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No matter what position the mode dial is in, you can shoot movies .1 with just a push of the Movie button.

You can select the movie recording pixels and frame rate (p. 48) and

shoot with color effects such as Color Accent, Color Swap, and My Colors.

Max. Clip Size: 1 GB .2

1 You can record until the memory card is full (when a super high-speed

memory card is used, such as the recommended SDC-512MSH).

•2 Even if the clip size has not reached 1 GB, recording will stop at the moment the clip length reaches 1 hour.

Depending on the storage capacity of the memory card and the speed at which the data is written, recording will stop before reaching 1 GB or 1 hour.

1Press the Movie button to shoot.

oShooting starts when the Movie button is pressed.

Recording will include sound.

During shooting, the recording time (in seconds) and "o Rec." appear on the LCD monitor (or viewfinder).

OThe tally lamp blinks red during movie recording and turns off when the recording session is over. When [Tally Lamp] is set to [Off] in the Rec. menu, the lamp does not blink (p. 28).

Pressing the Movie button again stops recording.

Recording will stop automatically under the following circumstances.

-When the maximum recording time elapses

-When the intemaI memory and the memory card becomes full OWhen shooting with the Color Accent or the Color Swap, be

sure to specify them in SeN mode beforehand (p. 53).

Even if you shoot movies with the recording pixels for still images set to [_, the aspect ratio of the recorded movie will be the usual 4:3 screen.

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