Who uses auto iso and why

do you use auto iso

  • yes

    Votes: 111 56.6%

  • no

    Votes: 85 43.4%
  • Total voters
    196
scottthehat said:
nikon auto iso is one of the best on the market and i use it 99% the good thing with it is in manual mode is you can set the apature and shutter and let the camera do the iso and you still have exposure compensation,, would you use manual iso for everything like weddings and sport.
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Nearly as good as TAV then? ;) (you but not many others will know whay I mean ... lol)
 
Use it all the time (when I am not shooting on tripod) in Aperture priority mode - it helps me to maintain the shutter speed at a certain minimum regardless of ISO. That really helps to shoot in variety of eventualities and respond quick to events that happen by just changing the aperture - especially good for taking shots of ever moving kids ;-)
 
Pookeyhead said:
Half the time I shoot I don't even use the camera's meter, let alone it's auto ISO feature. Sports I can see why because half the time, if not more, you don't even want to take your eye from the viewfinder, but weddings? I'd say it's hardly essential.
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fare enough, the way i look at it is i have cameras and i use the features that offer something to me know auto iso does that and gives me time to think of photos to be taken instead.
 
hahaha, Pookey enters the conversation.

everyone came from a different background. many here came from days when camera are able to meter correctly. Pookey came from days before metering, so it's no surprise he prefers to meter with his own eyes.

each to their own.
 
Blythman said:
Nearly as good as TAV then? ;) (you but not many others will know whay I mean ... lol)
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Hi Alan,

What's the difference in implementation between Pentax TAv mode and Nikon's auto-iso?
 
Rapscallion said:
Hi Alan,

What's the difference in implementation between Pentax TAv mode and Nikon's auto-iso?
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In use I think there's little if any difference actually Phil. I do think that having a dial setting for it just like Tv and Av does lead to more people using it. A lot of people are a bit scared to venture into the world of manual exposure, while they'll happily use other designated modes available on the camers.

Off topic - the one I don't get on my Pentax is Sv :thinking:
 
wuyanxu said:
hahaha, Pookey enters the conversation.

everyone came from a different background. many here came from days when camera are able to meter correctly. Pookey came from days before metering, so it's no surprise he prefers to meter with his own eyes.

each to their own.
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You git! I'll remember that! :)
 
Pookeyhead said:
That's my problem with it. If I turn it off the results are fine 10/10. Why let the camera decide to ruin 1/10 of your shots?
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I completely agree with you pookeyhead. What I probably meant to say is that if you are simply out and about with your camera taking snapshots then the auto ISO will work fine.

Obviously if you are out photographing something of importance i.e. weddings then you want to be in total control of what your camera's doing. There are times when auto ISO can be very useful like motorsport / action photography when you need to keep an eye on the subject.
 
I haven't read the thread, but here's my 2 cents....

Mostly I prefer full manual exposure, because mostly for my chosen shooting situations the light is fairly constant or changes only gradually. For times when the light is going to be rapidly changing I still want to choose my preferred shutter speed and aperture, because there are creative and technical considerations addressed by both those controls, but the one variable I can be relatively indifferent to is the ISO, and for such times I will happily let the ISO float and if time is of the essence I may was well let the camera pick it for me.

One such example was at a TP meetup in London for the Thames Festival. I was shooting street candids and the lighting upon the subject/scene varied between full front lit sunshine to backlit sunshine to full shade under trees. I needed to be able to fire quickly if I saw something interesting before me and had no time to be faffing about metering and making adjustments for myself. I wanted the aperture locked at f/2.8 for subject isolation with my 70-200 and the shutter speed no slower than 1/250 in order to control camera shake and subject blur. Shooting with a 5D3 it just made sense to let the camera pick the ISO for me, which would at least get me close to "correct" and allow me to get the shot rather than miss it completely. At times during the day I did switch to full manual when it made more sense to do so.

In the past I have been a stickler for manual ISO selection only, because I wanted to avoid the intermediate ISOs within the camera, but to be honest life is too short to be so super-anal about these things when there are more important matters to be addressed, such as getting the shot before it vanishes.
 
Like others do not use it all the time but find it usefull, when photographing nature as want to take at best ISO for the light conditions.
 
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