Canon A470 - Manual (Page 75)

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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 [ z Rec] 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 size
elapses
- 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. 122) . The
memory card supplied with the camera may be used without
further formatting.
z Be careful of the following while recording.
- Do not touch the microphone (p. 38) .
- Do not press any buttons other than the shutter, or
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
recording. Please note, however, that the sounds made
by the camera 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.
z Adjust the zoom before shooting. The factor of the combined
optical zoom and digital zoom display on the LCD monitor.
When the factor displays in blue, the image will deteriorate.
z Only in and in the Standard mode, the digital zoom
can be used during shooting.
z QuickTime is required to play back movies (Data type: AVI/
Compression method: Motion JPEG) on a computer (Only
Windows 2000).