Anyone else going to that green auto setting?
Oct 26, 2019 12:32:17 #
After shooting manual setting for 50 years and then going to the auto aperture or shutter speed settings I was in the habit of setting auto when I had others take the picture. Most of the time pictures were well exposed and focused. So when taking record pictures or those I was asked to take a quick of shot I started to just set the camera on auto. All I have to do is compose. Of course I use Manual or Aperture setting so I have the control I need to get the shot I want when taking pictures of things that need the setting to get the look I want.
Perhaps I feel the freedom that I had when I was six with my 127 Ansco box camera. Every shot does not need to be a masterpiece! You may want to try it - you may like it. - Dave
Perhaps I feel the freedom that I had when I was six with my 127 Ansco box camera. Every shot does not need to be a masterpiece! You may want to try it - you may like it. - Dave
Oct 26, 2019 12:48:15 #
Only when I hand the camera off to someone to shoot because AUTO reverts Back Button Focusing to the shutter button so I don't have to try to explain it to anyone.
Oct 26, 2019 12:54:35 #
My problem with "A" is that it will make the flash pop up and fire if there is low light, ruining the photo. I use "P", and choose to use the flash sparingly at "-1" for fill.
Oct 26, 2019 13:11:50 #
Longshadow wrote:
Only when I hand the camera off to someone to shoot because AUTO reverts Back Button Focusing to the shutter button so I don't have to try to explain it to anyone.
Interesting. My D7500 does not revert to regular focus on full auto. Also, never, ever use full auto.
...Cam
Oct 26, 2019 13:21:55 #
ELNikkor wrote:
My problem with "A" is that it will make the flash pop up and fire if there is low light, ruining the photo. I use "P", and choose to use the flash sparingly at "-1" for fill.
After many years using A-S-M I have gone to using P as you have done. It still allows for some control of the settings A or S when needed while at the same time making it easier for me to take the picture. I also set the flash at -1 and use it sparingly. At 78 am not as quick and agile, mentally and physically, as I use to be and have found that P usually gives excellent results.
Oct 26, 2019 13:59:02 #
I use Auto when walking or in traveling for the quick "snapshot" of a subject which would be missed if taking time to compose.
Oct 26, 2019 14:18:17 #
wilsondl2 wrote:
After shooting manual setting for 50 years and the... (show quote)
Neither my Leica M10 or Nikon Df have a full Auto setting.
Oct 26, 2019 14:47:05 #
wilsondl2 wrote:
After shooting manual setting for 50 years and the... (show quote)
Camera Manuf's put a lot of money into exposure and focus systems. There are times to use manual and there are times to use the auto-modes. I say, let the scene and subject dictate which you use.
Oct 26, 2019 15:51:30 #
CamB wrote:
Interesting. My D7500 does not revert to regular focus on full auto. Also, never, ever use full auto.
...Cam
...Cam
Bummer, I understand Nikons don't do that.
(Mine is a Canon T1i)
Oct 26, 2019 15:58:50 #
I am going on a safari in February. I may switch to some form of semi automatic for quick shooting. I am taking with a 200 mm on a DX, probably shoot priority shutter at 1000?
Oct 26, 2019 17:29:54 #
I have been suggesting to beginners, for many years, that Auto is the best option until they have tried several 'tutorials' on using A and S. The beginner is assailed with information and photography is such a broad canvas that they often feel lost.....and can lose interest.
Those that insist on everyone learning Manual often miss the point: That not everyone wants to! Initially most beginners want the photographs they take to simply look like they saw it. (That looks pretty)! It takes time and 'reasons' to explore 'camera settings'....
I would suggest that Manual is an area that one should only use when you want a particular effect that the other program options will not obviously do. If you are that aware....chances are you have come a LONG way from being a beginner!
You paid for the camera.....use it how you wish.
have fun
Those that insist on everyone learning Manual often miss the point: That not everyone wants to! Initially most beginners want the photographs they take to simply look like they saw it. (That looks pretty)! It takes time and 'reasons' to explore 'camera settings'....
I would suggest that Manual is an area that one should only use when you want a particular effect that the other program options will not obviously do. If you are that aware....chances are you have come a LONG way from being a beginner!
You paid for the camera.....use it how you wish.
have fun
Oct 26, 2019 18:54:04 #
Auto? Never! Too much chance that if I did use it it would validate my suspicion that my camera knows more about photography then I do! 
Oct 26, 2019 19:33:40 #
LFingar wrote:
Auto? Never! Too much chance that if I did use it it would validate my suspicion that my camera knows more about photography then I do!
Haha. When it starts saying up, down, left, right, zoom in, zoom out for composition, I may begin to worry.
(My phone does for panos, but that's just a connecting match.)
Oct 26, 2019 20:08:05 #
larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
ELNikkor wrote:
My problem with "A" is that it will make the flash pop up and fire if there is low light, ruining the photo. I use "P", and choose to use the flash sparingly at "-1" for fill.
<P>rogram mode on pro-level Nikons (D200, D300, D300s, D810) does not automatically invoke flash. Newer pro level bodies do not have pop up flash at all. So for these cameras, this is not, and has not ever been, an issue. I know that for the D40, D40x, and later consumer models, it was and likely still is a potential issue.
Further, all models that I have owned allowed simple override of Program mode exposure suggestions by turning the command and sub command wheels to change aperture or shutter speed while preserving proper exposure. I find selection of the proper metering mode (Spot, Center Weighted, Matrix, Highlight Weighted) to be much more important to proper exposure than whether I choose Manual or any of the automatic operating modes. And Exposure Compensation is immediately available in any mode.
Oct 26, 2019 21:23:50 #
There are already a variety of opinions. My Panasonic cameras have "P", "iA" and "iA+". I frequently use the "iA" because it produces results quickly. And, sometimes with extraordinary results.
I was doing all the appropriate manual tripod things for an eclipse of the moon a few months ago. As a last minute lark, I switched to iA and hand held a shot. The camera felt a need to take multiple exposures and merge them. The result was very good.
To stay centered on A, S and M, is narrow minded thinking when you've paid for tools beyond that.
(When this thread is over, we can start one on using Auto adjustments to RAW in programs like Lightroom.)
I was doing all the appropriate manual tripod things for an eclipse of the moon a few months ago. As a last minute lark, I switched to iA and hand held a shot. The camera felt a need to take multiple exposures and merge them. The result was very good.
To stay centered on A, S and M, is narrow minded thinking when you've paid for tools beyond that.
(When this thread is over, we can start one on using Auto adjustments to RAW in programs like Lightroom.)
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