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Shooting video in Priority or Manual modes

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Shooting video in Priority or Manual modes

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In the last movie, you saw me shoot a video in Program mode. If you are just shooting home videos, or casual videos, or any type of amateur video, that's fine to use Program mode, or Scene Intelligent Auto mode. But if you want to be serious about video -- and with this camera, you can be very serious about video -- you're going to want to give some more thought to shutter speed. So I am going to you switch over to Shutter priority mode. Now, ideally, when you're shooting video, you want to use a shutter speed that is double your frame rate; that's going to give you the best quality of motion in your video. Earlier you saw me configure the camera to shoot at 30 frames per second, so I've dialed in a 60th of a second for my shutter speed. This is just like working with Shutter priority when shooting stills. With my shutter speed selected, when I meter, the camera is automatically going to choose an aperture, and it's chosen f/10 here, and ISO is set to Auto, so it's chosen ISO of 800…

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