How to Use the Shutter Priority Mode on a Canon XH A1

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So the next program mode I want to talk about is the shutter priority mode and it is represented by a capital T, little v, and basically on this mode, everything is going to be automatic, the camera is going to be controlling everything the only thing you control is the shutter speed. And the dial for that is down here, and you just move it up and down control the shutter speed. And basically on, like a film camera the shutter speed is the amount of time each frame of film is being exposed and so what does that mean on your video camera? So I am going to turn it around so that you can see our little LCD screen here, right now we are at sixty and if you can see my hand it looks pretty normal but what happens if you go, once you start increasing the shutter speed, you see the numbers go up, things are getting darker for one thing and there might be, you can't really tell right now but there's the movement is more crisp, so if I go too high it will be too dark in here. The camera is trying to adjust the aperture itself, but when I get these really high numbers you can't do anything. And when you get all the way to the top, you get CS, which means clear scan which allows you to shoot computer screens without getting those annoying little lines floating down the screen. And so let me go back and here is what happens if you set it on the lower side here. So now we're getting pretty close, see we're at six and you can see now you get this, this kind of effect right here, which might be cool if you are going for that effect but you definitely don't want to set a real low shutter speed and just try to record normal things. So the lower it is, the more light is coming in and if you were in a really dark situation setting a lower shutter speed might be a good idea, but other than that you kind of want to keep it at least at twenty four to get crisp movement, any lower you get those you know, tracers or whatever. So that's a little bit about the shutter priority mode, and like I said, it gives you complete control of the shutter but everything else the camera is just controlling.

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