Recording and Playing Back MoviesRecording Movies

You can record movies by simply pressing the b(emovie-record) button. The settings made for still images, such as hue and white balance, are applied when recording movies.

•The maximum file size for a single movie is 2 GB or the maximum movie length

for a single movie is 29 minutes, even when there is sufficient free space on the memory card for longer recording (A80).

•When no memory card is inserted (when recording in the internal memory), Movie options (E47) is set to mVGA (640×480) by default. nHD 720p (1280×720) cannot be selected.

1Turn on the camera and be sure that it is in shooting mode.

•The icon for the selected movie option is displayed. The default setting is nHD 720p

(1280×720) (A81).

*Maximum movie length shown in the illustrations may differ from the actual display.

Movie options

8 m 0 s

7 6 0

Maximum movie length*

Movies Back Playing and Recording

2 Press the b(emovie-record) button to start movie recording.

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

•When nHD 720p (1280×720) is selected for

Movie options, monitor display changes to an aspect ratio of 16:9 with movie recording (the area indicated on the right is recorded).

• When the Photo info option in Monitor settings

 

(A86) in the setup menu is set to Movie frame+auto

 

info, a frame indicating the area captured in the

15 s

recorded movie can be displayed before recording

 

starts.

 

•The approximate remaining movie recording time is displayed during recording. Cis displayed when saving movies to the camera’s internal memory.

•Recording stops automatically when the maximum movie recording time has elapsed.

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

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