A rule of thumb
May 28, 2019 09:09:11 #
gvarner
Loc: Central Oregon Coast
BEFORE you go out, make sure your camera settings are where you want them to be, all the settings that can be made by accidentally turning dials and pushing buttons. Thumbs and fingers can move things without us even knowing it, or you forgot to put a setting back after making a change on a shot. Happens to me all the time so I post this reminder for myself.
May 28, 2019 09:12:25 #
May 28, 2019 09:17:01 #
PaulBrit
Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon
That’s a great tip. These modern cameras have a myriad of settings, that is good, but a range of various options that is a potential nightmare especially if one has trouble learning what does what! The Nikon 750 which is my camera is precisely a good example!
May 28, 2019 09:29:12 #
AMEN! And during shooting too... in manual with a Nikon D500... “How in the world did that get turned to that setting?”
May 28, 2019 09:46:53 #
Great advice. I always check my first few shots to be sure I'm getting what I want.
May 28, 2019 09:48:28 #
May 28, 2019 10:04:05 #
My favorite example is the time I was shooting in manual mode, using studio flashes, also in manual mode, and scratching my head wondering why every shot was a different exposure. Auto-bracketing was turned on.
May 28, 2019 10:33:30 #
Most cameras have presets now. On my Canon you get c1, c2, c3. For c1 I set the everything the way i like it for outdoor walking around, then register the setting in c1, so a twist of the dial to c1 and it remembers everything and puts it back where I wanted it. For c2 I set for indoor no flash, including flicker detection. C3 is manual starting at base ISO, f5.6, 1/125.
May 28, 2019 11:11:17 #
May 28, 2019 11:19:08 #
Excellent advice! I try to practice that because I haEA messed up a few times. Exposure compensation and ISO are one I tend to forget to reset.
May 28, 2019 12:14:05 #
gvarner wrote:
BEFORE you go out, make sure your camera settings are where you want them to be, all the settings that can be made by accidentally turning dials and pushing buttons. Thumbs and fingers can move things without us even knowing it, or you forgot to put a setting back after making a change on a shot. Happens to me all the time so I post this reminder for myself.
May 29, 2019 06:26:28 #
gvarner wrote:
BEFORE you go out, make sure your camera settings are where you want them to be, all the settings that can be made by accidentally turning dials and pushing buttons. Thumbs and fingers can move things without us even knowing it, or you forgot to put a setting back after making a change on a shot. Happens to me all the time so I post this reminder for myself.
May 29, 2019 06:35:56 #
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