233Movie Shooting CautionsWhite <s> and Red <E> Internal Temperature Warning Icons If the camera’s internal temperature increases due to prolonged movieshooting or under a high ambient temperature, a white <s> or red <E>icon will appear. The white <s> icon indicates that the image quality of still photos willdeteriorate. You should stop still shooting and allow the camera’s internaltemperature to cool before shooting again. Since the movie’s imagequality will hardly deteriorate, movie shooting will continue. The red <E> icon indicates that the movie shooting will soon beterminated automatically. If this happens, you will not be able to shootagain until the camera’s internal temperature decreases. Turn off thepower and let the camera rest for a while. Shooting a movie at a high temperature for a prolonged period will causethe <s> or <E> icon to appear earlier. When you are not shooting, turnoff the camera.Recording and Image Quality If the attached lens has an Image Stabilizer and you set the ImageStabilizer (IS) switch to <1>, the Image Stabilizer will operate at alltimes even if you do not press the shutter button halfway. The ImageStabilizer consumes battery power and may shorten the total movieshooting time or decrease the number of possible shots. If you use atripod or if the Image Stabilizer is not necessary, it is recommended to setthe IS switch to <2>. The camera’s built-in microphone will also pick up camera operationnoise. Using a commercially-available external microphone can prevent(or reduce) these noises from being recorded. Do not connect anything other than an external microphone to thecamera’s external microphone IN terminal. If the brightness changes during autoexposure movie shooting, that partmay look momentarily still when you play back the movie. In such cases,shoot movies with manual exposure. If there is a very bright light source in the picture, the bright area mightappear black on the LCD monitor. The will be recorded in almost thesame way you see it on the LCD monitor. In low light, noise or irregular colors may appear in the image. The moviewill be recorded in almost the same way you see it on the LCD monitor.
