You won't have to give up half your hard drive space to do it: The motion-activated program captures images only when it's triggered and provides a time-stamped video of events as they occur without recording the inactivity between events.

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Finally, there's a new best shot mode called Slow View, which captures a full-res ultra slow-motion video clip of your subject and then plays it back on the LCD.

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In the most thrilling of these sequences, the camera captures the ripple of flesh and the flaring red nostril of a horse in motion.

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