Owner's Manual

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Recording and Viewing Movies
Movies can be recorded in live view.
1 Rotate the live view switch.
The mirror is raised and the view through the lens is
displayed in the monitor instead of the viewfinder.
2 Focus.
Frame the opening shot and focus as described in Steps 2
and 3 of “Framing Photographs in the Monitor” (0 99; see
also “Focusing in Live View” on pages 0 100–102).
Note
that the number of subjects that can be detected in face-
priority AF drops during movie recording.
3 Start recording.
Press the movie-record button to start recording (the
camera can record both video and sound; do not cover the
microphone on the front of the camera during recording).
A recording indicator and the time available are displayed
in the monitor.
Except in i and j modes, exposure can
be locked by pressing the AE-L/AF-L button (0 69) or (in
modes P, S, A, M, and %) altered by up to ±3 EV in steps of
1
/3 EV using exposure compensation (0 70). Note that the
built-in microphone may record lens noise during
autofocus and vibration reduction.
Recording Movies
D The 0 Icon
A 0 icon (
0 103) indicates that movies can not be recorded.
A Before Recording
Set aperture before recording in mode A or M (if you are using a
PC-E lens, you can also modify aperture while recording in live
view).
Live view switch
Movie-record button
Recording indicator
Time remaining