Digital Camera only recording video for 3 minutes?
November 30th, 2009 | 
Author: It’s happened with every digital camera. I have enough memory to record longer, I don’t stop it. It just stops recording after 3 minutes. I currently have a powershot A520. It’s happened to me with various types of Powershot cameras. Is there a setting to fix it? Can I just not record long videos? Thanks for any information!
My A570IS only records for 60 seconds.
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My A570IS only records for 60 seconds.
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not sure about your cam but in mine i had the same problem so after looking through the options for some time i finally figured it out.. so just try to access the options when you are in the video mode
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The manual will tell you the answer to your question.
The camera will either record until the memory card is full, until a certain file size is reached, or for a set maximum time. The manual will tell you which, and what any limit might be. If you don’t have yours, I am sure you can find an electronic copy on the Canon website.
If the camera records in AVI, the maximum file size is 2GB. 3 minutes shouldn’t come anywhere near that. Quicktime is basically unlimited in file size.
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