Manual aperture on the 500d
One of the only things I hated about the video feature on my 500d (aka rebel t1i) was the fact that it was full auto, so would jump the aperture down to something like f/16 in bright light, hence ruining the point of having a video camera with a fast lens. But then I discovered a little trick (http://bit.ly/5SqONZ), to enable manual aperture. By first setting the aperture to whatever I want in AV setting, then I twist the lens [...]
