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Exploring Drive mode

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Exploring Drive mode

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The great photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson spoke extensively about the decisive moment; that one particular moment that happens that is the perfect decisive expression of the scene or event that you're trying to photograph. Now, because he was a genius, he was often able to fire his camera at the perfect decisive moment. For the rest of us, there's Drive mode. In Drive mode, as you hold the shutter button down on your camera, the camera will continue to snap frames one after another. Drive mode is a great tool for shooting in fast moving environments; sports, street shooting, and nature shots, for example. But it can also be ideal for portraiture, when a person's face is making lots of tiny subtle changes, and you're not sure which is the ideal expression. However, you can't use Drive mode indefinitely. That is, you can't just hold the button down, and expect the camera to always keep shooting. When you take a picture, the camera has to move a lot of data around, and do a lot of…

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