User's Manual

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Shoot.
• Pressing the shutter button halfway automatically sets the
exposure, focus and white balance settings.
• Pressing the shutter button fully starts recording video and
sound simultaneously.
• During shooting, the recording time and [zRec] appear on the
LCD monitor.
• Pressing the shutter button fully again stops recording.
Recording will stop automatically under the following
circumstances.
- When the maximum recording time or maximum recording
capacity is reached.
- When the built-in memory or memory card becomes full
z You are recommended to use a memory card that has been
formatted in your camera to shoot movies (p. 134). The card
supplied with the camera may be used without further
formatting.
z Be careful of the following while recording.
- Try not to touch the microphone (p. 40).
- Do not press any buttons other than the shutter button.
The sound that buttons make will be recorded in the movie.
- The camera will automatically adjust the exposure and
white balance to suit the shooting conditions during a
recording. Please note, however, that the sounds made by
the camera while automatically adjusting the exposure
may also be recorded.
z The focus and optical zoom settings remain fixed for
subsequent frames at the values selected for the first frame.