Shooting Information Display

You can customize the details and screens of information shown on the screen or in the viewfinder during movie recording.

Note

  • For details on the following topics, see Shooting Information Display for still photo shooting.

    • Customizing Information on the Screen
    • Customizing Information in the Viewfinder
    • Grid
    • Histogram
    • Electronic Level Size
    • Battery Level (%) Display
    • Card Free Space (%) Display
    • Lens Information Display
    • Clearing Settings

Waveform Setting

You can display a waveform monitor on the screen or in the viewfinder. It is displayed on external monitors during HDMI output.

  1. Select [Shooting: Shooting info. disp.] ().

  2. Select [Waveform setting].

  3. Set [Wave. monitor disp.] to [On].

  4. In [Type], select a waveform monitor option.

    • Line

      Displays a waveform of the entire image, with horizontal coordinates of the image on the horizontal axis and brightness values on the vertical axis.

    • RGB

      RGB parade display, with horizontal coordinates of the image on the horizontal axis and RGB brightness values on the vertical axis.

Caution

  • The waveform monitor is not displayed in [Scene Intelligent Auto (movies)] shooting mode.

Note

  • The waveform monitor is also shown on the screen for adjusting custom picture image quality.

Recording Emphasis

  1. Select [Shooting: Shooting info. disp.] ().

  2. Select [Recording emphasis].

    • On

      The screen is outlined in red while movie recording is in progress.

    • Off

      No frame is displayed to call attention to recording in progress.

Aspect Marker

If you will change the image aspect ratio when editing the recorded movie, you can display aspect markers on the movie recording screen (during standby and recording) to be aware of the final angle of view after editing.

  1. Select [Shooting: Shooting info. disp.] ().

  2. Select [Aspect marker].

  3. Select an option.

    • Select a display option.

Note

  • Markers are not shown during movie playback (recorded movies are not tagged with aspect marker information).