Movie Shooting Cautions

Recording and Image Quality

When you shoot movies at high ISO speeds, noise (horizontal banding, dots of light, etc.) or irregular colors may appear.

If the attached lens has an Image Stabilizer, the Image Stabilizer will operate at all times even if you do not press the shutter button halfway. The Image Stabilizer may cause the total movie shooting time or the number of possible shots to decrease. If you use a tripod or if the Image Stabilizer is not necessary, you should set the IS switch to <2>. The camera’s built-in microphone will also pick up camera operation noise. If you use a commercially-available external microphone, you can prevent (or reduce) these noises from being recorded.

Autofocusing during movie shooting is not recommended since it might momentarily throw the focus way off or change the exposure. If the AF mode has been set to [Quick mode], AF is not possible even if you press the <p> button during movie shooting.

If [Screen settings] has been set to [Stills display] or [Exposure simulation], the start of the movie shooting might momentarily record a substantial exposure change.

If the card’s remaining capacity is not sufficient for movie shooting, the movie shooting remaining time (p.135) will be displayed in red.

If you use a card having a slow writing speed, a five-level indicator might appear on the right of the screen during movie shooting. It indicates how much data has not yet been written to the card (remaining capacity of the internal buffer memory). The slower the card, the faster the indicator will climb upward. If the indicator becomes full, movie shooting will stop

automatically.Indicator If the card has a fast writing speed, the indicator will either not

appear or the level (if displayed) will hardly go upward. First, shoot a few test movies to see if the card can write fast enough.

During movie shooting, certain Custom Function settings will be disabled (p.191-192).

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