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Reference — Camera 7-27
Recorded Sound
The camera can record sound via a built-in microphone positioned in the
camera back. This feature, implemented with a goal of simplicity and ease
of use, allows you to record audio information about images or other
subjects.
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The feature is intended as an annotation system that records sound at
“telephone quality” — 8-bits, 11 kilohertz, monaural. Recorded sound is
saved as a “.WAV” file on the PCMCIA card; WAV files are the Windows
standard sound file format. Sound files are time- and date-stamped when
written to the PCMCIA card.
As a sound segment is recorded, it is held briefly in dynamic random
access memory (DRAM) in the camera back, and is then moved to the