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How to use focus lock: Sometimes you don't want your camera to automatically focus on what is in the center of the screen. Firstly, aim your camera at the object you want to focus on, and let your camera use its auto-focus to focus on it. Then depress the shutter release button half-way, and keep it there to lock the focus on that object. Then, while holding down that button half-way, point the camera at the scene you want to photograph, and then push the button all the way down. The object you focussed on should remain in focus.   thesource (378)

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Main > Hobbies > Arts and crafts > Graphics > Photography > Digital photography
Reducing wind noise in full-size microphones:
  • A foam wind-reducer (open-cell foam) that fits over your microphone will be okay for indoors, but for outdoors you will need to invest in a furry cover for your microphone. Even better is "blimp", which is a furry-covered cage, which houses your microphone, suspended in rubber bands.
  • Sometimes wind noise is caused by the wind passing over the point where your microphone connects with the cord, or at the point of switches on the handle of your microphone, so seal these with electrical tape.
  • If you still have wind noise in your audio, you can use a "high pass" filter, in an audio editing program, and using a cut-off frequency of around 200Hz. But by doing this you will lose some wanted sounds as well. You can also try other noise reduction filters if you have a part of your video that has wind noise and nothing else to use as a sample for the noise reduction filter to work from.   thesource (378)

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    Main > Hobbies > Arts and crafts > Graphics > Photography > Digital photography
    Camcorder tips:
  • Reduce wind noise: You can make a windscreen for the compact microphone of your camcorder with the the gauze-like padding of an adhesive bandage. Taped over the mic’s tiny port, the “screen” does an admirable job of muffling, even eliminating, the sound of wind.
  • Reduce camera shake by not zooming so much, and by using a tripod, a monopod, or by leaning up against a tree or a wall.   thesource (378)

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    Main > Hobbies > Arts and crafts > Graphics > Photography > Digital photography
    Reduce wind noise on a compact camera:
  • Cover the microphone port with sticky tape. There will still be audio, but the wind noise will be greatly reduced.   thesource (378)

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    Main > Hobbies > Arts and crafts > Graphics > Photography > Digital photography
    Camera stabilization:
  • Put a strap from the camera around your neck and keep it taught. This will reduce camera shake.   thesource (378)

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