Do you ever shoot in manual and forget to look at settings while adjusting for exposure? (Page 4): wait till you get to 83...

philo Loc: philo, ca

aellman wrote:

At age 72, I forget EVERYTHING. >Alan

wait till you get to 83

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

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CHG_CANON wrote:

I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong ....

djlouden Loc: Ocala, Florida

aellman wrote:

At age 72, I forget EVERYTHING. >Alan

philo wrote:

wait till you get to 83

Oh no... 70 is just at my door calling... is this what I have to look forward too?????

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khorinek

Jack 13088 wrote:

Of course, I have. Also, an all time favorite in s... (show quote)

Canon uses three presets. On the mode dial there is a C1, C2 and C3. I use these for different shooting environments. C1 for outdoor bright sunlight shooting set at 1/125, F/16 and ISO 100. C2 is indoor without flash, 1/125, Shutter priority Aperture and ISO float. C2 is for shooting with flash indoors, 1/125 shutter priority, ISO 1600. If I am shooting any other situations, I go to Manual or Shutter priority and change the Aperture and ISO as needed.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

khorinek wrote:

Canon uses three presets. On the mode dial there is a C1, C2 and C3. I use these for different shooting environments. C1 for outdoor bright sunlight shooting set at 1/125, F/16 and ISO 100. C2 is indoor without flash, 1/125, Shutter priority Aperture and ISO float. C2 is for shooting with flash indoors, 1/125 shutter priority, ISO 1600. If I am shooting any other situations, I go to Manual or Shutter priority and change the Aperture and ISO as needed.

OP is asking about a NIKON camera.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

JD750 wrote:

OP is asking about a NIKON camera.

So, does Nikon provide similar functionality?

xt2 Loc: British Columbia, Canada

home brewer wrote:

I am review photos I shot using a D500 and a zoom ... (show quote)

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AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

JD750 wrote:

OP is asking about a NIKON camera.

On Nikon they are called “user settings”. Very convenient.

Andy

ialvarez50

home brewer wrote:

I am review photos I shot using a D500 and a zoom ... (show quote)

The best thing you can do is to setup an ISO to no more than 400. Second use your lens fully open because indoor there is not much light. Third control your exposure by changing the shutter speed only. If the shutter is long (1-1/15) of a second, use some support. This way of shutting indoors is the best way. If you cannot get sharp photos, you need to practice a lot more.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Dear Home Brewer: I assume you're not familiar with "chimping" During the glory days of film photography we had more control over the photos and couldn't blame the camera for our shortcomings. My advice is to learn to chimp occasionally and to set the camera to
-GASP!- Auto. So to salvage your past work try my suggestion. Don't format the memory card! First download the museum photos to a file on your computer. (You will eventually delete this file). Piece through this file and move photos worth saving go a second file. These photos (which are significantly fewer) can be reworked to ones worth saving. Use the most available software to reduce the noise and crop the photos tighter. Save these to a final file. Do not try to salvage everything, you really can't. You will have a few good captures worth posting here. Good Luck! Happy Chimping

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

ialvarez50 wrote:

The best thing you can do is to setup an ISO to no more than 400. Second use your lens fully open because indoor there is not much light. Third control your exposure by changing the shutter speed only. If the shutter is long (1-1/15) of a second, use some support. This way of shutting indoors is the best way. If you cannot get sharp photos, you need to practice a lot more.

Do you have any familiarity with the D500?? It is supposed to be good at high ISO values.

I used my Pentax K-30 as high as ISO=800; I use my Pentax KP as high as ISO=3200 without getting noticeable noise.
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billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

rehess wrote:

Do you have any familiarity with the D500?? It is supposed to be good at high ISO values.

I used my Pentax K-30 as high as ISO=800; I use my Pentax KP as high as ISO=3200 without getting noticeable noise.

The D500 is very good at higher ISO's. The expeed 5 processor which is very good in processing high ISO images. Early in the morning I have to shoot at 6400 commonly to get the shutter speed high enough to handle a bird in flight. Once I used 12800 with success.
I lower my ISO as soon as I can as the sun rises in the East, but if I need speed, I have it.

CamB Loc: Juneau, Alaska

ialvarez50 wrote:

The best thing you can do is to setup an ISO to no more than 400. Second use your lens fully open because indoor there is not much light. Third control your exposure by changing the shutter speed only. If the shutter is long (1-1/15) of a second, use some support. This way of shutting indoors is the best way. If you cannot get sharp photos, you need to practice a lot more.

Any modern camera can go way beyond ISO400. ISO400 won't give you much in dimly lit museums or lots of other places. When I go inside, pretty much anywhere, I start at 1600, one of my favorite ISO's.
...Cam

PierreD

Set your camera to a maximum ISO value so that shots are never taken above this value. Then adjust shutter speed and f stop depending on the situation.

artpulis

On my d500 I shoot in manual, but with auto ISO with limits. Recently I changed a custom setting to show ISO in my exposure settings on the top of the camera. That helped me remember to check the ISO more often.