Various Shooting Methods 89

*1 When a super high-speed memory card is used: SDC-512MSH is recommended.

*2 Even if the clip size has not reached 4 GB, recording will stop at the moment the clip length reaches 1 hour. Depending on the volume and data writing speed of the memory card, recording may stop before reaching 1 hour or before the recorded data volume has reached 4 GB.

1 Select a shooting mode.

1. Set the mode dial to .

2.Press the button.

3.Use the or button to select and the or button to change the option.

4.Press the button.

•See Changing Colors (p. 116) for the procedures for using and .

2 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. 65). The memory card supplied with the camera may be used without further formatting.