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09/14/2004 01:55:32 PM · #51 |
Just because I've just my head around the first DSLR for about a month and the subjects have mostly been birds, so I use S more than other with sometimes M. I haven't really tried P. But now I'm thinking of trying A out.
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09/14/2004 02:14:08 PM · #52 |
That was about what I was guessing. when I'm doing outdoor sports/nature photograpy, I use A priority, allowing for the fastest shutter possible , and then tinker with the allowed exposure manually, but there is a preset "sports" seting. How much, if ever do you use programs (landscape, portrait, night, sports, etc)?
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09/14/2004 02:23:51 PM · #53 |
Originally posted by hopper:
Oh, I forgot to add ... the only way to get to AI Servo on the D Rebel is to switch to "sports mode" which kicks you up to iso 400 and doesn't allow any exposure tweaking.
There aren't words to express how much this sucks :( |
If you will take a suggestion from someone that has never held a Rebel, but who has spent a great deal of time figuring out how to trick my camera into doing what I want it to do; here is something you can try (if the Rebel has similar settings).
On my Oly I have various auto modes, but I also have a 'my mode' in which settings are preserved from one session to the next. What I have found to be able to set those things the menus don't allow; place the camera in an auto mode that sets them the way I want them (hopefully there is one). Then set the 'my mode' to duplicate the current settings (my Oly has 'current' as one of the menu options). Once that is done, switch to 'my mode' and adjust the other settings as desired.
Hope that helps.
David
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09/14/2004 02:50:22 PM · #54 |
AV most of the time, Manual/TV occasionaly
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09/14/2004 03:13:00 PM · #55 |
For those of you who shoot manual mode a majority of the time, why do you choose this mode?
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09/14/2004 03:21:14 PM · #56 |
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
For those of you who shoot manual mode a majority of the time, why do you choose this mode? |
I'm curious about that myself. I shoot in AV mode almost all of the time, since I rarely meter more than two stops off the camera. I find it a lot faster to shoot in AV and still maintain complete creative control.
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09/14/2004 03:35:22 PM · #57 |
Sort of a silly question, but I don't have priority modes on my little camera:
When you're shooting in Aperture-priority (which makes the most sense to me), can you bracket your shots without switching to Manual mode?
Do most cameras let you override the ss in Av mode? |
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09/14/2004 03:46:28 PM · #58 |
Manual 100% of the time.
Sometimes the Auto modes don't give me the shutter speed or aperture settings that I want.
I use the in camera metering to get me close and view histograms to polish it up.
Since I started using a gray card also for White Balance, that's all I shoot there too... Custom White Balance all the time. |
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09/14/2004 04:09:27 PM · #59 |
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
Sort of a silly question, but I don't have priority modes on my little camera:
When you're shooting in Aperture-priority (which makes the most sense to me), can you bracket your shots without switching to Manual mode?
Do most cameras let you override the ss in Av mode? |
On the D60 and my Canon film bodies (both Elans),yes. It leaves the aperture alone and brackets on shutter speed. I can't swear that all SLRs do this, but I would be surprised if they did not.
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09/14/2004 04:14:30 PM · #60 |
I shoot in M all the time.
BradP said some aperatures are best for sharpness? Which ones are those? |
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09/14/2004 04:17:02 PM · #61 |
Originally posted by richterrell:
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
Sort of a silly question, but I don't have priority modes on my little camera:
When you're shooting in Aperture-priority (which makes the most sense to me), can you bracket your shots without switching to Manual mode?
Do most cameras let you override the ss in Av mode? |
On the D60 and my Canon film bodies (both Elans),yes. It leaves the aperture alone and brackets on shutter speed. I can't swear that all SLRs do this, but I would be surprised if they did not. |
Oh, shoot...I just realised that my question makes no sense. I tell ya, everytime I put a disclaimer in front of a question, I end up realising how dumb the question was!
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Edit: Nevermind, it does make sense.
Okay, so does anyone know if the digital rebel lets you override the shutter speed in Aperture priority mode so that you can bracket your shots?
Message edited by author 2004-09-14 16:18:41. |
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09/14/2004 04:33:18 PM · #62 |
Originally posted by _Armadildo_:
Originally posted by Artyste:
My camera is almost the same way.. in Shutter priority I range from 1/1000 - 3 sec.. but in Manual I range from 1/10,000 to 15 sec.
So shutter priority is pretty limited, compared to full Manual.
Having said that, I generally shoot in Aperature priority unless I'm indoors with very low ambient light. |
Interesting. I checked with my camera and even in shutter priority, I can still shoot up to 1/16,0000 - 30 sec.
