Movies on a Digital Still Camera (Canon A700)

On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:37:45 GMT, bren wrote:

> I am impressed by the results of the Movie mode on my new Canon Powershot
> A700. However I could only manage a 22 second (about 40mb) clip before the
> movie stopped, presumably with a full buffer. This rose to about 30 seconds
> with a freshly formatted card. The camera is supposed to be able to use up
> to 1gig of memory card in a movie. My memory is 512mb Kinston brand. Would a
> high speed card improve the results? Has anyone out there any experience of
> this, regards, Bren.

According to Canon, you should be able to record movie clips
slightly longer than 4 minutes if you use a sufficiently fast, high
speed memory card.
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"bren" <brenpreece RemoveThis @tesco.net> wrote in message
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> I am impressed by the results of the Movie mode on my new Canon Powershot
> A700. However I could only manage a 22 second (about 40mb) clip before the
> movie stopped, presumably with a full buffer. This rose to about 30
seconds
> with a freshly formatted card. The camera is supposed to be able to use up
> to 1gig of memory card in a movie. My memory is 512mb Kinston brand. Would
a
> high speed card improve the results? Has anyone out there any experience
of
> this, regards, Bren.
>
I haven't used the movie mode much on my A620 but I just did a continuous
nearly 4 minute long test clip (the batteries died) without a problem using
a PQI 4GB 150X SD card. I'll try an even longer clip just to see if there's
a limit with this high speed card. With 4GB, you can get about 30 minutes
total video. This assumes the "Standard" 640X480, 30fps setting.
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