Recording and Playing Back Movies

Recording Movies

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

1Display the shooting screen.

The icon for the selected movie option is displayed. The default setting is nHD 720p (1280×720) (A85).

*The remaining recording time shown in the illustrations in this manual is for example purposes only.

Movie option

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Maximum Movie Length*

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

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

Recording and Playing

When nHD 720p (1280×720) or piFrame 540 (960×540) 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).

If Photo info in the Monitor settings (A 88) in the setup menu is set to Movie frame+auto info, the area that will be visible in the movie can be confirmed before movie recording starts.

14m30s

Back Movies

The approximate remaining movie length is displayed. 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.

BNotes About 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 display. Do not open the battery-chamber/memory card slot cover before movies have been fully saved. 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

82memory card.

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Nikon COOLPIXS6200BK Recording Movies, Display the shooting screen, Press the bemovie-record button again to end recording