Anti-Pontification Post #3
Sep 5, 2019 06:54:21 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
Najataagihe wrote:
Keep your camera on Auto-Everything as its standard stand-by configuration so you can get the grab shot.
Leave it that way, unless you have a good reason to change something.
Leave it that way, unless you have a good reason to change something.
When you let the camera make the decisions, you get what IT wants, not necessarily what YOU want.
Sep 5, 2019 07:31:02 #
chevman wrote:
I always seem to shoot in “M” mode including white balance manual white balance. and I don’t pre set anything! I set the aperture for the type of capture I want and the only automatic option I use is back button focus. that’s the way I have always shot since my Minolta 35mm SLR which did not have auto. Except you had to manually focus.🤓
I would only shoot in auto if I saw a monkey doing the macaraina.
Sep 5, 2019 07:31:14 #
billnikon wrote:
Not at all. Once I review its decisions, those decisions now belong to ME.When you let the camera make the decisions, you get what IT wants, not necessarily what YOU want.
Sep 5, 2019 07:34:18 #
Najataagihe wrote:
Keep your camera on Auto-Everything as its standard stand-by configuration so you can get the grab shot.
Leave it that way, unless you have a good reason to change something.
Leave it that way, unless you have a good reason to change something.
This would not work for me. When needed, I want to be able to override the camera's automatically selected exposure settings. I can't do that if the camera is set to full Auto.
In any of the "semi-auto" modes I can easily override the camera's auto exposure by using Exposure Compensation (EC).
Mostly I set the shooting mode to "M" (Manual) and have Auto ISO turned on. I set the shutter speed based on subject motion and/or camera steadiness considerations. I set the aperture to give me desired depth of field and/or based on image quality considerations.
With M + Auto ISO + EC I have total control with camera auto assist! 😊
Sep 5, 2019 07:35:38 #
Sep 5, 2019 08:01:18 #
Najataagihe wrote:
Keep your camera on Auto-Everything as its standard stand-by configuration so you can get the grab shot.
Leave it that way, unless you have a good reason to change something.
Leave it that way, unless you have a good reason to change something.
Sep 5, 2019 08:12:15 #
Retina
Loc: Near Charleston,SC
Mac wrote:
Nikon Df.
Is that your only digital camera other than perhaps the one in your phone?
Sep 5, 2019 08:41:30 #
Najataagihe wrote:
Keep your camera on Auto-Everything as its standard stand-by configuration so you can get the grab shot.
Leave it that way, unless you have a good reason to change something.
Leave it that way, unless you have a good reason to change something.
I used to do that with my Panasonic FZ18 and it worked well. My Nikon D5200 however will not take a decent picture in auto mode.
Sep 5, 2019 09:07:53 #
art pear wrote:
You may set a record number of replies with this statement.
I think you are correct.
Dennis
Sep 5, 2019 09:09:42 #
billnikon wrote:
When you let the camera make the decisions, you get what IT wants, not necessarily what YOU want.
With due respect how about you let us make our own decisions on what settings we will use to take photographs with out cameras. I have never used Auto nor even Program. So far so good. I feel left out. if only God had told us he had made a Camera Tsar.
Dennis
Sep 5, 2019 09:26:47 #
PGHphoto
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
Najataagihe wrote:
Keep your camera on Auto-Everything as its standard stand-by configuration so you can get the grab shot.
Leave it that way, unless you have a good reason to change something.
Leave it that way, unless you have a good reason to change something.
Great for snapshots but if doing that, wouldn't it be quicker and easier to just google an image and look at that ? Personally, I would rather have the shot I want and the way that I want it rather than taking some engineer's idea of what looks acceptable.
To each their own ...
Sep 5, 2019 09:36:14 #
PGHphoto wrote:
Great for snapshots but if doing that, wouldn't it be quicker and easier to just google an image and look at that ? Personally, I would rather have the shot I want and the way that I want it rather than taking some engineer's idea of what looks acceptable.
To each their own ...
To each their own ...
I set up my camera before I start, and then I review settings before each shot. The only engineer making final decisions is me.
Sep 5, 2019 09:38:32 #
Sep 5, 2019 09:56:33 #
davyboy
Loc: Anoka Mn.
PGHphoto wrote:
Great for snapshots but if doing that, wouldn't it be quicker and easier to just google an image and look at that ? Personally, I would rather have the shot I want and the way that I want it rather than taking some engineer's idea of what looks acceptable.
To each their own ...
To each their own ...
OH NO! Not snap shots!
Sep 5, 2019 10:12:02 #
PGHphoto
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
mbgegner wrote:
I would only shoot in auto if I saw a monkey doing the macaraina.
I thought you were supposed to shoot Monkeys doing Macaraina in "M" mode ??? Astronauts and Airplanes in "A" ?!?!?!?
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