Be honest, how often do you use iA (or equiv.) and why?

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I use it for some street shooting and if I'm taking candids at a party or other venue with varying conditions.

FYI iA is Lumix fully auto with intelligent scene recognition. Eg Landscape macro portrait, night handheld etc.
 
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Never, because I don't know what it is :D

I like to keep things simple and understandable so it's aperture or manual for me.
 
woof woof said:
Never, because I don't know what it is :D

I like to keep things simple and understandable so it's aperture or manual for me.
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Sorry I wrongly assumed. Its edited. :D
 
Cockney said:
Sorry I wrongly assumed. Its edited. :D
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I thought it was a setting on a camera? I thought it was like Auto but cleverer?

If it is I don't use it or ordinary Auto because I've never really looked into them and how they work, Simples is best for me :D
 
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woof woof said:
I thought it was a setting on a camera? I thought it was like Auto but cleverer?

If it is I don't use it or ordinary Auto because I've never really looked into them and how they work, Simples is best for me :D
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Its a Lumix camera. You have to join some dots yourself. :ROFLMAO:
 
I've just had a look at my GX80 and it hasn't got it but I'm sure I've seen it on a camera I have or have had. Like I said, it's nice and simple aperture and manual for me :D
 
Nope never, tend to use manual becuase i find it easier to acheive what I want but will use a priority mode when the occasion arrises
 
Don't have it, wouldn't use it. Great for point and shoot and grabbing that fleeting image perhaps, but for my instant use I just set aperture priority, f8, ISO 400, auto-focus and in general I'll get a usable picture whatever the [non-extreme] environment; if it needs anything else I use On1 to perk it up a bit.

I used to have (in my film days) a Nikon FM2n. The meter consisted of three LEDs -- red for over-exposed, green for correctly exposed and another red for under-exposed, with manual focussing and the film speed was set at purchase and was usually Ilford HP5. I love my digital stuff but sometimes I hanker after the innocent days of manual everything and while I could still do it that way, I could also walk four miles into town but instead I take the car 'cos it's just easier. :(
 
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Cockney said:
I use it for some street shooting and if I'm taking candids at a party or other venue with varying conditions.

FYI iA is Lumix fully auto with intelligent scene recognition. Eg Landscape macro portrait, night handheld etc.
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I use S mode for street, at 1/800 usually, ISO at 200.

If I want to get FG and BG people in focus, I up the f/. to double figures which might mean using M mode
 
Closest I get is P and I usually wander away from the suggested settings in that.
 
Honestly? Yes I admit I've used it in the last month on a couple of Lumix LX compacts which I've taken possession of, LX3 and LX7.

I've used it to get comparisons with what results I get when dialling in in A, S or M modes: it's been a bit of a cheat method to see what settings the camera deems appropriate for the circumstances. Oh I know I should simply "think DSLR" and dial in what would be my go-to settings but somehow I'm making it hard for myself and then trying to reduce the hardness!

The other time I might use it is for candids shot with the camera a long way away from my face.

Mustn't forget the mobile phone camera. Plenty of opportunity to dial in settings but it's such a laborious process (the travails of 21st century life... ) that the camera stays on auto.

To the op I'd say use it if it works for you.
 
I've just tried iA on my GX80. No control over focus point, ISO, ExpComp ...

But when I push ExpComp I get adjustment for F & SS ... a bit like P mode.

Most confusing.
 
Have it but don't use it (Lumix G9). Av or manual for me - I like to know what the camera's going to do before it does it, not after.
 
tikkathreebarrel said:
Mustn't forget the mobile phone camera. Plenty of opportunity to dial in settings but it's such a laborious process (the travails of 21st century life... ) that the camera stays on auto.
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My phone camera also has the capacity to have all the settings changed but as you say, it is fiddly and largely pointless since by the time one has frigged about with it, the subject has probably gone for a coffee. TBH, with my phone cameras I expend most of my efforts on trying not to drop it! :eek:
 
I think my fear of auto settings dates back to my early digital days with Canon DSLR's as when I set them to auto they used to choose setting I never would. I suppose camera auto modes have got better since then as that was in my Canon 300D days.
 
My wife has a Panasonic TZ9 which stays on iA. I've also used it a lot and I'm quite happy with the results on this setting, with the caveat that I'm not very interested in photography as an art form, or anything other than as a means of capturing memories of people, places and things that I might want to write about. That said, I do expect the results to be sharp, properly exposed and with decent colour reproduction. The little camera meets my needs.

FWIW, my photography goes back to childhood. I had a couple of Brownie 127 cameras, then my father came up with an old Kokak 66 (120 bellows camera) he found somewhere. OMG. I was about 10, knew nothing about exposure or focus and this was out of my league. Thanks to the owner of our local camera store who took time to explain the rudiments of film speed, the exposure triangle and focussing, followed by processing my own films and contact printing the negatives. It was a good grounding ...

I do have a Canon 30D and it's still a good camera but I prefer something small and light now.
 
My main camera is a Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 and I use iA pretty much all the time.

I understand how to override it and put in manual settings to get different depths of field, etc. The majority of my photography is in the New Forest; e.g. landscapes, insects, ponies. So for the type of photographs I take I want to have sharp focus from foreground to background, and iA gives me that.

Plus, I just want to quickly take my photographs without the extra time to set it manually for different effects.

This setting works ideal for me, so I am quite happy to use it :D
 
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Mostly because I take a lot of snap street shops I use P but given the time will probably do some manual adjustments.
 
Manual only for me- I like to tell the camera what I want and not the other way around :)
 
I've tried it out of interest and am pretty impressed by how clever it is at recognizing certain scenes but I never use it generally. Maybe I'll try it a little more !
 
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