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Shooting in Continuous (burst) mode

Shooting in Continuous (burst) mode

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Shooting in Continuous (burst) mode

- Out of the box, your camera shoots a single frame with each push of the shutter button. However, there are many shooting situations where shooting a burst, several photos in a row, can be desirable. Perhaps it's the laughter of a child or a running athlete. Card space is pretty cheap, so cover your bases and get a few extra shots. To change release modes, you're going to have to use the Multi Selector. Now, it's sometimes going to be its own separate ring here. In this case, it's right around the outside of our modes, if I press the button here, it releases it, and I can turn. Single, Continuous Low, or Continuous High. There are two common modes that let you caption a continuous stream of shots. Your camera will shoot several frames per second until the buffer gets full, and then the files transfer to the memory card. If you use a faster memory card, you can actually shoot longer, in continuous mode. So let's put this in continuous low mode and start to shoot and what you're going…

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