Canon S3IS PowerShot S3 IS Camera User Guide Advanced - Page 48

Using the Mode Dial

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Using the Mode Dial Movie Shooting Shooting Mode No matter what position the mode dial is in, you can shoot movies*1 with just a push of the Movie button. You can select the movie recording pixels and frame rate (p. 48) and shoot with color effects such as Color Accent, Color Swap, and My Colors. z Max. Clip Size: 1 GB*2 *1 You can record until the memory card is full (when a super high-speed memory card is used, such as the recommended SDC-512MSH). *2 Even if the clip size has not reached 1 GB, recording will stop at the moment the clip length reaches 1 hour. Depending on the storage capacity of the memory card and the speed at which the data is written, recording will stop before reaching 1 GB or 1 hour. 1 Press the Movie button to shoot. z Shooting starts when the Movie button is pressed. z Recording will include sound. z During shooting, the recording time (in seconds) and "z Rec." appear on the LCD monitor (or viewfinder). z The tally lamp blinks red during movie recording and turns off when the recording session is over. When [Tally Lamp] is set to [Off] in the Rec. menu, the lamp does not blink (p. 28). z Pressing the Movie button again stops recording. Recording will stop automatically under the following circumstances. - When the maximum recording time elapses - When the internal memory and the memory card becomes full z When shooting with the Color Accent or the Color Swap, be sure to specify them in mode beforehand (p. 53). z Even if you shoot movies with the recording pixels for still images set to , the aspect ratio of the recorded movie will be the usual 4:3 screen. 46

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Using the Mode Dial
No matter what position the mode dial is in, you can shoot movies
*1
with just a push of the Movie button.
You can select the movie recording pixels and frame rate (p. 48) and
shoot with color effects such as Color Accent, Color Swap, and My
Colors.
Max. Clip Size: 1 GB
*2
*1
You can record until the memory card is full (when a super high-speed
memory card is used, such as the recommended SDC-512MSH).
*2
Even if the clip size has not reached 1 GB, recording will stop at the moment
the clip length reaches 1 hour.
Depending on the storage capacity of the memory card and the speed at
which the data is written, recording will stop before reaching 1 GB or 1 hour.
1
Press the Movie button to shoot.
Shooting starts when the Movie button
is pressed.
Recording will include sound.
During shooting, the recording time (in
seconds) and "
Rec." appear on the
LCD monitor (or viewfinder).
The tally lamp blinks red during movie recording and turns off
when the recording session is over. When [Tally Lamp] is set to
[Off] in the Rec. menu, the lamp does not blink (p. 28).
Pressing the Movie button again stops recording.
Recording will stop automatically under the following
circumstances.
- When the maximum recording time elapses
-
When the internal memory and the memory card becomes full
When shooting with the Color Accent or the Color Swap, be
sure to specify them in
mode beforehand (p. 53).
Even if you shoot movies with the recording pixels for still
images set to
, the aspect ratio of the recorded movie will be
the usual 4:3 screen.
Movie Shooting
Shooting Mode