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Using commercially available external microphones
Advanced shooting
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• If you attach an external microphone (optional), you can use the
optical zoom while recording sound with a movie.
• If the camera is more than 1 m (3.3 ft.) away from the source of the
sound, sound may not be recorded clearly by the built-in
microphone.
You can attach an external microphone to the camera and record sound.
When R is set to ON, sound is recorded with the picture or movie.
1 Turn the camera off and connect the terminal of the
external microphone to the A/V OUT jack.
• Attaching an external microphone disables the built-in microphone.
2 Set the camera’s sound recording function to ON to
record sound.
• See the following pages for details.
g“Recording sound with still pictures” (P.103)
g“Recording sound with movies” (P.104)
g“Recording sound” (P.139)
TIPS
• For more details on supported external microphones, refer to the
Olympus Web site.
http://www.olympus.com/
Using commercially available external microphones