Movies

Recording Movies

To shoot movies with sound recorded via the built-in microphone, select shooting mode and follow the steps below (no sound is recorded for time-lapse movies). Movies recorded to internal memory at the default setting of Small Size 320 can be up to 1 minute 14 seconds long; a 256 MB memory card can hold up to 14 minutes 30 seconds.

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Display shooting mode menu.

Highlight .

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Select and exit to movie mode. Exposure

count display shows maximum total length

 

of movie that can be recorded.

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Press shutter-release button all the way

down to start recording. Progress bar shows

amount of memory remaining. Press shutter -release button all the way down a sec- ond time to end recording.

Recording Movies

The fl ash ( 20) turns off in all modes except Time-lapse movie. The self-timer ( 22) can not be used. Optical zoom can not be adjusted during recording; digital zoom is available to a maximum of 2× ( 15).

If the camera is pointed at the sun or other bright light source during recording, vertical comet -like streaks (“smear”) may appear in the movie. Avoid pointing the camera at bright light sources when fi lming movies.

More on Movies

See the Appendix for information on how movie fi les are stored ( 89), the maximum total length of movie that can be recorded at different settings ( 88), and movie menu defaults ( 87).

Movies

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