80Shooting Using the Mode Dial

3 Shoot.

•Pressing the shutter button halfway automatically sets the exposure, focus and white balance settings.

•Pressing the shutter button fully starts recording video and sound simultaneously.

•During shooting, the recording time and [zRec] appear on the LCD monitor.

•Pressing the shutter button fully again stops recording. Recording will stop automatically under the following circumstances.

-When the maximum recording time elapses

-When the built-in memory or memory card becomes full

zYou are recommended to use a memory card that has been formatted in your camera to shoot movies (p. 56). The memory card supplied with the camera may be used without further formatting.

zBe careful of the following while recording.

-Do not touch the microphone (p. 38).

-Do not press any buttons other than the shutter button. The sound that buttons make will be recorded in the movie.

-The camera will automatically adjust the exposure and white balance to suit the shooting conditions during recording. Please note, however, that the sounds made by the camera automatically adjusting the exposure may also be recorded.

zThe focus and optical zoom settings remain fixed for subsequent frames at the values selected for the first frame.

QuickTime is required to play back movies (Data type: AVI/

Compression method: Motion JPEG) on a computer (Only Windows 2000).