Making Voice Recordings

Operations During Recording

The following operations are available during recording. If the monitor has turned off, press i to reactivate.

To

Press

Description

Pause/resume

d

Press once to pause recording; indicator lamp will

recording

blink.

 

 

During recording, press the rotary multi selector to

 

 

create index. Camera can skip to any index during

Create index

 

playback. Start of recording is index number 01; other

 

 

index numbers that follow are assigned in ascending

 

 

order, up to index number 98.

End recording

 

Press the shutter-release button all the way down a

 

second time to end recording.

 

 

Recordings Voice

Sound Quality

Press m in voice recording mode to display the following sound quality options. Choose the sound quality for the recording.

 

 

Maximum voice recording length*

Option

Description

Internal memory

Memory card

 

 

 

 

(approx. 13 MB)

(256 MB)

e

Suited for longer

26 min. 30 sec.

5 hours

Normal

recordings.

 

 

N

Record with high quality

 

 

High

9 min. 38 sec.

3 hours 4 min.

sound.

(default setting)

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Voice recordings can be as long as free space in the internal memory or on the memory card allows (up to five hours). All figures are approximate. Maximum voice recording length varies with make of memory card.

jVoice Recordings

The files transferred to a computer can be played back using QuickTime or any other WAV- compatible audio player. Note that index points created with the camera cannot be used when voice recordings are played back on computers.

lSound File Names and Folder Names