Really stupid question/observation.

[jowensphoto]

Hipster shooters. lol I never understood that either. People do that with everything though, not just cameras. Right now it is "cool" to be "different" so a lot of people are doing things they don't even understand to stand out more, all while blending deeper into the trendy cesspool.

Do people really shoot in manual to be "cool" or "different"? Most people who shoot in manual either a) are learning to use their camera and how to control exposure or b) know how to use it and do so effectively.

I didn't realize shooting in manual was the same as proverbially jumping off the diving board into a steaming pile of ****.

 

[ristretto]

Sometimes what your eye sees is not necessarily how the camera will take / shoot / record it....

That's a fundamental aspect of photography that needs to be understood. The camera can only make one, arbitrary exposure of about five stops' range. The human eye continuously adjusts to localized magnitudes of light, within a world of at least ten stops luminance in practical terms. Traditionally, photography is taking the camera's exposure on film, developing it, and manipulating the print into a picture that more closely mirrors what we saw, remembered seeing, or wish to portray.

 

[robbins.photo]

I see a lot of people shooting in manual just so they can say "hey look at how cool I am, I shoot in manual!" Kinda like people that struggle with Linux just so they can say they don't use Windows

But I do have a real question about this. If you're going to shoot in manual and tweak your settings to get your on-camera light meter right in the middle at the "standard exposure" mark, then why shoot in manual? Am I missing something? I'd really like to understand why people do it. If your goal is to get a standard exposure then why not shoot in one of the other modes?

Because I don't tweak my settings to get my on-camera light meter in the middle at the "standard exposure" mark.

I tweak my settings to get my on-camera light meter to whatever exposure mark is appropriate for what I'm metering... Which is very often, NOT in the center.

And if you think people only shoot in manual to say "look how cool I am", you need to learn you some mo' schtuff.

Ok, need some help on this one, I googled mo schtuff for dummies and came up empty.

Got like an amazon link or at least an isbn?

Lol

 

[dweazel]

Do people really show off about being in manual?
I mean reaaally?...

I probably would if i knew how it worked.

 

[robbins.photo]

Do people really show off about being in manual?
I mean reaaally?...

I probably would if i knew how it worked.

Ok, does buying a tshirt that I wear while shooting that reads real men shoot manual count as "showing off"

Lol

 

[chuasam]

I shoot in manual because I do studio work and my camera's light meter is useless for studio flashes.
I use Linux because that's what android is

 

[snerd]

LOL!! I bought a shirt from Fro Knows Photo that is blue and the front says I Shoot Raw!! On the back is a caricature of Fro's nappy head. I wear it all the time when out shooting.

 

[weepete]

I shoot in manual most of the time. I even use the dreaded spot metering mode a lot. Largely because the auto modes in my camera usually sacrifice too much of one value and I'd rather pick something else. But I rarely shoot in optimum lighting conditions and when I do I'm not adverse to using auto modes. Just gotta know when to use them.

I'm now quicker with manual than I am with auto modes though that sounds weird.

 

[CAP]

I like Ubuntu ! and I work on Large scale data servers and they all run Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and i love working with it compared to windows.

 

[manaheim]

OMG... zombie thread, 9 pages long, and a topic that has been beaten severely to death several thousand times on the forum.