Auto ISO Behavior

Rod McD wrote:

Hi,

I'm going to be controversial and ask 'why switch to auto-ISO?' It doesn't seem to me to offer any significant benefits. It introduces more complexity than setting ISO myself and occasional hidden pitfalls for the unwary. Despite many threads on the subject, I still don't know why anyone bothers.

Absolutely disagree. After wider implementation of autoISO minSS feature among camera manufacturers, I don't understand why someone even bother with manual ISO changes. Of course there are some exception - working with flash and you will set lowest ISO on tripod 😉.

There are hidden pitfalls only for those who are lazy to learn even simple logic behind this setting.

EDIT: in some way is controversial my statement, not yours. I made a poll in our local photography facebook group (2000+ members) regarding using autoISO feature. The results was app. 40% use it, 60% change ISO manually. When I asked several times and in detail "WHY?". The most common answer was, that someone teach them this way and they are used it. I got absolutely no racional reason why to use manual ISO instead of autoISO.

The Fuji gods put a thumping great knob on the top left hand end of my camera to control ISO in a system where their market purports to actually like analogue controls. It's got numbers on it. When the light is bright, I turn it to low numbers. When the light is low (or I specifically want faster SS's) I turn it to higher numbers. It's easy. The light never changes so fast that I need it automated. I knowwhat my camera is set to and I don't get any strange outcomes around the set-up parameters, DR management or electronic flash usage. It's kind of fail-safe - it works beautifully!

Cheers, Rod