Adjust Shutter Speed for the Best Video Images
Videomaker · 2013
So why then would you even want to set a shutter speed? Well, for a few reasons, but the big one is control. Very often we’ll rely on our camera’s internal electronics to choose a shutter speed and aperture-it usually does a pretty good job but can be confused by situations that are very dark or very light, such as something backlit by the sun or the inside of a dark room that you want to keep dark in your footage. For this reason you’ll sometimes want to tell the camera what settings to use rather than let it choose. Another reason is because you want to shoot at a particular aperture to achieve a certain depth of fi eld. In this chapter we’ll take a look at some reasons you’d want to set your shutter speed manually, but fi rst a little bit of background.