OTHER RECORDING FUNCTIONS

Using the Movie Mode

You can record movies with audio. A single movie can be as long as available memory capacity allows.

File Format: AVI

AVI format conforms to the Motion JPEG format promoted by the Open DML Group.

Image Size: 320 x 240 pixels

Movie File Size: Approximately 300KB/second.

Maximum Movie Length

One Movie:

As long as available memory capacity allows

Total Movie Time:

30 seconds with built-in memory; 200 seconds with 64MB SD memory card

1. Align the mode dial

Remaining recording time

with

.

 

Recording time

2. Point the camera at

Movie recording indicator

the subject and then

 

 

press the shutter

 

 

button.

 

 

Movie recording continues as long as remaining memory capacity allows, or until you stop it by pressing the shutter button again.

The remaining recording time and recording time values count down on the monitor screen as you record.

Starting a movie record operation causes optical zoom to be disabled. Only digital zoom is available while a movie record operation is in progress. If you want to use optical zoom to record a movie, perform the zoom operation before starting the record operation.

The focus mode automatically changes to Pan Focus (page 78) when you enter the Movie mode, regardless of the mode memory’s (page 124) Focus setting. You can, however, change to another focus mode before starting a recording.

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