Nikon Digital Camera Recording Movies, Start recording, Movies can be recorded in live view mode

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Recording Movies

Movies can be recorded 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

A 0icon (0 43) indicates that movies can not be recorded.

ABefore Recording

Set aperture before recording in mode A or M.

2 Focus.

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Frame the opening shot and focus as described in Steps 2 and 3 of “Framing Photographs in the Monitor” (0 39; see also “Focusing in Live View” on pages 0 40–42). Note that the number of subjects that can be detected in face- priority AF drops during movie recording.

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3Start recording.

Press the movie-record button to start recording. A recording indicator and the time available are displayed in the monitor. Except in i and j modes, exposure can be locked by pressing the A(L) button or (in modes P, S, and A) altered by up to ±3 EV in steps of 1/3 EV using exposure compensation (note that depending on the brightness of the subject, changes to exposure may have no visible effect).

Movie record button Recording indicator

Time remaining

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