Owner's Manual

Recording 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.
~ The. Icon
A. icon (OJ 48) indicates that movies can not be recorded.
.. Before Recording
Set aperture before recording in mode Aor M.
Live view switch
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2 Focus.
Frame the opening shot and focus as described in Steps 2
and 3
of "Framing Photographs in the Monitor" (OJ 44; see
also IIFocusing in Live View" on pages OJ 45-47). 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 8 and @ modes, exposure can
be locked by pressing the
AE-UAF-L button or (in modes P, S,
A, M, and~) altered by up to ±3 EV in steps of
1/3 EV using exposure compensation. Note that the built-
in microphone may record lens noise during autofocus
and vibration reduction.
Time remaining
4 End recording.
Press the movie-record button again to end recording. Recording will end
automatically when the maximum length
is reached, the memory card is full,
another mode
is selected, the lens is removed, or the monitor is closed (closing
the monitor does not end recording on televisions or other external displays).
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