Canon A580 PowerShot A580 Camera User Guide - Page 74

72 3 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.