Why don't people like program mode?

[Mystwalker]

More control = the photos you want to take, not the photos the camera wants to take.

BUT the camera make better decisions then me


If you want total control and fast enough, use Manual.

I've never used Program, but from the explanations here am going to give it a shot. Have to find my manual first though - no idea how "P" mode works.

 

[480sparky]

 

[ann]

good heavens another 3 year old thread comes round again

 

[Patrice]

Sparky,

Any reason you revived this thread?

 

[480sparky]

Sparky,

Any reason you revived this thread?

I didn't..... another post must have been removed.

 

[480sparky]

Nice try, not cigar. removing a thread would have nothing to do with you revisiting a very old thread.

It does when someone makes a post and I comment on THAT MEMBER reviving an old thread.

And it's NO cigar.

 

[ann]

perhaps it is a boring morning

 

[djacobox372]

Hey Battou, if you are going to call people idiots, you might want to at least spell your words correctly while doing so.... There are at least a half dozen mis spelled words there friend. I always though "P" was for "Professional" anyways

At least he didn't misspell "misspelled."Lol!

 

[Josh66]

Does anybody you guys are replying to even care? The OP last posted here in '08... Most of the other posters in this thread have been MIA for quite a while too...

Not sure what happened to him (the OP)... He used to always say that he hurt himself (cutting, or whatever) as punishment for doing 'bad things'...

 

[Garbz]

He committed suicide due to the spellings amiss in this thread.

 

[Mike_E]

Another blast from the past.

I miss a few names from this thread.






Others...nooootsomuch

 

[SuzukiGS750EZ]

In all honesty, when i bought my 80D which was an upgrade from my XTi, i looked at it and was somewhat disappointed. I guess in certain situations like handing someone your camera to compose a shot with you in it somehow Auto or Program mode would be a good choice, but in all honesty i wish they would just get rid of the dial and only incorporate P mode. I may be prejudice but it drives me crazy when people buy expensive DSLR and keep them in Auto mode or P Mode (which i view as one in the same) and expect their pictures to come out "professional" just because they look the part. They're similar to the people who load their garage up with snap on tools but don't know how to properly diagnose a mechanical failure in a vehicle. Looking the part... I really only use P mode in the same situation i described using A mode, except when i don't want the flash to go off. Set ISO, hand camera.

 

[waday]

Per @480sparky:

 

[astroNikon]

In all honesty, when i bought my 80D which was an upgrade from my XTi, i looked at it and was somewhat disappointed. I guess in certain situations like handing someone your camera to compose a shot with you in it somehow Auto or Program mode would be a good choice, but in all honesty i wish they would just get rid of the dial and only incorporate P mode. I may be prejudice but it drives me crazy when people buy expensive DSLR and keep them in Auto mode or P Mode (which i view as one in the same) and expect their pictures to come out "professional" just because they look the part. They're similar to the people who load their garage up with snap on tools but don't know how to properly diagnose a mechanical failure in a vehicle. Looking the part... I really only use P mode in the same situation i described using A mode, except when i don't want the flash to go off. Set ISO, hand camera.

I was at bestbuy several times the past weeks to check out the Nikon D500. It has a professional body and setup, along with the D810.

The lady I was talking to was telling me how every so often people would come in and they are upgrading from the D3x00 to a D810 and are angry that the D810 (nor the d500) doesn't have an AUTO mode. All they have are PASM and no Scene or Effects features either. By that time up the ladder you should know what you are doing, otherwise the camera is just about as good as the lower end cameras except faster and bigger and more expensive.

I'm in Manual essentially 100% of the time because I usually want a specific Aperture and a specific Shutter.

 

[otherprof]

Because I like taking pictures.


I don't like pushing a button and having a little black box do it all.


On a slightly less personal note.....

Program mode is an idiot setting. In experienced hands it's almost useless, but can be pushed to it's limits, However such a derogatory or otherwise term develops biased on it's application and not it's potential. So as long as dSLRs are being sold to novices who never try to learn how to use the camera and leave it in program mode, the sentiment will always remain that it is an idiot setting because the number of applications sways heavy to the inexperienced side in comparison to the number of those who know how use it to it's potential.

Almost as bad as auto focus!