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Essential camera settings

Essential camera settings

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Essential camera settings

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Now, if you've never used a professional camera before, don't worry. Once you understand these three settings, you can shoot with any camera. The first one is ISO. So ISO is basically your camera's light sensitivity. So the higher the number, the brighter your image or your videos would be, but too high and your footage will look very grainy. So here's my recommended setting for ISO. If you're shooting in a broad daylight, use a low ISO, so something around 100 to 400, and that way, you can get some really clean, crisp video footage. But if you're shooting at night or in a very low-light environment, make sure to increase your ISO to about 800 to 3,200. But don't go anything too high because you're going to get super noisy video footage. The second thing that you need to understand is shutter speed. Now shutter speed is how long the camera lets light in. A slow shutter speed means more motion blur, and a fast shutter speed means freezes the moment. And here's the key thing that you…

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