Nightski wrote:
So here is one person who would stick up for me as I stubbornly stay in Manual mode, determined to learn to use it well.
I've been shooting for many years, and rarely use full manual (unless it's a group of images that I'll be stitching together for a panorama). Almost 100% of the time, I'm only concerned with the depth of field, and don't care about the shutter speed (always on a tripod), so I leave in aperture mode and let the camera do the rest. It's smarter than me anyway!
Use the exposure compensation to adjust.