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Shaun Smith

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Hi all,

Ive just been doing some playing with my camera and started wondering how many snappers out there let their cam do the work for them (or most of) and how many peeps do the lot themselves??

Just curious thats all;)
 
No point having an axe and chopping down the tree with your teeth. If your camera can do it, let it (not saying you shouldn't take a nibble at a tree trunk now and then, or set the camera on manual if you so desire :) )
 
Ive used Aperture priority about 5 or 6 times on my 30D but use manual 99% of the time.
 
Hi Janice,

Since I've got the M8, I've been doing all the work. I'm using it on manual. It's made me think of new strategies for taking photographs - the DSLR made me soooo lazy!

Trouble is, since mid august, my arthritis and back have been so bad, I've been more or less confined to the house. It's so frustrating:bang:

My consultant has started me on a new drug regime, so hopefully, in a week or so, I'll be able to drive again.
 
I shoot in AV pretty much all the time, as I cant see the plus point of going full manual, I can still set the exposure compensation etc so just saves me time!
 
Pretty much manual shooting here for macro and Av, M and P for most other things. Shutter priority for sports and fast action.
 
M whenever the light is fairly constant and AV if it's likely to change at short notice.
 
can someone tell me where the auto button on my fm2n is please ? oh i think i must do it all in manwell then , hard for me to cheat really .
 
I use Av mode about 90% of the time then the other 10% is about 50:50 between shutter priority and manual with the situation depicting which.
 
Aperture priority all the time. I control the depth of field, and then the camera picks the shutter speed I would've picked anyway in order to expose correctly. Really don't see the benefit of slowing things down just to achieve the same results (and probably worse a lot of the time).
 
Manual...Read it once or twice but I usually leave it in the box. ;)
 
robmiller said:
Aperture priority all the time. I control the depth of field, and then the camera picks the shutter speed I would've picked anyway in order to expose correctly. Really don't see the benefit of slowing things down just to achieve the same results (and probably worse a lot of the time).
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blinkerz said:
I use AV 90% of the time, i only use manual for night photography for the bulb setting..
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Wohooo thought I was going to be the only one for a while then ;)
 
Manual about 80% of the time and then jump around the others according to the situation. Its no good having a one off photo op and fumbling around trying to sort out M when you can whack it auto and take a few shots.
 
Manual or A-p depending on what mood I'm in.

Manual for work and A-p for everything else generally. Probably cos I'm using a lot of flash for work and It's a pita trying to get the exposure balanced in any auto mode.
 
I use most of the settings provided, I don’t see the point of having all these tools and not using them, back in the bad old days you had no option there was only manual then AP then SP and then AF, WOW!!. If you’ve got it use it I say.
 
I usually shoot in Av and twiddle the exposure as required (nice big twirly knob on the back of the 20D :) )

Occasionally go for Tv, but this is only when I want a minimum shutter speed.

Full manual. I confess I hardly ever use.
 
Av, Tv, or Manual, depending on the mood (Even Auto when Im taking snapshots of the family etc).

I don't see why not. We drive automatic cars, even manuals with syncromesh in the gearboxes ;)
 
As donutagain I'm not very sure where the auto button is on my RB67 =D

When I'm using 35mm type cameras it's probably about 50% fully manual, 30% Aperture priority, 20% shutter priority.

For those that say they don't see any point in shooting fully manual, there's a big difference between using the in-camera meter & just going with whatever it suggests in the hope of getting what you're after. Exposure compensation can be useful, but still not as flexible as fully manual - in any automatic mode you're constantly metering and adjusting for the light (which yes, can be useful), but when you treat the in-camera meter as a seperate entity you're going "OK, I want a reading from this(these) part of the shot, I know how a reflective meter might skew what I'm after, and so I'll adjust accordingly".
I'm not trying to say there's anything wrong with using any automatic or semi-automatic metering modes, just that there can be a great deal right with going fully manual.

While we're at it, who focuses manually? Ever? I will use manual focus if the finder is large & bright enough (which generally means I'll focus manually if I'm shooting film) & if I have enough time to do as such (although in some conditions it can be considerably faster to track manually). Anyway, where I was going with that is that having 80-gazillion hyper accurate AF points is all very fine and well, but it's still not as versatile as just being able to go "I want to focus on the tip of that pencil o'er in the upper right of my image". Even if you have an AF point which covers exactly the tip of said pencil, you still have to naff about selecting it. By which point you've probably focussed manually.
 
Aperture priority most of the time for me. I switch to manual if I'm taking a set for stitching into a panorama or if I think the shutter speed in Av is not going to expose properly.

In low light or for macro I usually go for manual focus.
 
I think I could do with trying manual more, methinks, both in exposure and focus.
Would help me understand the process more, and make me sit back and think, stop me getting bored with a shot and moving on.
 
Usually left in A, then switch to S or M depending on what I'm doing or level of bothered.

Have never even had my DSLR in the Panic position.
 
Just because someone can drive a manual doesn't mean they can do it properly :lol:
 
I use AV and adjust the exposure if required unless I'm using studio lights when I use Manual. As for focusing I use AF unless I'm doing macro work or shooting at apertures wider than f/2 in low(er) light.
 
I use Av for some sports, Tv for some sports and manual in the studio. Will admit to never having used Auto.
 
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