This is a discussion on What Camera Mode Do You Use? within the General Photography/Film Discussion forums, part of the Photography/Film & Equipment category; Just a quick question to all the camera users out there, what camera mode do you tend to use more ...
Just a quick question to all the camera users out there, what camera mode do you tend to use more than the others?
For me personally i use the TV mode so i get shutter priority but am starting to more more towards the manual setting so i can control both the shutter and the aperture.
Hi Steve,Yes I use a weston master when I'm close up, and depending on what wildlife I intend to photograph I sometimes use an electronic flash meter, the flash meter would be used on a subject that can't fly or run off.
Depends on what lens and what I'm shooting. For most things bar landscapes I prefer a reasonably wide apeture as I like a narrow depth of field. For wildlife I'll generally have my camera set to f9 then work from there depending on how much time there is for composing shots, I work on the principle that I'm probably going to have little time for more than fireing off a couple of shots. Often set a touch of exposure compensation if the indended subject is likely to be in difficult lighting.
For me shutter speed is a secondary factor although I'm usually hand holding so it's possibly a daft way to work. If I get shots with a lovely sharp subject and blurry background then that does it for me. I have also found that depth of field seems relative to the size of the subject in the frame. At the same apeture a frame filler seems to produce a narrower depth of field than something a bit less big in the frame.
Linear Mode
