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Never Used DSLR Before & Going On Balloon Trip Tomorrow, Any Help?
- Thread starter Saner
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Brown.
Take the 18-55 and the 75-300......
Good advice!
What I was thinking, any particular settings I should use? Have only had a compact deigital camera before.
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LY 182 FF CUPPED
If you are not happy with manual.
Then stick it on Shutter Priority and set the shutter above 250 sec.
Iso around 200/400.
At least most stuff will come out sharp , tomorrow should be bright enough.
Just watch out for exposures of stuff in the sky.....things might get under exposed if you meter from the sky itself.
Then stick it on Shutter Priority and set the shutter above 250 sec.
Iso around 200/400.
At least most stuff will come out sharp , tomorrow should be bright enough.
Just watch out for exposures of stuff in the sky.....things might get under exposed if you meter from the sky itself.
Clio Cup 172, Mk2 Escort
above 250 sec what you shooting a f1 car. 1st time out auto mode will be plenty, shutter priority only needed when shooting moving objects i.e. motorsport events and even then you dont need a shutter above 1/320 sec.
Auto will adjust ISO but if it a nice clear day and you playing with the shutter speed on the TV setting keep it to ISO 100 other tip is to up the manual exposure by 1 notch.
Any question pm me Ive had a 350 a few years ago now got a 40d, 1dmk2 and 1dmk3
Auto will adjust ISO but if it a nice clear day and you playing with the shutter speed on the TV setting keep it to ISO 100 other tip is to up the manual exposure by 1 notch.
Any question pm me Ive had a 350 a few years ago now got a 40d, 1dmk2 and 1dmk3
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Brown.
expensive camera dont make good photographers....... if i was you saner the only advice you should take should come from planetx.
LY 182 FF CUPPED
the words DSLR = AUTO....should never ever mix.....!!!
The moment you stick things in Auto...they have a mind of there own.
NO camera not even A mkll or D3 would cope with say a balloon back lit in the sky in P mode...unless you know what you are doing.
I said shutter priority + 250th/sec is because the guy is noob...and noobs on DSLR tend to get a lot of camera shake when starting out.
i advised this so he can at least enjoy his day out with the camera knowing 95% success hit rate.
Give him more chance to concentrate on composition etc.
He also owns a 90 -300mm lense which I very much doubt is a F2.8....so again we need to afford him the best chance of getting sharp images by upping his s/speeds.
P/Auto won't take all this into account.
And all this expertise coming from a guy owning a mklll......!!! shame on you ANDRE
these guys "want" to learn Photography.....so lets get them off of P/AUTO and into the real world....TUT TUT
The moment you stick things in Auto...they have a mind of there own.
NO camera not even A mkll or D3 would cope with say a balloon back lit in the sky in P mode...unless you know what you are doing.
I said shutter priority + 250th/sec is because the guy is noob...and noobs on DSLR tend to get a lot of camera shake when starting out.
i advised this so he can at least enjoy his day out with the camera knowing 95% success hit rate.
Give him more chance to concentrate on composition etc.
He also owns a 90 -300mm lense which I very much doubt is a F2.8....so again we need to afford him the best chance of getting sharp images by upping his s/speeds.
P/Auto won't take all this into account.
And all this expertise coming from a guy owning a mklll......!!! shame on you ANDRE
these guys "want" to learn Photography.....so lets get them off of P/AUTO and into the real world....TUT TUT
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Brown.
Well said
Hate to point this out but unless I'm being stupid P or TV at 1/250 won't cope any better than each other with a back lit balloon as I'm sure you aware
but thats a whole new area of photographer.Bickering aside, since this must have happened a few days ago be good to see what worked..
I think you would be pretty appalled at just how many photos I take using P (Program) Mode!...although I hate AUTO, which adjusts ISO and other stuff.
Away from Motorsport and a few other specialist things where I really experiment, I'm as lazy as it gets. I will always remember winning a competition and the magazine wanted me to describe how I did it, I think they were expecting a 10 minute set-up, light meter, tripod and god knows what else...when in reality I never spend more than a second or two planning and taking a shot.
Clart
ClioSport Club Member
I mostly use AP, occaisonally SP, and when i want a bit more control, I'll use manual.
Just practice first and see what your comfortable with. The last thing you want to be doing is messing around in manual not really knowing what you're doing when you could be taking pics.
Just practice first and see what your comfortable with. The last thing you want to be doing is messing around in manual not really knowing what you're doing when you could be taking pics.
