Best iso setting for your camera

[480sparky41 40]

What's the right google search term to figure this out? I've never even heard of adjusting by more than a full stop, and I'm curious if my camera does this or not...

Check your camera's manual.

 

[hamlet]

......, there are too many settings i just dont want to be bothered with. If the picture bugs, then i use lightroom to adjust my picture. ..........

A bad habit to have.

I just dont know enough about this subject. When i'm out on the field i'm too busy on my shot.

 

[Josh66]

What's the right google search term to figure this out? I've never even heard of adjusting by more than a full stop, and I'm curious if my camera does this or not...

Look up ISO in the index of the manual for your camera. If you can adjust in 1/2 or 1/3 stop increments, one of the pages referred to in the index should tell you how.

 

[SCraig]

What's the right google search term to figure this out? I've never even heard of adjusting by more than a full stop, and I'm curious if my camera does this or not...

"Camera Owner's Manual". ISO will adjust in the same increments as aperture and shutter speed, normally 1/2 or 1/3 stop increments.

 

[Josh66]

What's the right google search term to figure this out? I've never even heard of adjusting by more than a full stop, and I'm curious if my camera does this or not...

"Camera Owner's Manual". ISO will adjust in the same increments as aperture and shutter speed, normally 1/2 or 1/3 stop increments.

Not always. Not uncommon for ISO to only be adjustable in full stop increments.

 

[amolitor]

I am pretty sure that my camera will not adjust in increments less than 1 EV. If it could, I wouldn't want to use that setting anyways, fine control of ISO just isn't built in to the way I think about exposure.

 

[SCraig]

"Camera Owner's Manual". ISO will adjust in the same increments as aperture and shutter speed, normally 1/2 or 1/3 stop increments.

Not always. Not uncommon for ISO to only be adjustable in full stop increments.[/QUOTE]
I haven't run across one. All four of my Nikon bodies will adjust in 1/3 or 1/2 stop increments depending on the setting in the firmware. Film bodies yes, but I haven't run across a relatively recent model digital body that won't. I admit I could be wrong though since I haven't used them all.

 

[HughGuessWho98 13]

I usually ignore the white balance on my camera and leave it on auto, there are too many settings i just dont want to be bothered with. If the picture bugs, then i use lightroom to adjust my picture. Here is the full picture so you can get an idea what i was going for:

Sorry, that was a half hazard stab at humor. There are several on this forum that will always comment on horizons and white balance, regardless of the original question.
Disregard my comments and carry on.

 

[Josh66]

I haven't run across one. All four of my Nikon bodies will adjust in 1/3 or 1/2 stop increments depending on the setting in the firmware. Film bodies yes, but I haven't run across a relatively recent model digital body that won't. I admit I could be wrong though since I haven't used them all.

My experience is exactly the opposite, lol.

My film bodies (all of them) have ISO adjustments in 1/3 stop increments (even when aperture or shutter speed can only be adjusted in full or 1/2 stop increments). The digital bodies I've used on the other hand (which are admittedly few, and old) only support full stop ISO adjustments.

 

[skieur]

200 seems to be the consensus of most of the reviewers.

 

[imagemaker46]

Film, I liked asa 200 for a little more shadow detail. Digital, what ever works for what I'm shooting. I don't compare film and digital. There was much more of a skill to using film.

 

[SCraig]

My film bodies (all of them) have ISO adjustments in 1/3 stop increments (even when aperture or shutter speed can only be adjusted in full or 1/2 stop increments). The digital bodies I've used on the other hand (which are admittedly few, and old) only support full stop ISO adjustments.

I don't even know what my film body has as far as ASA (it's from before ISO was adopted) but it does have 1/3 stop exposure compensation

My D60 is from 2008 and it has 1/3 stop ISO adjustment. Bodies before that could well have been full-stop ISO, I don't really know since that was the first one I bought. I guess I just assumed that they all did since that bottom-of-the-line entry-level body did. Assumptions are not good ideas so I apologize if I posted bad information.

 

[Josh66]

My film bodies (all of them) have ISO adjustments in 1/3 stop increments (even when aperture or shutter speed can only be adjusted in full or 1/2 stop increments). The digital bodies I've used on the other hand (which are admittedly few, and old) only support full stop ISO adjustments.

I don't even know what my film body has as far as ASA (it's from before ISO was adopted) but it does have 1/3 stop exposure compensation

My D60 is from 2008 and it has 1/3 stop ISO adjustment. Bodies before that could well have been full-stop ISO, I don't really know since that was the first one I bought. I guess I just assumed that they all did since that bottom-of-the-line entry-level body did. Assumptions are not good ideas so I apologize if I posted bad information.

It may also be one of those Canon/Nikon differences...

 

[minicoop1985]

In my Olympus E-450, the best ISO setting is buy something else.

Seriously, though, there's noise galore at ISO 100. It's bad.

 

[hamlet]

After pixel peeping, 100 iso is probably the best iso setting. Though if i put it on either 100 or 200, nobody would be able to tell the difference even at 100% zoom.


300% zoom example overexposed by 2 stops to exagurate any faults:

iso 100

iso 200