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5.36 MOVIE

Menu Position MENU  8  Movie

What it Does Allows you to configure Shutter priority, Aperture Priority,
Manual Exposure, as well as Program mode movies.

Recommended Setting “It depends”.

Constraints Only available when the exposure mode dial is set to “ ”.

Hate the fact that pressing the red button in all other modes doesn’t give
you any control over f/stop or shutter speed while making movies? Then
this is definitely for you.
Basically, all you have to do is move the Mode dial to “Movie” and then
this function will allow you to have full manual control over everything.
You can choose whether you want Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, or
Manual video mode by moving the exposure mode dial to the Movie setting
and selecting from one of 4 choices. These modes are the equivalent to
their still-shooting counterpart modes; for example you can specify f/stop
(Movie-A), shutter speed (Movie-S), or both (Movie-M).
When in movie mode:

 If you’re going to be focusing manually, the use of Peaking Level

Figure 5-85: The Movie exposure mode lets you take control of the
aperture, shutter, or both.