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Menu Guide—Using the SHOOTING Menu

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Making Movies and Taking Pictures in a Sequence: Continuous

The Continuous menu sets how many pictures are
taken when the shutter-release button is pressed (and
held down). A movie option is also included for record-
ing short video clips with audio.

Option

Description

* fps = frames per second

Continuous

High

Maximum of three pictures recorded at three fps* when shutter-re-
lease button is held down. Monitor or viewfinder turns off automat-
ically during shooting. Not available at image quality setting of HI.

Single

Camera records one picture each time shutter-release button
is pressed.

Continuous

Low

Pictures recorded at1.5 fps (three frames every two seconds)
when shutter-release button is held down. Not available at im-
age quality setting of HI.

Multi-shot

16

Sixteen consecutive “thumbnail” images (640

×

480 pixels) re-

corded at three fps and combined into a collage (2560

×

1920

pixels). Image size setting must be FULL. Not available at im-
age quality setting of RAW or HI.

Movie

Records QVGA movies (320

×

240 pixels) at 15 fps, built-in mi-

crophone records sound. Press shutter-release button all the way
down to start movie. Press all the way down again to end mov-
ie. Movie ends automatically after 60 s or when memory card is
full (

77). Movies stored as QuickTime movie files with names

ending in “.MOV”. Digital zoom is limited to a factor of 2x.

Ultra HS

Records up to 100 QVGA (320

×

240 pixels) images at NOR-

MAL image quality at 30 fps when shutter-release button is
held down.

Image Size and Shutter Speed

At an image size setting of SXGA, XGA or VGA, and shutter speeds slower than

1

/

30

s, we recommend settings of Single or Continuous Low.