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Poll - how many people here use Manual exposure on a fairly frequent basis??

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vlatko said:
Bill_Turner said:
Auto ISO is somewhat of a misnomer. In Auto ISO, this ISO is
locked at 100 unless using Flash at which time the Camera/Flash
combination will vary ISO dependent on the exposure.
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Er, no, it's not.
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Double er, yes it is.
vlatko said:
I've got tons of photos shot at Auto ISO and
E-300 definitely varies the ISO.
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That's because you are confusing the 'Auto ISO' ISO setting with the E300's ability to alter the ISO in certain scene modes.
 
for the difficult conditions (where the light is all over the place). But I usually use A with some amount of exposure comp.

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I use manual metering and exposure whenever the lighting is not "normal." Whenever I shoot my sunset shots, I manual meter using my E-1 spot meter and then shoot away. In the case below, I spot meter the bright sky somewhat away from the sun and then bracket a series of exposures. You could do the same with AEL in the same place, but that goes away after one exposure. Manual exposure is great when you want to set a very specific combination of ISO, aperture, and shutter speed and then just shoot away without thinking about the lighting for a while.



I also use manual exposure (but not metering!) when I "know" the exposure and it should not change as I shoot away. For example, in Colorado on a sunny day, I set ISO 100, aperture f/8, shutter speed 1/500 (or a close variation) and forget the meter as long as the subject is normally illuminated. I call this manual exposure with seat-of-the-pants metering. Someone once called it by-guess-and-by-golly metering. It's actually a close relative of the Sunny 16 rule.



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I don't make stupid mistakes. My mistakes are always very clever.
 
whenever the FL50 is on the camera or I'm using my strobes I use manual exposure. Seems to me to be much more quicker to get the results I want and not what the camera / flash think I want. I set exposure to 1/160th if outside and bright, adjust my aperture depending upon depth of field I need, then see how far my flash will go for fill and far away my subject/s is from camera. Take a couple shots and see if I'm getting what I want...repeat as necessary. Pretty much same with strobes.

If I'm not using flash is aperture priority with the rear wheel on E1 set for exposure compensation.

I let the camera take care of the focus since the E1 screen is just a tad too small for my old eyes! Plus my contacts are power 14 and 11, ie the size of coke bottle bottoms (been like this since 2nd grade).

Dan
 
I think I got 4 or 5 who say they use manual whenever their FL-50 is on the shoe. Interesting.

For all the drooling that has been done over how good it is in TTL, we have people shutting off the TTL — rather than using a "Wang-ho" (or Sunpak, etc.) manual flash that can be picked up for less than $100.

I understand turning it to manual sometimes, such as in backlit shots. TTL is useless for backlit shots and you need the punch of a full manual to fill the shadows.
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Barry
 
EIther Manual mode or Aperture, often, and when things are moving to fast Program mode with exposure compensation. I manual focus all the time because I have a Katz eye split screen. Which requires me to use exposure compensation with the 50-200 and 14-54 with 1.4 attached.
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Barry Stewart said:
For all the drooling that has been done over how good it is in TTL,
we have people shutting off the TTL
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Hi Barry,
I don't understand the above comment.

I use manual mode on the camera with my FL-36 (I think it works like the FL-50). I dial in the shutterspeed and apeture and use the flash in TTL mode. That works very nicely...
Maybe it is not what you ment..?

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As you know the E-1 has two dials, in manual mode one for the diafragm and the other for the shutter... So is very easy to use the camera in Manual.

I am very used to work in manual since I started in photo so it is no problem to me... I use manual mode very often, actually more than the other modes.

Saludos.
 
.. using the camera's meter for consistent exposure in stable lighting.

Once I find a good exposure for the ambient light in an area, I like the fact that I no longer have to be worried about the meter being foold by light or dark objects in the shot.
 
Getting back into photography after +- 25 years, I find I use manual as much as I can, primarily to re-educate myself on how to properly set the camera for any situation. I feel that understanding the workings of the camera should make me a better photographer and capture shots of great opportunities that others may miss.

While I believe Auto mode is great for most photo ops, I want to be able to jump into manual mode at any time for any situation that may require special settings, DOF, etc.

Anyone can pick up a camera and shoot in Auto mode and get decent pictures, but I believe the manual mode sets true photographers apart from the herd. (IMHO)
 
The only exception I have is if I am moving around trying to capture a particular event in daylight ironically, but I want to change that too.

Also I use autofocus a lot, but I am pushing myself to use manual focus a bit more.

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DLGW said:
It really makes me appreciate the dual control wheels on the E 1
(and its one of the only things my wife prefers about the E 1 over
her E 300).
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I'll say it again, the E-system should have been designed like the L1 from the beginning, with a separate aperture and shutter controls...then it would be far easier to do manual rather than pushing buttons and then turning dials.
 
Ben Herrmann said:
Manual is wonderful - especially when you are doing spot metering,
or when using a method called the Chromazone Method of metering.
But I use it exclusively when doing indoor flash scenarios. I just
set my camera to manual, dialing in the shutter speed and aperture
that I've become accustomed to - and then (if using a dedicated
flash) set the flash to TTL and use in bounce mode. Works
absolutely superbly.
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BEN
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What shutter and aperture do you normally use? Thanks,

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Jørgen:

I may have mis-read what the earlier posters were saying. You may be right that they are in manual on the camera and TTL on the flash.

Then again, I may be right!

For myself, it's the FL-50 that gets turned to manual (for tough lighting situations) more than the E-1. But when the E-1 is manual, I'd say I almost always have the FL-50 in auto or manual.

I do wish that Oly would have a truly manual mode for the FL-50, 40, and 36. A 3rd party manual flash can synch up to 1/320th, whereas the Oly flashes can only go to 1/160th in manual mode (non-FP). Put a bit of paper in the way of the TTL contacts (or use off-camera cables or wireless slaves) and an Oly flash can synch up to 1/320th.
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Barry
 
I shoot outdoor sports with a high dynamic range - such as a climber on a cliff with a bright sky, by using only manual I can set the camera to the exposure I want and it doesn't matter then what is in the frame. I use spot on a suitable area to determin the correct exposure. A friend who does this for a living always uses manual and meters off a (very batterd) grey card.
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I always use manual exposure with spot metering except when I'm using the FL-50 flash. I've been shooting in manual exposure mode for years and it's secont nature to me now. I used to use aperture priority for general shooting and I still use it when I'm shooting through the microscope.

I rely pretty heavily on auto white balance but I shoot RAW and often end up fine-tuning the white balance in PP. (Less so with the E-1 than the others)

I use auto focus most of the time (except some macro work or in low light cases where the auto focus gets confused) because I find it much easier than manual focus with the ZD lenses.

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