Recording and Playing Back MoviesRecording Movies

You can record movies by simply pressing the b(emovie-record) button. Color tones, white balance, and other settings are the same when recording movies as they are when taking still images.

1Turn on the camera and display the shooting screen.

•The movie options icon indicates the type of movie recorded. The default setting is dHD 1080pP

(1920×1080) (A83).

•When recording movies, the angle of view (i.e., the area visible in the frame) is narrower than that of still images. When Photo info (A94) is set to Movie frame+auto info, you can confirm the area visible in the frame before recording movies.

* The maximum movie length shown in the illustration differs from the actual value.

Movie option

29m 0s

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Maximum movie length*

Movies Back Playing and Recording

2Press the b(emovie-record) button

to start movie recording.

• The camera focuses on the subject at the center of the frame. Focus areas are not displayed during recording.

• When recording with the movie options of

the aspect ratio of 16:9 (i.e., Movie options is dHD 1080pP(1920×1080)), monitor display changes to an aspect ratio of 16:9 (the movie is recorded in the range shown in the screen on the right).

• The approximate remaining movie length is displayed

 

 

7m23s

on the monitor. Cis displayed while saving to the

 

 

 

 

 

 

internal memory.

 

 

 

 

•Recording stops automatically when the maximum movie length has been recorded.

3Press the b(emovie-record) button again to end recording.

BNote on Saving Movies

After a movie has been recorded, it is not fully saved to the internal memory or memory card until monitor display returns to the shooting screen. Do not open the battery-chamber/memory card slot cover. Removing the memory card or the battery while a movie is being saved may result in loss of the movie data or damage to the camera or to the memory card.

CAction Control

When Assign action button in the setup menu (A94) is set to Action control (A13), movies can be recorded by using the action control.

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