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Aperture Priority even in Manual Mode
Dec 23, 2017 12:27:29 #
Jim Bob wrote:
And Tonto escaped without bruises after he went on some fool errand for the masked man.
It seemed appropriate at the time.
Dec 24, 2017 05:42:39 #
Dec 24, 2017 05:53:56 #
DaveO wrote:
The Lone Ranger shot six bad guys with one bullet...
And it was a freezing Christmas night, and when the Lone Ranger went to celebrate with a shot of whiskey or few in the saloon he did'nt take Tonto in with him. It got colder and colder. Tonto struggled to keep warm.
Eventually the sheriff came in and said "What's wrong with you? Don't you know you left your injun running outside?"
With apologies to Native Americans / First Nation peoples everywhere!
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Dec 24, 2017 06:39:36 #
billnikon
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par4fore wrote:
Aperture setting in my mind has to be first choice... (show quote)
Good thought, I try to adjust a minimum of stuff. I shoot aperture priority, group auto focus, continuous auto focus, center weighted exposure, aperture at 6.3 on my Nikon 200-500 and keep my iso to a setting that I can shoot at a minimum of 1/1500 second cause I shoot wildlife in action. So, I simply keep my eye on the shutter speed and I will also play a little with exposure compensation when needed. I tend to do a quick and dirty EC of -.07 for a quickie of a bird in open air and and +.07 quickie if the duck is in the water. Then I may move up or down from there.
Dec 24, 2017 06:57:21 #
When dealing with moving subjects Shutter Speed will always come first because if you don't freeze motion all you will end up with is a blurry useless image. The exception is if you are purposely panning a train, race car or whatever. But in that case you usually end up with a few missed shots for every useable one.
Best,
Todd Ferguson
Best,
Todd Ferguson
Dec 24, 2017 06:59:01 #
And if you are setting ISO and using Aperture priority then using EC all you are doing is changing the shutter speed.
billnikon wrote:
Good thought, I try to adjust a minimum of stuff. ... (show quote)
Dec 24, 2017 07:58:59 #
par4fore wrote:
Aperture setting in my mind has to be first choice... (show quote)
I love Ap priority for landscape in general. As for birds in the sky, you have something against shutter priority? Sort of what it is there for.
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Dec 24, 2017 08:48:21 #
For these two I would also include exposure compensation because the camera meter will expose for the sky (I usually give it a +2):
Bird in sky, so-so light. Wide open= Higher shutter speed/ lower ISO
Bird in sky- good light. Wide open= Higher shutter speed/ lower ISO
Bird in sky, so-so light. Wide open= Higher shutter speed/ lower ISO
Bird in sky- good light. Wide open= Higher shutter speed/ lower ISO
par4fore wrote:
Aperture setting in my mind has to be first choice... (show quote)
Dec 24, 2017 08:51:52 #
par4fore wrote:
Aperture setting in my mind has to be first choice... (show quote)
Great! It works for you. I don't do it like that though.
Dec 24, 2017 08:56:10 #
Manual mode is just that. You make the decisions and adjustments to all critical settings. Anything else isn't manual mode. It's either Shutter priority or aperture priority. You're the photographer. It's up to you to decide what suits your situation and you do the thinking.
--Bob
--Bob
par4fore wrote:
Aperture setting in my mind has to be first choice... (show quote)
Dec 24, 2017 08:58:21 #
Fixed??? Are you sure about that?
--Bob
--Bob
CPR wrote:
Manual Mode means Fixed Aperture, Fixed Shutter Speed, Fixed ISO - all fixed Unless you choose to change on the fly. Like we all had to do before the advent of Auto.........
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Dec 24, 2017 09:46:21 #
Aperture priority is seldom my choice. It is good for landscape where depth of field is important and nothing is moving, but for all else I need the shutter to be fast enough to ensure that I don't get camera shake or motion blur. If it's out of focus or blurred it was a waste of a shutter click.
Bill
Bill
Dec 24, 2017 09:48:47 #
I understand what's the OP was saying. He said he chose the aperture first even when in manual. Although when I use auto I only use aperture priority and never S or P but back when I had a manual camera I did it in shutter priority. That is I would chose a shutter speed first and then set the aperture to get the meter to match. I guess I did it that way because it's only possible to set the meter to exact center with the aperture and not the shutter speed. Most aperture ring although has click stops they can be used in between stops. Not so with shutter speed (of course there were some camera where the shutter speed can be set in between).
Dec 24, 2017 09:55:40 #
Peterff wrote:
And it was a freezing Christmas night, and when the Lone Ranger went to celebrate with a shot of whiskey or few in the saloon he did'nt take Tonto in with him. It got colder and colder. Tonto struggled to keep warm.
Eventually the sheriff came in and said "What's wrong with you? Don't you know you left your injun running outside?"
With apologies to Native Americans / First Nation peoples everywhere!
Eventually the sheriff came in and said "What's wrong with you? Don't you know you left your injun running outside?"
With apologies to Native Americans / First Nation peoples everywhere!
OUCH!
Dec 24, 2017 09:56:53 #
rmalarz wrote:
Fixed??? Are you sure about that?
--Bob
--Bob
Yes, absolutely. "FIXED" simply means the camera will not change the setting based on what the lens sees.
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