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Yes, you can shoot with the cam plugged in. Your files will be safe when you unplug, with or without the batt.

But they recommend you have it plugged into AC power when transferring to PC. If it's only on batt and the batt dies during the transfer, your files may get corrupted.

I do. There have been lots of threads started since September. You started one thread which got replies and it appears there are no open questions in it. You asked another question of a specific user in another thread and he has not responded -- it appears that he has not been here since the day bef...

Great advice from Doughie. While most cams of this type have a Fireworks preset, this one doesn't. But the manual does say to use the Outdoor WB for fireworks. It's the only mention of fireworks anywhere in the manual. But as Doughie says it probably doesn't matter much which preset WB you use, as l...

Steve's right -- the CX700 will do everything you want. But it is a small consumer handycam and doesn't allow for a lot of pro-type adjustment on the fly. All commands are menu driven via the touch screen. But the images are fantastic, it has a lot of features and the price is within your budget. On...

No, I don't do anything. It's in auto and when it asks for more ND, if you ignore it, it pushes the shutter speed up if it can't move the iris any more (which it can't because I've set the limit to 5.6 or 6.8 or something around there under AT IRIS LIMIT). So when it has stopped down as far as it ca...

What shutter speed did you use to film the soccer game? I mostly shoot in modified auto mode, so my shutter was locked on 60, except for the few times when the cam wanted me to use a higher level on ND and I didn't, so it switched to 125 or even 250. I liked a few of those stroby shots so I include...

Certainly I think most amateurs overdo camera motion, waving the thing around wildly like a fire hose and making everyone seasick. In most cases we should indeed let the action unfold in front of a mostly stationary camera. But there are times when the camera can and should move. I don't think there...

The webcam look is caused not just by a slow shutter speed, but more by a low frame rate. 60 is the default shutter speed for 30 fps because the traditional shutter speed is always half (double) the frame rate, since the film days, because of the physics of the shutters on film cameras. Faster shutt...

I can't honestly tell you whether there isn't any skew or I just don't notice it. When I do a slow cinematic pan, there is no evidence of skewing that I can see, but I may just be missing it. When I do a whip pan for effect, the evidence of this is obviously buried in the blur of the shot and is not...

The three vs one chip has nothing to do with the sharpness, which is likely a function of the optics. Three chips potentially get you better color but no advantage with either sharpness or low light. Nearly all new cams are CMOS. There are a few CCD cams still being made but none by Sony. A used FX1...