OTHER RECORDING FUNCTIONS

■Movie Recording Precautions

•The flash does not fire during movie recording

•This camera also records audio. Note the following points when recording a movie.

— Take care that you do not

Microphone

block the microphone

 

with your fingers.

 

—Good recording results are not possible when the camera is too far from the subject.

—Operating camera buttons during recording can cause button noise to be included in the audio.

—Movie audio is recorded in monaural.

—The camera focuses automatically whenever you have

Auto Focus () (page 80) or Macro () (page 83) selected as the focus mode. Note that the confirmation tone that sounds during the Auto Focus operation will be recorded in the audio. If you do not want confirmation tones in your audio, keep Pan Focus

() as the focus mode, or select Manual Focus () and manually focus the image before starting your recording.

•Very bright light inside of an image can cause a vertical band to appear in the monitor screen image. This is a CCD phenomenon known as “vertical smear”, and does not indicate malfunction of the camera. Note that vertical smear is not recorded with the image in the case of a snapshot, but it is recorded in the case of a movie.

•The movie recording capacity of built-in memory is very small. Use of a memory card (page 175) is recommended when recording movies.

•Certain types of memory cards take longer to record data,

which can cause movie frames to be dropped. and flash on the monitor screen during recording to let you know when a frame has been dropped. Use of an SD memory card with a maximum transfer speed of at least 10MB per second is recommended.

•Optical zoom is disabled during movie recording. Digital zoom only is available. Make sure you select the optical zoom setting you want to use before you press the shutter button to start movie recording (page 65).

•The effects of camera movement in an image become more pronounced when you record close ups or recording with a large zoom factor. Because of this, use of a tripod is recommended when recording close ups or recording with a large zoom factor.

 

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