user manual

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You can shoot still images while shooting a movie.
Focus while shooting a movie.
● Press the shutter button halfway.
X The focus and exposure will readjust (the
camera will not beep).
● The movie will continue shooting.
Shoot.
● Press the shutter button fully.
X The still image will record.
You may not be able to take still images when the writing speed to the memory
card is slow, or when there is insufficient internal memory.
• 4 (blinking): processing recorded image. You can shoot when it stops blinking.
• : Still images cannot be taken due to insufficient internal memory.
Taking Still Images while Shooting a
Movie
• While shooting in , the recording pixel setting for taking a still image
is (p. 70).
• If you take a still image while shooting in or , the recording pixel
setting will change to
even if you set it to (p. 70).
• The shutter sound and black screen when shooting a still image will be
recorded in the movie.
• The flash will not fire.
• The date and time an image was shot cannot be recorded in the lower
right corner.
• The ISO speed is locked to .
• i-Contrast (p. 96) cannot be used.
• If shooting still images fills the internal memory, the movie may stop
recording.
What if 4 changes and you can’t take a still image?