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S7 Camera - any way to set the exposure in Slo-Mo?

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plnelson

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The S7 Camera has lots of modes, including "Pro Mode" and "Slow Motion". But they seem to be mutually exclusive. Pro Mode gives you lots of ways of adjusting the exposure, including a +/- 2 EV slider, a manual ISO setting, and others. But nothing I do in Pro Mode seems to affect the exposures in Slow Motion and I often find that my slo-mo shots are one or two stops overexposed. Is there any way to adjust the exposure in slow motion shots?

Thanks in advance.
 
Not sure how on a phone but it's easy on a PC. Just get the video you shot in pro mode, slap it into a decent video editing software, and extend playback time to slow down the frame rate being played.
 
chanchan05 said:
Not sure how on a phone but it's easy on a PC. Just get the video you shot in pro mode, slap it into a decent video editing software, and extend playback time to slow down the frame rate being played.
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I'm sorry but I have no idea what this response has to do with my question. Extending playback time has nothing to do with setting exposure.
 
plnelson said:
I'm sorry but I have no idea what this response has to do with my question. Extending playback time has nothing to do with setting exposure.
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I thought you wanted to turn the video to slow motion. On a video editor, if you set a 5minute video to play for say 10 minutes, that's one way to convert a video to slow mo. You get a 60fps video and play it at say, 30fps by extending playback time.
 
plnelson said:
I don't know how you could have thought that from my question since I reference exposure in the title and four times in the body of the text.
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I probably should have worded my first post better. Any changes in the settings under pro mode would not affect the other modes. There is no way for you to do that with the default camera. One way is to simply get a video using pro mode so you keep your settings from that mode and use a PC to convert it to slow motion. Which is what I suggested, and sort of veered off topic.

I didn't suggest any third party camera app because they reportedly do not work well on the S7 units for some reason. If you do decide that route you can try Coach's Eye, but can't be sure if it would work any better.
 
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I don't see how slowing down "pro mode" video in post would help, because to get slow motion you have to shoot the initial content at a high frame rate. The S7 shoots slow motion at 240 fps but I don't see any place in pro mode to set the frame rate.

Here's a sample of the exposure problem in a video I made of the company dog chasing a ball. (the trouble starts at 1:20 - note how blown-out the dog's white fur is)

 
OP it sounds like Samsung restricted this due to the effects it will have on the processor causing exceptions or even modem crashes... It would take a huge toll on most devices to support both Pro and a Slo-Mo filter..
 
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