About Shooting Still Photos
 | While shooting a movie, you can also take a still photo by pressing the shutter button completely |
Taking still photos during movie shooting
If you take a still photo during movie shooting, the movie will record a still moment lasting approx. 1 sec.
The captured still photo will be recorded to the card, and the movie shooting will resume automatically when the Live View image is displayed.
The movie and still photo will be recorded as separate files on the card.
- If [Record func.] is set to [Standard] or [Auto switch card], the movies and still photos will be recorded to the same card. If [Rec. separately] or [Rec. to multiple] is set, the movies will be recorded to the card set for [The still photos will be recorded at the image-recording quality set for the respective card.
Functions particular to still photo shooting are shown below. Other functions will be the same as for movie shooting.
AEB cannot be used.
Even if an external Speedlite is used, it will not fire.
Continuous still photo shooting is possible during movie shooting. However, the captured images will not be displayed on the screen. Depending on the still photo’s image-recording quality, number of shots during continuous shooting, card performance, etc., movie shooting may stop automatically.
If [
: Movie shoot. btn] is set to [
], you cannot take still photos.
If you want to shoot still photos continuously during movie shooting, using a high-speed card is recommended. Setting a smaller image recording quality for still photos and shooting fewer continuous still photos are also recommended.
You can shoot still photos in all drive modes.
The self-timer can be used before you start shooting a movie. If used during movie shooting, the self-timer will switch to single-image shooting
