#5. "RE: help reducing noise in movie mode." In response to In response to 4
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Despite the fact that when you change the aperture setting on the camera the reading changes the aperture does not change. This is a well known bug with Nikon DSLRs in video mode (unless remedied in the D3200 which I don't know well).
Regardless, changing the aperture is very unlikely to have an effect on noise, at the same ISO, so forget experimenting with that.
If you're getting lots of noise at ISO 400 then something is wrong for sure.
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