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SafariBob
SafariBob Veteran Member • Posts: 3,850
Re: No Av mode in video ?

dmartin92 wrote:

MarshallG wrote:

Why would you want continuously variable shutter speed when you shoot video?

Maybe you know something that I don’t. I am not an expert on this subject.

But to answer your question, for a limited DOF.

that would be more an nd use case imo.

Why a limited DOF ? For all the same reasons one would want it in a still photo.

Seemed to work very well with me sitting in a chair. The back of my apartment was completely out of focus.

I suspect such a mechanism is going to give a strange psychological effect, like a dolly zoom

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