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Why is there a 30 second limit on movies with the Canon P90? Can you shoot longer movies with a bigger memory card?--daniel
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why is there a 30 sec. limit on movies?
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Matt
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My guess is that this is the maximum amount of time that can be held in the camera's memory buffer before being offloaded to the CF card. This is just a guess though, maybe someone else will have a better answer!
curly
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It doesn't matter what size card you put in there, you'll only get 30 seconds at a time. I'm not sure why they did what they did, but there's probably a logical explanation for it.
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daniel39876
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I figured it was something like that...I guess 30 secs is a long enough movie for playing around with...Thanks.
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okay...fair enough...so then how long before the thirty seconds starts over? In other words, can I wait five seconds and then take another thirty second movie? That would be great!
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Hey you did buy it for taking still photos right? I think the little video feature is a nice plus for taking pictures of the baby for email, etc...
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Exactly. Just curious. I haven't bought it yet, just thinking about it. Seems like a bitchin' camera, though.
30 seconds is more than enough for a single scene. With the 1GB card, you can film approximately 70 minutes worth of video. String it together with an editor and voila. I have not received an explanation from Canon as to whether this 30 second limitation is due to a buffer (I doubt) or a file naming issue (probably).
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