the button executes auto-focus and
locks again ( appears).
- Manual Focus (p. 111)
- AE lock, exposure shift: Press the button to enable AE lock. The
and
exposure shift bar appears on the LCD monitor (or
viewfinder), and exposure can be changed using the W or X button.
You can cancel AE lock by pressing the button again. When
registered to the shortcut button, pressing the button executes
auto exposure and locks again ( appears). However, this is not
operable while the exposure shift bar is displayed.
- Image Stabilizer
*
(p. 35)
- Still Image Shooting (p. 66)
* Operation is available only by registering a short-cut key (p. 82).
Sound is recorded in stereo.
There is no shutter sound in Movie mode.
QuickTime 3.0 or higher is required to play back movie files (AVI/Motion
JPEG) on a computer. (QuickTime for Windows is bundled on the
supplied Digital Camera Solution Disk). On the Macintosh platform, this
program is standard with Mac OS X or later.