Camcorder User Manual

Capturing Video Clips and Special Shots
3-2
Follow these steps to record a video clip:
1
Turn the camera dial to and press the
POWER
button to turn on the camera.
You see a screen like the following:
2
To turn the sound on or off, press the button next to the
Sound
setting.
3
Push the
T
(telephoto) button to zoom in on your
subject or the
W
(wide angle) button to zoom out. You
see a display with green zoom steps and the current
zoom position in yellow.
Make sure it is zoomed to the position you want; you
can’t change the zoom setting once you’ve started
recording.
4
Press the shutter button to begin recording your video
clip. If you want to stop the recording, press the shutter
button again.
You see the red letters
REC
on the screen while your
camera is recording. When the recording is done, the
camera displays
Please wait...
and takes a minute to
store the video.
To play back your video clip, see page 6-9.
Continuous Shooting
In this mode, you can capture a complex motion in a series
of steps. You can capture the following numbers of
continuous shots per sequence: thirty-seven standard images
(two per second), seven fine images (one per second), or up
to three super fine images (one per second).
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