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Canon T4i settings question

Started Dec 20, 2014 | Questions thread
quiquae Senior Member • Posts: 2,265
Re: Canon T4i settings question

BAK wrote:

I'm curious why you would use the Av setting if you know so little about the camera.

The safe setting is P for Program.

Um, I wouldn't recommend P mode to a total beginner.

If he is in a can't-fail situation, he should just use the Scene Intelligent mode, rather than P mode which still has enough manual variables to ruin the results if you don't know what you are doing. True, SI mode does have a problem of its own in that it doesn't allow for RAW output, but if you haven't even mastered Av mode yet, learning RAW post-processing should be just about the last thing on your priority list. (as computer scientists say, garbage in, garbage out)

And for learning purposes, Av is superior to P because the beginner is left with no choice but to manually manipulate the aperture, and to learn from the consequence of setting it wrong. P mode lets you get away with sorta kinda knowing what's going on, which slows the learning process. Of the three parameters of exposure, the aperture is probably the hardest to understand, so it makes sense to center the learning experience on it.

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