Recording Movies

Movies can be recorded at 24 fps in live view mode.

1 Press the a button.

The mirror is raised and the view through the lens is displayed in the monitor instead of the viewfinder.

D The 0Icon

abutton

A 0icon (0

42) indicates that movies can not be

 

recorded.

 

 

AModes A and M

Set aperture before recording in mode A or M.

y 2 Focus.

Frame the opening shot and press the shutter-release button halfway. Shooting can not begin until the camera has focused. Autofocus is not available after recording begins; use manual focus to focus (0 60) during recording.

3 Start recording.

Recording indicator

Press J to start recording (at default settings,

 

 

both video and sound are recorded; do not cover

 

 

 

 

the microphone on the front of the camera

 

 

during recording). A recording indicator and the

 

 

time available are displayed in the monitor.

 

 

Exposure can be locked by pressing the AE-L/AF-L

 

 

Time remaining

button (0 89) or (in P, S, and A) altered by up to

 

 

±3 EV in steps of 1/3 EV using exposure compensation (0 90).

4End recording.

Press J again to end recording (to end recording and take a still picture in the mode

currently selected with the mode dial, press the

shutter-release button all the way down). Recording will end automatically when the maximum size is reached or the memory card is full.

AMaximum Size

Each movie file can be up to 2 GB in size. The maximum length is 5 min for movies with a frame size of 1280 × 720, 20 min for other movies; note that depending on memory card write speed, shooting may end before this length is reached.

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