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 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.

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

Autofocusing during movie shooting is not recommended since it might momentarily throw the focus way off or change the exposure. Even if the AF mode has been set to [Quick mode], it will switch to the Live mode during movie shooting.

If movie shooting is not possible due to the insufficient remaining capacity of the card, the movie shooting remaining time (p.156) 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.

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

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

If you take still photos during the movie shooting, the movie shooting might stop. If the still image recording quality has been set low, the movie shooting might continue instead.

When movie shooting is set, certain Custom Function settings will be disabled (p.221).

If there is a very bright light source in the picture, the bright area may appear black on the LCD monitor. In movies, the bright areas will be recorded in almost the same way you see it on the LCD monitor.

In low light, noise or irregular colors may appear in the image. In movies, the bright areas will be recorded in almost the same way you see it on the LCD monitor.

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