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DSLR recording time limits

DSLR recording time limits

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DSLR recording time limits

Rich Harrington: Hi, my name is Richard Harrington. Robbie Carman: And I am Robbie Carman. Rich: And today we are going to talk about record limits, which if you are not familiar with them, really can turn around and just bite you. Robbie: Yeah, you know it's one of the things where I think for a long time people using traditional video cameras, where you put a tape in or even nowadays a card in have never realized this issue of record limits. Your record limits was only limited by how long your tape was or how the capacity of your car, what that was, but with DSLRs, even though you might have a 32-gig card or a 64-gig card, depending on the camera, the actual camera itself, also depending on the manufacturer, there are different recording length limitations imposed. Rich: Yeah, and where this is going to really affect you is how long you can record, and that time can also vary for a wide range of reasons. We are going to talk about the technical and some of the legal aspects in a…

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