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Canon A590 IS User Manual

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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. 141)

. 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.