Shooting movies

Mode selector:

You can shoot movies (MPEG movies).

Before operation

Set [Moving Image] to [MPEG Movie] in the SET UP settings (pages 45, 106).

Control button

Mode selector

Shutter button

aSet the mode selector to .

bPress (Image Size).

The Image Size setup item appears.

cSelect the desired mode with v/V.

You can choose from 640 (VGA) or 160 (Mail).

See page 101 for the recording time allowed for each image size.

dPress the shutter button fully down.

“REC” appears on the screen and the camera starts recording the image and sound.

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REC 00:00:02[00:10:48]

•When the capacity of the “Memory Stick” is used up, recording stops.

ePress the shutter button fully down again to stop recording.

Enjoying movies

Indicators on the screen while you are shooting movies

These indicators are not recorded.

Each time you press , the status of the LCD screen changes as follows: Indicators off t LCD off t Indicators on. See page 114 for a detailed description of the indicated items.

To shoot close-ups (Macro) (DSC-P72 only)

Set the mode selector to and follow the procedure on page 30.

To shoot with a self-timer

Set the mode selector to and follow the procedure on page 31.

•Be careful not to touch the microphone (pages 10, 12) during shooting.

•The flash cannot be used.

•In MPEG movie, the date and time cannot be inserted.

•You cannot change the zoom scaling while shooting movies.

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