The SP-510 UZ has a DIS Movie Mode. What is it, and how does it work?
DIS Movie mode is a kind of digital cropping feature that helps keep the subject of a movie in the center of the movie frame even if the camera moves. During movie recording, the SP-510 UZs entire CCD receives image data; however, when the camera writes to its memory (or memory media), it only uses a portion of this data. The viewable portion has the same aspect ratio as the movie frame but is smaller. The extra pixels that border the content are cropped out. As each frame of the movie is built, the camera locates the subject and adjusts the viewable portion of the image data as necessary in order to realign the subject with the center of the movie frame. Any pixels that fall outside of the viewable area are cropped out. An example may best serve to illustrate this concept: In the graphics below, the subject a statue is immobile. The statue is above eye-level and, absent a tripod, the photographer is holding the SP-510 UZ in his/her hand. The larger pair of images represents all of the
