A question???
Aug 14, 2017 20:53:54 #
This is almost as good as watching Jeopardy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73tGe3JE5IU
Sorry, couldn't help it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73tGe3JE5IU
Sorry, couldn't help it!
Aug 14, 2017 21:53:29 #
blue-ultra wrote:
The second one was shot with the same settings but in "M" mode.
In aperture priority the camera picks the shutter speed. In manual you select the shutter speed. I don't think you mentioned what the shutter was for either.
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Aug 14, 2017 22:07:17 #
blue-ultra wrote:
OK Here are two example of the issue. Both were shot with the same light in basically the same location. The first one (dark) was shot with Aperture mode at ISO 12800 at f2.8. The second one was shot with the same settings but in "M" mode. Both were PP in LR as I could not up load the RAW files as my IT speed is not very good here (DSL). I believe both shots were at 70mm. The third shot is at about 28mm. same settings.
Your problem (in your photo examples) is the shutter speed selected, #1 is 1/320, #s 2 & 3 are 1/100 so a lot more light is reaching the sensor. Time to learn about exposure and how you and your camera can control it.
Aug 15, 2017 00:36:57 #
Here's what I do. I put the D810 into Program mode and see what the exposure settings are with the Info button. I make a mental note, and set it up now in Manual using the camera meter suggestions from "P" as a starting point. Then I adjust exposure compensation to bring the pointer into the middle and shoot away.
Aug 15, 2017 05:34:02 #
Aug 15, 2017 05:39:32 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Shutter speed is not ISO. At ISO 12800 and f/2.8 if the shutter speed is 1/4000 then it's too dark. I estimate the right setting would be 1/500, f/2.8, ISO12800.
I will give that a try this Thursday. Thank you...
Aug 15, 2017 05:52:59 #
blue-ultra wrote:
I will give that a try this Thursday. Thank you...
That was my estimate but your EXIF data indicated that I was off. Please use the meter Thursday.
Aug 15, 2017 06:19:06 #
MT Shooter wrote:
How do you put a D810 in "automatic", it does not offer Auto mode?
I wondered about that. Maybe he meant auto ISO.
Aug 15, 2017 06:21:11 #
Aug 15, 2017 06:39:24 #
Jeffcs
Loc: Myrtle Beach South Carolina
Go back to basics camera looking at all of the white behind your subject camera looks for 18% grey
So I'll equate to an auto transmission
P-park
D-drive
N-night
R-race
So I'll equate to an auto transmission
P-park
D-drive
N-night
R-race
Aug 15, 2017 07:04:40 #
Aug 15, 2017 07:28:50 #
blue-ultra wrote:
OK Here are two example of the issue. Both were shot with the same light in basically the same location. The first one (dark) was shot with Aperture mode at ISO 12800 at f2.8. The second one was shot with the same settings but in "M" mode. Both were PP in LR as I could not up load the RAW files as my IT speed is not very good here (DSL). I believe both shots were at 70mm. The third shot is at about 28mm. same settings.
Here is the problem; you don't understand the basics of photography. You are confused about exposure modes. And you don't know how to set the camera to get a proper exposure. Please go read a basic photography book, take a basic photography class, do something to learn what you are doing.
Now to the facts. The following information is embedded in the image files (in what is called EXIF data), which can be seen in Lightroom or any other basic photo editor.
The first (dark) shot was taken in Manual "M" mode, not aperture mode. The exposure settings were 1/320s, f/2.8, ISO 12800, and the focal length was 62mm.
The second and third shots were taken in Aperture "A" mode, not manual mode. The exposure settings were f/2.8, ISO 12800, and a shutter speed of 1/100s was selected by the camera for each. Focal length for the second was 70mm, focal length for the third was 36mm.
There is a 1.5 stop difference between the exposures in M versus A; that is why the first shot is darker. If you use the camera meter to set shutter speed in M mode, then the exposures will be the same. But you would know that IF you went back and studied the basics of exposure.
Aug 15, 2017 07:51:36 #
DaveO wrote:
I sometimes use super auto on my 810. "S."
LOL. Thanks for giving me a great quote to use.
Aug 15, 2017 07:58:30 #
blue-ultra wrote:
"I have been using the D810 for almost three years. I always thought the "A" was for auto! I normally do all my settings in manual mode. I read the available light and adjust as needed. Plus I do shoot in RAW. But even in RAW you cannot save a underexposed photograph to a very good degree... When I get home this evening I will post the photos I just don't have them here at work.
Thank you for the comments. We can always learn something new everyday...
Thank you for the comments. We can always learn something new everyday...
For 3 years you have been using this camera and did not know what the "A" meant? Holy smokes!!! How in the world have any of your images turned out ok?? Geez. Do you realize that in 3 years of reading the instruction manual that came with your camera, you could have become an expert and been giving out advice yourself? Remind me never to accept a ride with you.....
Aug 15, 2017 08:48:42 #
I like this forum and the way that so many offer great advice. Very collaborative. I do find it difficult when someone is ridiculed for not knowing something that everyone assumes should be basic information. Maybe the OP has only shot snapshots, and this is his first foray into something more serious. I just hope this isn't a place where novices can't participate, and are afraid to ask what others might call a dumb question.
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