Sanjeev Sabhlok's notes on technology, hardware, gardening

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Setting up home studio for Nikon D3300

KEY FEATURES

DX Format, 24.2 Megapixels, 5 FPS Continuous Shooting, 100-12800 ISO (Expandable to 25600), Full HD 1080p at 60/50/30/25/24p

VIDEO LENGTH LIMIT

Nikon D3300 can shoot 30 minutes (OK, 29m59s) continuously of 1080p, 30fps in “Normal Quality” mode. That reduces to 20 minutes in “High Quality” mode.

Start a timer with the recording and at 18 minutes stop the video and resume. 

PANAROMIC IMAGE: Can’t get the whole scene into your frame? Turn on Easy Panorama Mode and pan across the scene—the D3300 will capture the entire view as a high-resolution panoramic image.

DOWNLOAD NIKON D3300 MANUALS

Reference Manual (complete instructions) User’s Manual

HOW TO SHOOT A VIDEO


HOW TO FOCUS

Before shoot a video of yourself, set up something, such as a paper bag face mounted on a stand that’s going to be kept where you will then go and sit.

Now move back to the camera. Set the camera into Manual mode. Press Live View mode.

Zoom to the max possible. Focus on the paper bag face by half pressing the button.

Now zoom back.

Now don’t adjust the camera or move it or move yourself.

LIGHTING

AUTO-MODE AND MANUAL MODE RECORDING:

CONTROL D3300 WITH A DASHBOARD APP

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Solution: Motorola Device Manager not working on PC with Moto G4 plus

After installing Motorola Device Manager I got a small telephone type image with Moto G(4) written on it when I connected with USB. No internal files visible.

SOLUTION:

Disconnect USB

Go to Settings > Apps

Now look at the dot dot image and you’ll find “Show System”. Now you need to, one by one, go to : External Storage and Media Storage

For each of these click on the image and then on “storage”. You’ll find “data” and “cache”.

Clear these two on each of these.

Reboot.

Give it 5 min after full boot up.

Now connect USB again. You’ll get a menu – Pick “file transfers” (MTP). I don’t have a copy of the menu but it will look something like this:

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