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Choosing a continuous shooting speed

Choosing a continuous shooting speed

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Choosing a continuous shooting speed

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- When you're photographing a moving subject, it can sometimes be tricky to trigger your exposure. To take a picture at just the right moment to capture your subject in the right position or with the right gesture, for example, and that's why we have continuous shooting modes on our cameras, but there actually are options between what I would call slow speed continuous shooting and fast speed. They usually have two speeds for continuous shooting, and so at the moment, for example, this camera is set to slow speed which for most cameras usually means somewhere around two to three frames per second and so if you listen, we're capturing images continuously as long as I'm pressing and holding the shutter release button down, but it's not exactly a very fast frame rate, and so with especially fast moving subjects, for example, you're in front of this barn and there were some swallows flying around. These are fast moving…

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