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Enjoying movies, Shooting movies – Sony DSC-P8 User Manual

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Shooting movies

Mode dial:

You can shoot movies using your camera.

Before starting

Set [Moving Image] to [MPEG Movie] in
the SET UP settings (pages 39 and 104).

a

Set the mode dial to

.

b

Press

(Image Size).

The Image Size setup appears.

c

Select the desired size with

v

/

V

.

You can choose from 640 (VGA) or
160 (Mail).
For details on the recording time for
each image size, see page 99.

d

Press the shutter button fully
down.

“REC” appears on the screen and the
camera starts recording the image and
sound.

Recording stops when the “Memory
Stick” is full.

e

Press the shutter button fully
down again to stop recording.

Indicators during shooting

The screen indicators are not recorded.
Each time you press

, the status of the

LCD screen changes as follows: Indicators
off

t LCD screen off t Indicators on.

A histogram is not displayed.
For a detailed description of the indicators,
see page 113.

Shooting close-ups (Macro)

Set the mode dial to

and follow the

procedure on page 24.

Using the self-timer

Set the mode dial to

and follow the

procedure on page 25.

Do not touch the microphone (page 8) during
shooting movies.

You cannot use the flash.

The date and time are not superimposed onto
movies.

The zoom feature cannot be used while
shooting movies.

Mode dial

Control button

MENU

Shutter

REC 00:00:02[00:10:48]

101

VGA

60

min

Enjoying movies

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