PRE-REC function

Recording 7 Other(cont.) recording options

To ensure that you won’t pass up any recording opportunities, the picture and sound are recorded starting about 3 seconds before the record button is pressed.

Display operation icons.

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●“PRE-REC” is displayed on the LCD monitor screen.

●The picture and sound are recorded starting about 3 seconds before the record button is pressed.

●Aim this unit at the subject and position it securely.

●Economy mode is not available.

●Select the icon again to cancel the function.

●The function is released if recording is not started within 3 hours after the function was set.

Start recording.

●The beep sound does not sound.

●The PRE-REC function setting is released when recording is started. To use the function again, set it again.

●Cannot be used during still picture recording.

●The PRE-REC function setting is released in the following situations.

•When the mode dial is rotated

•When the unit is turned off

•When the card/battery door is opened

•When the MENU button is pressed

•When the unit has been connected to another device using the USB connecting cable

Operation icons can be used to set effects, compensate brightness or perform other operations in one easy step.

indicates functions used with motion pictures and functions used with still pictures.

●It is not possible to set the PRE-REC function when less than one minute is left for recording pictures.

●When recording has been started within 3 seconds after the PRE-REC function is set, the scenes starting from the moment when the function was first set will be recorded.

●The camera shake which occurs when the record button is pressed or the sound of the button being operated may be recorded.

●It is not possible to add any fade effects (P.37).

Self-portrait recording function

If you turn the LCD monitor toward the lens side, you can record pictures of yourself as you look at the LCD monitor.

Set the mode dial to [] or [].

Turn the LCD monitor toward you (toward the lens side).

●The picture you will see displayed on the LCD monitor is an image of yourself with the left and right sides reversed just like when you look at your reflection in a mirror. (The image which is recorded is the normal image of yourself.)

●Only part of the screen display appears.

When [ ] is displayed, turn the LCD monitor back in the direction of normal recording, and check what the message says.

Start recording.

●No operation icons are displayed during self-portrait recording even when the cursor buttons are pressed.

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SDR-S15 specifications

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