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Enabling safety shift

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Enabling safety shift

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I want you to consider a scenario with me. Just bear with me; I think you're going to find this a really gripping tale, and it's got a really nice ending. You're in aperture priority, you're shooting with a lens that can open all the way to 2.8, you've dialed in 2.8 on your camera, which tells your camera to shoot at f/2.8, gives you super shallow depth of field, and your camera calculates a shutter speed that's appropriate for that aperture. In fact, it decides that 1/8000 of a second, its maximum shutter speed, is the only one that's fast enough to give you a good exposure at f/2.8. Then everything is going great, and suddenly, in mid-shoot, the sun comes out from behind a cloud, and it makes your scene much brighter. But because your camera is in Aperture priority mode, the camera isn't allowed to change aperture, and it needs to cut down the light, but it's already at its fastest shutter speed. It can't do anything! Your image will be over exposed! But, if you enable the safety…

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