It takes less than one second to launch the camera from the lock screen and the camera's autofocus locks in on your subject in under a second, to take nearly unlimited continuous shots simply by holding the shutter button.

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The new standard of practice is to lock down the camera and move the action around it, instead of the reverse, which is the case in today's 2D movies.

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The first is quite a doozy -- fairly often, pressing the shutter release in record mode will simply cause the camera to lock up.

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