104Shooting 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 [z Rec] appear on the LCD monitor. The indicator will blink green in mode.

•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

•The elapsed time from the start of recording to the finish will

display on the LCD monitor when playing back a recording, but the actual playback time will be shorter than the displayed time.

zYou are recommended to use a memory card that has been formatted in your camera to shoot movies (p. 69). The card supplied with the camera may be used without further formatting.

zBe careful of the following while recording.

-Try not to touch the microphone (p. 42).

-If you press a button, the sound of the button being pressed will also be recorded.

-The camera will automatically adjust the exposure and white balance to suit the shooting conditions during a recording. Please note, however, that the sounds made by the camera while 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.