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Adjusting aperture

Adjusting aperture

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Adjusting aperture

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Robbie Carman: So earlier Rich we talked about the exposure triangle and there were three parts to it. There was shutter speed, aperture, and ISO, and here we are going to talk a little bit more in-depth about aperture. Richard Harrington: Yeah, the very first thing I would do before I monkeyed with aperture is set my camera to the default shutter speed. Typically, what this is going to be is if you're shooting a 30th a second, it's going to be 160th. So 13 frames per second equals 160th. If you're shooting 24, it's going to be technically a 48th; you only have a 50th as an option. Robbie Carman: Yeah, and a lot of people refer to this as the 180 degree shutter rule where your shutter speed is going to be double that of your frame rate. So if you're shooting, as Rich said, 30 frames a second, 160th for your shutter speed. Shoot in 24, 148th or as close as you can get to 150th. Richard Harrington: Yeah. So I've got that locked down already. I am looking at this here. Let me just get my…

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