Manual Mode: How long is it for you to mix the settings?

[Robin Usagani]

Aperture adjustment on the forefinger, shutter speed on the thumb..... without removing my eye from the viewfinder. One second, maybe two.

Well.. depends what camera they have. My 500D is a lot easier to look at the LCD because you only have the forefinger wheel.

 

[sobolik]

I wanna ask, how long is it for you to adjust the apperture, shutterspeed, metering, exposure, iso, etc before you start to shoot?

And i wanna know what is the average time to do it.

My family members are getting impatientwhen i shoot them because it's about 15mins before i adjust the settings on every different environment. Lol

You are doing it wrong. "My family members are getting impatientwhen i shoot"

Use auto unless you care about something:
If you care about DOF then use Aperture priority
If you care about blur then use Shutter speed priority
If none of the above will work then and only then use manual.

 

[JasonLambert]

If none of the above will work then and only then use manual.

:lmao:

 

[IgsEMT]

I shoot manual 99.999999999999% of the time. Just used to it.
Here's my basic approach to average snapshot that I do at home
ISO 400 (change if need to)
1/80-1/125sec
f/5.6-8
Flash in TTL.
If need to change something usually takes less then a second except ISO b/c for that I need to use two hands. Otherwise, I can do that w/o removing the LCD further then 2-3inches from my head.

WHEN I'm using strobe lights/off-camera lights & can't get to adjust it, then might take about 20-30sec to think and readjust based on what it gives me.

 

[kundalini]

Well.. depends what camera they have. My 500D is a lot easier to look at the LCD because you only have the forefinger wheel.

My condolences to the Canon shooters out there.

 

[Dominantly]

Can't imagine not having the two thumb wheels.

 

[IgsEMT]

Can't imagine not having the two thumb wheels.

no wheels here

 

[Robin Usagani]

Maybe thats why there is a lot of aperture priority shooter lol

Well.. depends what camera they have. My 500D is a lot easier to look at the LCD because you only have the forefinger wheel.

My condolences to the Canon shooters out there.

 

[Emilymarie]

id say about 10 seconds. I decide my ISO before any shoot.

 

[enzodm]

Well.. depends what camera they have. My 500D is a lot easier to look at the LCD because you only have the forefinger wheel.

My condolences to the Canon shooters out there.

I suppose only to Canon entry-level shooters, as well as Nikon entry level shooters too .

 

[Boomn4x4]

15 mintues is WAYYYYY too long. You are doing something wrong, I'd be interested to hear what your process is for setting your exposure. There is no reason you can't easily cut that down to under a minute.

 

[Chamelion 6]

I wanna ask, how long is it for you to adjust the apperture, shutterspeed, metering, exposure, iso, etc before you start to shoot?

And i wanna know what is the average time to do it.

My family members are getting impatientwhen i shoot them because it's about 15mins before i adjust the settings on every different environment. Lol

You are doing it wrong. "My family members are getting impatientwhen i shoot"

Use auto unless you care about something:
If you care about DOF then use Aperture priority
If you care about blur then use Shutter speed priority
If none of the above will work then and only then use manual.

This is pretty close to my philosophy... Honestly, if you're using the camera's internal metering system you're not likely to come up with anything one of the camera's modes can't produce. I don't really get the "M" mode cult myself... I use pretty much every mode on the camera, though AV and P are the most used. P is nice cause the camera delivers an exposure setting and I can easily adjust the aperture or shutter speed as needed. It's also easy to bracket it up or down a couple of stops if I need to. I rarely see the need to resort to Manual, but to you gotta understand what the different modes produce...

Less time fiddeling with the camera trying to get a decent exposure means more of your attention is on the subject and paying attention to your composition.

 

[messyone]

I wanna ask, how long is it for you to adjust the apperture, shutterspeed, metering, exposure, iso, etc before you start to shoot?

And i wanna know what is the average time to do it.

My family members are getting impatientwhen i shoot them because it's about 15mins before i adjust the settings on every different environment. Lol

You are doing it wrong. "My family members are getting impatientwhen i shoot"

Use auto unless you care about something:
If you care about DOF then use Aperture priority
If you care about blur then use Shutter speed priority
If none of the above will work then and only then use manual.

Good advice. I would say shoot your first few on auto. Then play around in manual. So if they tend to run away... you at least have some good pics to show them later :mrgreen: