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Photos, what were you thinking of?

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44 votes were received.

Green! Green Baby, Green.	1		2%
P Program	14		32%
A Aperture Priority	10		23%
Tv Shutter Priority	2		5%
M Manual	12		27%
Huh?	5		11%

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How do you shoot the most?
of course we change from one mode to another, but how do you find yourself shooting most pictures?

With my old Konica SLRs I shot shutter priority but of course you could get any aperture by adjusting the speed. Now with different point and shoot (Olympus, Lumix) I let the camera do the thinking most of the time.

depends what I'm shooting. If I'm covering a show, I usually set it to Aperture Priority. Then I may experiment a bit...

Isosceles

f/8 and be there.

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Jamie Dresser
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Right handed using my right eye on the scope with a rifle. I use the laser most of the time to aim the pistol.

Fred

I picked aperture priority, but I actually shoot manual about the same amount of time. This is when I'm shooting film. With a cheap p&s digital camera, I just shoot in programmed mode since the f stop has no real practical affect on depth of field with the crazy short lenses on these cameras.

I set the camera to M-mode (not manual). I set the f-stop and shutter to my desire. I then let the camera decide the ISO by using the auto-ISO feature. I keep watch on the meter to determine if my shutter speeds are too fast for the light.

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All I ever really needed to know, I learned from watching Star Trek.

Back when I was using my classic screw-mount Leicas (I have two, one IIf and one IIc), I did everything manually, using a light meter. Nowadays, with my little Canon A540 I just lazily leave it on Auto and most of the time that's fine. I don't even know what priority it's using.

But I am getting a hankering to get an SLR and start dredging up what I used to know about camera functions. So maybe 'manual' is in my future. . .

/Mr Lynn

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On the river in Saxonville.

We need another poll on "What format do you save in"+-. Raw, JPEG, etc.

The little "A" for "Auto"...

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Right handed, iron sights, bullseye style.

Would you believe a hand held light meter with grey card? 25% that way, 50% manual with in-camera meter/manual focus and the other 25% priority or auto. I learned my trade well before the advent of auto exposure and auto focus, old habits die hard.

.....from the hip.....??

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I reject your reality and substitute my own!

With ammo. It's been a while, but my rifle is oiled and ready.

Automagical because them computerized gollywog gimcracks are too confusalating for me.

undetected, the Camp Peary method

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At coyotes free hand or find something to lean on. Red Diggers
and rockchucks with a bipod .

I prefer high calibre weapons and this vehicle only stops for reloading

auto

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"There are only two mantras yum and yuk mine is yum "
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"There is a fine line between a rut and a groove"
G.D. Kittredge III

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Mostly M but quite a bit P..

in this digi world I've found it's more about CENTER WEIGHTED metering for useful, versatile exposures..film days..different story.

But, mostly M in Center Weighted metering

There won't be a standard recipe for everyone here.

Depends on the camera often. Back when I had a fast lens I enjoyed aperture priority usually. With a slow lens it's often whatever-you-can-get for exposure, unless you want to use on-camera flash and truly ruin the image.

Cheap camera are usually set at full auto, because moving it to a manual setting might be rife with more compromises and heartache.

My camera does OK with jpegs but I tend to shoot RAW, for more choices afterwards and a touch better dynamic range. But if I were shooting fast-moving subjects and/or needed more shots, it'd either have to be jpegs or miss entirely.

When taking pictures of guitars for my brochures, I use my best lens, which is all manual, on my Nikon D60. So those are all manual, in RAW at 100 ISO on a hefty tripod.

On outings with the family, we usually take my trusty Nikon S10 point and shoot. The only adjustments it allows are ISO and exp compensation. I just leave it on all auto, and it does pretty well, jpegs only.

It depends upon the situation.

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Generally manual but also quite a bit of aperture priority. Tv as needed but rarely.

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With a slow lens it's often whatever-you-can-get for exposure, unless you want to use on-camera flash and truly ruin the image.

Using bounce flash with TTL flash metering can give okay results.

...but am very good with strong-h;and/off-hand in close quarters.

Also strong-hand from the ribcage for very close quarters. Tried it weak-hand, nearly caught some hot brass.

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You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

Generally in "P" mode on my Pentax K20D. Most common exposure adjustment is some EV compensation, usually to underexpose a bit. Or, I'll leave it in P and use either the front or back wheel to fix the aperture or shutter speed to what I want.

Pentax has a "program line" in the menu that allows you to choose to make the camera favor greatest depth of field, fastest available shutter, or the sharpest aperture (MTF) for whatever Pentax lens you're using, within a proper exposure. I usually use MTF.

Otherwise, AV or M.

My ME Super is either full manual or Aperture Priority.

And I try as hard as I can to compose in-camera, as I still feel cropping to fix a composition is a little bit of a cheat (a holdover from shooting slides). I also very seldom shoot more than two or three frames of any one thing.

Oh yeah: RAW, always.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/24/2011 05:19PM by Uncle Wig.