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Recorded Sound

The camera can record sound via a built-in microphone positioned in the camera back. This feature, implemented with a goal of simplicity and ease of use, allows you to record audio information about images or other subjects.

Microphone

Record button

DELETE SCSI ID

MIC

MIC BUTTON

CARD BUSY

The feature is intended as an annotation system that records sound at “telephone quality” — 8-bits, 11 kilohertz, monaural. Recorded sound is saved as a “.WAV” file on the PCMCIA card; WAV files are the Windows standard sound file format. Sound files are time- and date-stamped when written to the PCMCIA card.

As a sound segment is recorded, it is held briefly in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) in the camera back, and is then moved to the

 Reference — Camera G 7-27

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