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I almost always use Av, just because I learned my stuff on an old practika that did just have that, and manual of course. I start making errors if I use anything else.

My wife uses the 10D for snapshots, see uses either P or green. The advantage of green is that she can (and wants to) shoot jpeg, and I can shoot raw witout going into the menu's. I hand her the camera, she puts it on green and of she goes.

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Merijn Wijnen
 
newyorkgroove said:
Most people I know choose to let the camera do the work, how often
do you shoot in P mode and does anyone actually use the GREEN mode?
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Only use M, Av or Tv. Couldn't think of a sensible use for all those other positions on the dial.

At least if I screw it up I might have some idea why. Leaving it to what a programmer thinks is how it should be does not exactly fill me with confidence.

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Kenny

If you really want to know what I shoot with - look under my profile.
 
I always use Av (90%), and the rest M for night shots and flash photography.

Nugi
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10D + three black L lenses.
 
newyorkgroove said:
Most people I know choose to let the camera do the work, how often
do you shoot in P mode and does anyone actually use the GREEN mode?
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quite a lot since I tried to take some wild life photos at f11 and 1/20th sec on a 200mm lens after not changing aperture in Av mode. P gets a shot and if you have time you can set speed or stop for the next one.
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JohnR
 
newyorkgroove said:
Most people I know choose to let the camera do the work, how often
do you shoot in P mode and does anyone actually use the GREEN mode?
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mostly Av and M. I prefer the control, but under certain circumstances, P works as well as Av. Still--my settings are almost always Av--and I use M for interior flash 90% of the time.
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Diane B
http://www.pbase.com/picnic/galleries
B/W lover, but color is seducing me
 
Notice I didn't say great.

Just for grins and to "...see how good the D60's 'puters are", I documented my automobile engine conversion with the camera set entirely in "Brain Dead Photographer Mode" (green square). The results of this are posted here:
http://home.comcast.net/~mkubes/supra/nat/index.html

All of the shots were taken in BDPM. Some of them needed to have the shadows lightened a bit due to extreme contrast in the subject. Occasionally I had a shot that was badly overexposed with the flash (again due to extremes in subject contrast). Sometimes the camera would pick a focus point nowhere near where I wanted, usually in close-up type shots. When I'd re-frame to get the correct focus, It'd sometimes read exposure from an unwanted area. It sometimes took some creativity to get the camera to do what I wanted. All-in-all though, it performed pretty well. I would never use BDPM in any situation where the shots were truly important but I can imagine where I might, in some situations, turn the dial to the evil green square again.

Havin' Fun-
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Mark Kubes
Marietta GA USA
G4 & D-60
If I can think it, I can make it happen...
http://www.pbase.com/mkubes
 
I NEVER use green mode because it gives you control over squat. I sometimes use P mode when using my 420EX w/ ETTL.

60% of the time it's Av, 30% it's Tv however.

Cheers,
Simon
 
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