Canon 550D instruction manual 135, 2Shooting 2 Menu, Recording and Image Quality

[2Shooting 2] Menu

The functions settable in this menu screen only apply when the Mode Dial is set to <k>. These functions do not take effect in other shooting modes.

Notes on Movie Shooting

Recording and Image Quality

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 will thereby consume battery power and may shorten the total movie shooting time or decrease the number of possible shots. 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.

Do not connect anything other than an external microphone to the camera’s external microphone IN terminal.

If movie shooting is not possible due to insufficient remaining capacity of the card, the movie recording size and movie shooting remaining time (p.126) 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.

If you take still photos during movie shooting, the movie shooting might stop. Setting the still images’ recording quality low might improve this problem.

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