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It’s nearly always better to get the settings
right before you start shooting a clip.
LOW LIGHT
The D5300 also scores when it comes to
shooting in low-light conditions.
› Shutter speed
You can (if the light’s good) set shutter
speeds right up to 1/4000 sec., but there
are inevitable limits to the slowest speed
you can select. For instance, if frame rate is
24, 25 or 30, the slowest possible speed is
1/30 sec. After all, if you’re shooting 25
frames a second you can’t expect each
frame to have a
1
/
2
sec. exposure.
Based on still photography experience,
you’ll probably expect faster shutter speeds
to give sharper pictures. In movies it
doesn’t work that way. If you shoot at, say,
1/500 sec., you will find that each frame
of the movie might appear sharp when
examined individually, but the motion
appears jerky when you play the movie.
This is because you have recorded 25 tiny
slices of the continuous action. 25 times
1/500 sec. is just 5% of the action. The
nearer the shutter speed is to 1/25 sec.,
the nearer you get to capturing 100%
and the smoother the motion appears.
However, in bright conditions, you
can’t shoot at 1/25 sec. and at the same
time use a really wide aperture for shallow
depth of field, even at ISO 100. Sometimes
you need to compromise, though a neutral
density filter (see page 209) could come
in handy.
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