Shooting Movies - Sony ILCE-6500 Manual

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[140] Recording movies

Shooting movies

You can record movies by pressing the MOVIE (Movie) button.
Press the MOVIE button to start recording.
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Since the [MOVIE Button] is set to [Always] in the default setting, movie recording can
be started from any shooting mode.
Press the MOVIE button again to stop recording.
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Hint
You can assign the start/stop movie recording function to a preferred key. MENU →
Settings2) → [Custom Key(Shoot.)] → set the function to the preferred key.
When you want to specify the area to be focused on, set the area using [Focus Area].
To keep the focus on a face, arrange the composition so that the focus area frame and face
detection frame overlap, or set the [Focus Area] to [Wide].
You can focus quickly while shooting movies by pressing the shutter button halfway down. (The
sound of auto focus operation may be recorded in some cases.)
To adjust the shutter speed and aperture value to the desired settings, set the shooting mode to
(Movie/S&Q Motion).
The following settings for still image shooting are applied to the movie shooting:
White Balance
Creative Style
Metering Mode
Smile/Face Detect.
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