Nikon COOLPIXP100, Nikon COOLPIX user manual 128, Recording Movies

Movie Recording and Playback

Recording Movies

BNotes on Movie Recording

•When recording a movie onto a memory card, a memory card with an SD speed class of Class 6 or higher is recommended (A180). If the transfer speed of the card is slow, the movie recording may end unexpectedly.

•When recording movies, the angle of view (recorded range) is smaller than that of still pictures.

•Using a digital zoom causes image quality to deteriorate. If you start recording the movie without using digital zoom, and you rotate the zoom control in the gdirection, the zoom stops at the maximum optical zoom ratio. Release the zoom control and rotate it again in the gdirection to trigger digital zoom. The digital zoom is cancelled when movie recording is finished.

•The sound of the zoom control operation, camera zooming or auto focusing may be recorded.

•The following phenomena may occur on a monitor display during movie shooting. These phenomena will be recorded on the shot movie.

-Banding on the picture under lights such as fluorescent, mercury vapor or sodium lamps

-Distortion of subjects that move at high speed through the frame, such as trains or cars

-Distortion of the entire frame when the camera is panned horizontally

-After-images left by bright areas such as light sources when the camera is panned

BNotes on Autofocus

•If Autofocus mode in the movie menu is set to ASingle AF (default setting), the focus is locked when the b(movie-record) button is pressed to start movie recording (A135).

•Autofocus may not perform as expected (A31). Should this occur, try the following:

1.Before recording, set Autofocus mode in the movie menu to A Single AF (default setting).

2.Position a different subject at the same distance in the middle of the screen. Press the b(movie- record) button to start the movie recording, and change the composition.

BNote on Recording Movies

When the movie has been fully recorded to the internal memory or memory card, the monitor display will revert to the shooting display. Do not open the battery-chamber/memory card slot cover while pictures are being recorded. Turning the camera off or removing the memory card while movies are being recorded could result in loss of data or in damage to the camera or card.

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