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03/31/2005 01:03:50 AM · #1 |
I just brought home a Fuji Finepix S5100. I like it a lot and it's a great upgrade from my S3000.
My question is, with all these new manual adjustments I now have, how do I decide when to use the "auto" for everything or to adjust things manually? My main use is going to be for freelance spot news (house fires, ect) but I also have been doing macro and lots of building/architecture shots. I guess common sence says mess with manual settings when the subject will be stationary (buildings, ect) but with a "one time shot" senario like a house fire I am afraid to mess with manual settings.
Any spot news photogs that can help me out? |
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03/31/2005 01:11:00 AM · #2 |
Welcome to the club!! I'm really happy with mine, and I use it mainly for art photography.
I've discovered that when you already master the manual settings it is faster to use it in manual than to wait for it to calculate everything for you. One mode I've found really useful is the continuous shooting mode!
The only thing I've discovered really hard to use manually is the focus, so I still use it in continuous auto focus.
Congratulations and happy shooting!! |
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03/31/2005 02:18:53 AM · #3 |
| I go back and forth. Depending on what I'm taking pictures of. What I would suggest is going out and shootign all sorts of different pictures useing both manual and auto. I'm still doing that. Sometimes I get good pics with manual sometimes I get good pics with auto. Generally I leave it on auto because I'm just taking a "snapshot" and not trying to take a "photograph." I've actually found that I don't really care for the continuous shoot option a lot (at least in auto mode, it's too slow). Overall I like it better than my old S5000. |
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03/31/2005 02:24:32 AM · #4 |
I tend to stay in Aperature Priority mode for the most part.. which is semi-manual, and semi-auto (you manually set the aperature, the camera automatically choosed the shutter speed).. but go to Manual for situations in which the meter on my camera is a suck and I want to fine tune the exposure.
I almost never.. and by almost I mean never.. use full auto-mode. I just don't like the quality of photos that come out of the camera's choices.
*EDIT* yes, I know I have a "higher" model, but from what I've read, the 5100 really isn't that far off the s7000 or s602z..
Message edited by author 2005-03-31 02:25:42.
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