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Canon A650 IS User Manual

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Shooting Using the Mode Dial

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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 [

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Rec] 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 elapses or the maximum

recording capacity is reached

- When the built-in memory or memory card becomes full

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You are recommended to use a memory card that has been
formatted in your camera to shoot movies

(p. 56)

. The

memory card supplied with the camera may be used without
further formatting.

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Be careful of the following while recording.
- Do not touch the microphone

(pp. 19

,

38)

.

- 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
recording. Please note, however, that the sounds made
by the camera automatically adjusting the exposure may
also be recorded.

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The focus and optical zoom settings remain fixed for
subsequent frames at the values selected for the first frame.

QuickTime is required to play back movies (Data type: AVI/
Compression method: Motion JPEG) on a computer (Only
Windows 2000).