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Advice on Shooting Movies

Started Dec 25, 2013 | Discussions thread
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Re: Advice on Shooting Movies

Another tip: use the flash button (or the softbutton on the touchscteen at the left bottom) to switch AF off/ on before and during scenes. Once focus is OK, switch AF off until there's a need to refocus. This helps to prevent the camera from changing focus. This gives you simple control over the focus and the composition while you're recording. Very handy! (With an STM lens this works quite smoothly and is also a nice way to get rid of noisy focus hunting effects with non-STM lenses)

Rethink aperture! A small aperture (eg f11 and above) and helps to increase depth of field (like the small sensor camcorders). Indoors this might mean a big increase in ISO but compared to a camcorder the output will still be very good. Don't worry about diffraction. Just try it!

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