• Movie Mode - PowerShot A530 & A540

  Use this mode to shoot movie frames. The resolution can be set to either [(640 X 480)] , [(320 X 240)] or [(160 X 120)].

  1. Turn on the camera, and set the mode switch to .
  2. Set the shooting mode dial to . The LCD monitor turns on and displays the maximum recording time (in seconds).
  3. Select a movie mode using the or button. For a description of each movie mode, click here.
  4. 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 (in seconds) and [Rec] appears 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
  • When the built-in memory or memory card becomes full

• You are recommended to use a memory card that has been formatted in your camera to shoot movies. The memory card supplied with the camera may be used without further formatting.
• Be careful of the following while recording:
• • Try not to touch the microphone.
  • 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.
  • The focus and optical zoom settings remain fixed for subsequent frames at the values selected for the first frame.

• Sound is recorded monaurally.
• There is no shutter sound in movie mode.
• QuickTime 3.0 or later may be required to play back movies (Data type: AVI/Compression method: Motion JPEG) on a computer. QuickTime (for Windows) is included on the Canon Digital Camera Solution Disk. On the Macintosh platform, this program is standard with Mac OS X or later.

• Resolution: . (640 x 480), . (320 x 240)
• Frame Rate: . (30 frames/sec.), . (15 frames/sec.)^*
• Maximum Size: 1 GB/movie^**
• To change between the 2 available resolutions and 2 available frame rates, press the <FUNC./SET> button, make the selections in the function menu, then press <FUNC./SET> again.

^*The frame rate can be selected only for PowerShot A540.

^**Even if the size of the movie data has not reached 1GB, recording may stop when a shooting time of 1 hour has elapsed.

• Resolution: . (320 x 240)
• Frame Rate: . (60 frames/sec.)
• Maximum Clip Length: 1 minute

• Resolution: . (160 x 120)
• Frame Rate: . (15 frames/sec.)
• Maximum Clip Length: 3 minutes

• Resolution: . (640 x 480), . (320 x 240)
• Frame Rate: . (30 frames/sec.), . (15 frames/sec.)^*
• Maximum Size: 1 GB/movie^**
• To change between the 2 available resolutions and 2 available frame rates, press the <FUNC./SET> button, make the selections in the function menu, then press <FUNC./SET> again.

^*The frame rate can be selected only for PowerShot A540.

^**Even if the size of the movie data has not reached 1GB, recording may stop when a shooting time of 1 hour has elapsed.