Guess it's nice but at the same, it's so extreme, those are not shutter speeds one will use often... or maybe I just don't have enough experience to know when to use those ;) |
I used 1/5000 in my stopped motion II entry.. but I can't think of many situations where 1/10,000 or 1/15,000 would come in that handy. lol. Maybe hummingbirds? Insect macros? I dunno. as for long exposures.. they're great for if you ever go camping and want to take a nice exposure of the pure dark sky.
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09/14/2004 05:04:40 PM · #63 |
When I do portraits I use Full Manual set and metered at f11 exposed for 1/60.
I just started doing concert stuff and for that I used f1.8 exposed at 1/50 for low light stuff.. and f5.6 at 1/250 with a quick flash.
as for the other settings, only when I am confused on what to use (I'll see what the camera recommends and make adjustment according to what kind of effect I"m looking for
Joe
Message edited by author 2004-09-14 17:05:27.
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09/14/2004 05:07:24 PM · #64 |
Originally posted by Artyste:
Originally posted by _Armadildo_:
Originally posted by Artyste:
My camera is almost the same way.. in Shutter priority I range from 1/1000 - 3 sec.. but in Manual I range from 1/10,000 to 15 sec.
So shutter priority is pretty limited, compared to full Manual.
Having said that, I generally shoot in Aperature priority unless I'm indoors with very low ambient light. |
Interesting. I checked with my camera and even in shutter priority, I can still shoot up to 1/16,0000 - 30 sec.
Guess it's nice but at the same, it's so extreme, those are not shutter speeds one will use often... or maybe I just don't have enough experience to know when to use those ;) |
I used 1/5000 in my stopped motion II entry.. but I can't think of many situations where 1/10,000 or 1/15,000 would come in that handy. lol. Maybe hummingbirds? Insect macros? I dunno. as for long exposures.. they're great for if you ever go camping and want to take a nice exposure of the pure dark sky. |
I bet airshow shots would require that kind of shutter speed. It's the only thing I can think of except helicpter blades lol.
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09/17/2004 08:24:38 AM · #65 |
Depends on the situation & sometimes the camera. Generally, use A, P, then M.
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09/17/2004 09:06:42 AM · #66 |
Originally posted by magicshutter:
Originally posted by Artyste:
Originally posted by _Armadildo_:
Originally posted by Artyste:
My camera is almost the same way.. in Shutter priority I range from 1/1000 - 3 sec.. but in Manual I range from 1/10,000 to 15 sec.
So shutter priority is pretty limited, compared to full Manual.
Having said that, I generally shoot in Aperature priority unless I'm indoors with very low ambient light. |
Interesting. I checked with my camera and even in shutter priority, I can still shoot up to 1/16,0000 - 30 sec.
Guess it's nice but at the same, it's so extreme, those are not shutter speeds one will use often... or maybe I just don't have enough experience to know when to use those ;) |
I used 1/5000 in my stopped motion II entry.. but I can't think of many situations where 1/10,000 or 1/15,000 would come in that handy. lol. Maybe hummingbirds? Insect macros? I dunno. as for long exposures.. they're great for if you ever go camping and want to take a nice exposure of the pure dark sky. |
I bet airshow shots would require that kind of shutter speed. It's the only thing I can think of except helicpter blades lol. |
If you freeze the prop blades on an aircraft while it's flying, it somehow doesn't look right, it either looks like a model, or that it's about to drop out of the sky. The trick is to freeze the motion of the aircraft while getting some amount of blur in the prop. |
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09/17/2004 10:00:55 AM · #67 |
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
For those of you who shoot manual mode a majority of the time, why do you choose this mode? |
Is this another question to get us to think? : )
I use manual mode 98% because of the flexibility it offers. I have spot meter set, and the exposure bar inside the viewfinder lets me know how far any particular spot is off mid-point and I can judge how much over or under it should be. I then think about how much of the field needs to be in sharp focus. By setting the appropriate aperture and assessing the exposure compensation, I can dial in the shutter speed.
This may sound like a long process, but it only takes a few seconds and provides the safest method I've found for both metering and depth of field, especially if a few points are spot meter checked.
In aperture mode, I can still do this, but on the D70, the exposure compensation button isn't as accessible as the front and back dials. Besides, exposure compensation is only +/-5, whereas in manual mode you can turn black white and vice-versa. Furthermore, in aperture mode, I'd need to dial in the exposure compensation at the top of the camera for each spot metered point individually rather than simply twirl a dial with my thumb. |
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