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Recording and Playing Back Movies
Recording and Playing Back Movies
Recording Movies
You can record movies by simply pressing the b (e movie-record) button.
Color tones, white balance, and other settings are the same when recording
movies as they are when taking still images.
1 Turn on the camera and display the shooting
screen.
• The movie options icon indicates the type of movie
recorded. The default setting is d HD 1080pP
(1920×1080) (A83).
• When recording movies, the angle of view (i.e., the area
visible in the frame) is narrower than that of still
images. When Photo info (A94) is set to Movie
frame+auto info, you can confirm the area visible in
the frame before recording movies.
* The maximum movie length shown in the
illustration differs from the actual value.
2 Press the b (e movie-record) button
to start movie recording.
• The camera focuses on the subject at the
center of the frame. Focus areas are not
displayed during recording.
• When recording with the movie options of
the aspect ratio of 16:9 (i.e., Movie options is d HD
1080pP (1920×1080)), monitor display changes to
an aspect ratio of 16:9 (the movie is recorded in the
range shown in the screen on the right).
• The approximate remaining movie length is displayed
on the monitor. C is displayed while saving to the
internal memory.
• Recording stops automatically when the maximum movie length has been recorded.
3 Press the b (e movie-record) button again to end recording.
B Note on Saving Movies
After a movie has been recorded, it is not fully saved to the internal memory or memory card until
monitor display returns to the shooting screen. Do not open the battery-chamber/memory card
slot cover. Removing the memory card or the battery while a movie is being saved may result in loss
of the movie data or damage to the camera or to the memory card.
C Action Control
When Assign action button in the setup menu (A94) is set to Action control (A13), movies
can be recorded by using the action control.
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