The Myth and Reality of Shooting in Manual Mode
Jun 22, 2018 21:16:41 #
Interesting article from the Digital Photography School. Enjoy.
https://digital-photography-school.com/myth-reality-shooting-manual-mode/
https://digital-photography-school.com/myth-reality-shooting-manual-mode/
Jun 22, 2018 21:31:34 #
Jun 22, 2018 21:33:31 #
How manual is fully manual? Do you use a handheld light meter? Do you look at what the camera meter is telling you? or do you put your finger in the air and decide on an f stop, shutter speed and ISO? That would be fully manual.
Jun 22, 2018 21:45:32 #
PhotoKurtz wrote:
How manual is fully manual? Do you use a handheld light meter? Do you look at what the camera meter is telling you? or do you put your finger in the air and decide on an f stop, shutter speed and ISO? That would be fully manual.
When I shoot in “fully manual,” I set everything myself. It helps that I can look at a shot and immediately adjust, but no light meter or auto anything.
Jun 22, 2018 21:51:59 #
Jun 22, 2018 21:59:43 #
I shoot in manual very often but because I am not a pro. I shoot manual actually because in many situations it's simpler than using any other modes.
Jun 22, 2018 22:52:39 #
PhotoKurtz wrote:
Or do you put your finger in the air and decide on an f stop, shutter speed and ISO?
Or do you put your finger in the air and decide on an f stop, shutter speed and ISO?
Do people actually do that???
SS
Jun 22, 2018 23:45:57 #
To me, shooting manual has nothing to do with metering. It means setting your own aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. How you arrive at the total exposure could be a hand meter, which I use in the studio, the in-camera meter, with which you decide exactly where to take a meter reading you want, or it could be an educated guess. I shoot manual in the studio, or any time I have a static subject and time to consider the proper settings. When I need to shoot quickly, or conditions are changing, I shoot one of the auto modes.
Jun 24, 2018 15:24:33 #
enough of this manual mode crap. what i'm reading here is meter assisted shooting.now my aunt shot in manual. her 1938 Kodak folding camera had no meters , neither did she. she used the settings for lighting conditions,shooing position, and subject placement as printed in the user instuctions. now that's manual shooting.
Jun 24, 2018 17:38:18 #
bull drink water wrote:
enough of this manual mode crap. what i'm reading here is meter assisted shooting.now my aunt shot in manual. her 1938 Kodak folding camera had no meters , neither did she. she used the settings for lighting conditions,shooing position, and subject placement as printed in the user instuctions. now that's manual shooting.
If you use a meter to determine exposure, and you do it in an educated way concerning where you take your reading, or do multiple readings, then you are metering manually, rather than have the camera decide on one of variables. That counts as manual to me.
Jul 1, 2018 13:36:22 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
If you use a meter to determine exposure, and you do it in an educated way concerning where you take your reading, or do multiple readings, then you are metering manually, rather than have the camera decide on one of variables. That counts as manual to me.
the key word was metering, i'm talking "no meter".
Jul 1, 2018 19:35:27 #
bull drink water wrote:
the key word was metering, i'm talking "no meter".
So in your view, Ansel Adams wasn't a manual shooter. He used a meter. I started serious photography in the late '60s. 35mm cameras were all manual, but they already had meters. I could never see the sense of guessing exposure when you have a tool to measure the light, and to me, that's still manual.
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