Nikon D7000 and D600 Aperture Adjustment in Video Movie Mode Workaround

The Nikon D7000 and D71000 cameras have an annoying flaw that prevents users shooting video from changing the aperture for video/movie shooting in Live View Mode. There are two possible workarounds for this:

1.  Go out of Live View, adjust the Aperture, then go back in Live View.

2. Switch from Live View in Movie Mode to Live View in Photo Mode, make your Aperture Adjustments, and then go back to Movie Mode.

The reason the camera cannot change the aperture is because it lacks an extra motor (that their expensive flagship camera do have) that allows the feature to work.

This same design flaw also affects the Nikon D300s and Nikon D600 cameras.