Basic
Recording mode | Movie |
| Audio |
Image size | 320 X 240 |
| 160 X 120 |
White balance | Auto |
| Daylight |
| Cloudy |
| Tungsten |
| Fluorescent |
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Color mode | Color |
| B&W |
| Sepia |
The recording mode option switches between recording movie clips or audio.
Image size not only affects the resolution of the movie image, but also changes the maximum length of the movie clip. The recording rate for a 320 X 240 size movie is approximately 340 KB/sec, and approximately 85 KB/sec for a 160 X 120 movie. Recording time is only limited by the capacity of the memory card. A 16 MB memory card can contain approximately 41 seconds of digital video recorded at 320 X 240 or 150 seconds at 160 X 120.
For more on white balance, see page 43. See page 49 for more on the color mode. Any changes to these two options will also affect the recording mode.
NOTES ON MOVIE RECORDING
In movie recording, some functions can be used, some are fixed, and some are disabled,. Image size, white balance, and color mode can be selected with the movie menu. Both the wide focus frames and the spot focus area (p. 54) can be selected. Exposure can be adjusted with exposure compensation (p. 36). The optical and digital zoom are active. Quick View can be used. The display button switches between the full display and the live image only. The flash is disabled. Camera sensitivity is set to auto.
The writing speed of the memory card in use may prevent an entire movie clip from being recorded.
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