Mike Engles
Senior Member
What no one seems to get is that yes, with high resolutions one should use much higher if not twice or three times the shutter speed as one would use for any focal length as in the days of film. But we also have cameras and lenses that offer 5-8 stops of stabilisation, so effectively one should be safely using much lower speeds for even higher resolutions. So technique does not really come into it, as stabilisation takes over.You can be shaky as you like, but stabilisation will come to your rescue.Perhaps? So where is the technique of developing a steady hand? We did that 50 years ago.
So there could be focussing technique, but now the camera is supposed to take care of that. Does anyone try to manually focus on the eye of a flying bird or even a bird on a perch? Strangely I do, at least try to, a almost redundant vestige of my 50 year old technique.
Why shutter speed matters is because it is needed to mitigate subject movement and again technique cannot really matter as one does not have control of subject movement. At best one can do is to judge when the subject is most still, or spray till a still moment occurs. No technique involved, unless one gets to know a subject very well. Try that with a flower blowing in the wind. There will always be a moment when it is still. Something also learnt 50 years ago, knowledge and timing.
Now there could be a technique, and there always was, when it comes to timing when to press the shutter. This something I always try to do, as I only do single frames. Again something I learnt 50 years ago.How many people actually now do that nowadays, especially as the the technique is to just press the button, take 20 or 30 frames a second and hope that some are good. Where is the technique in that?
The cameras today are most totally automated. I often wonder why they do not start shooting as a soon a a 'correct' focus is obtained. Oh yes of course they do, as some OM cameras do just that and start when the camera is raised. Phone cameras do as well. Still cameras are now movie cameras. Where is the much vaunted technique?
There in now supposed to be a technique in guessing and guessing it is, what AF settings to use. Those settings have been set in optimum and repeatable conditions, something that does not occur in real life.
In the days before automated exposure, one learned a technique of balancing ASA (ISO) shutter speed and aperture, manually. I still use it. How many now actually do, as, as far as I can see from posts most people use auto ISO, and or auto shutter and aperture. The only technique is in using exp comp and that often for contradicting reasons.
There is no modern technique and yet any one who complains, gets the 'improve' your technique nonsense.It is nonsense and actually INSULTING.
So there could be focussing technique, but now the camera is supposed to take care of that. Does anyone try to manually focus on the eye of a flying bird or even a bird on a perch? Strangely I do, at least try to, a almost redundant vestige of my 50 year old technique.
Why shutter speed matters is because it is needed to mitigate subject movement and again technique cannot really matter as one does not have control of subject movement. At best one can do is to judge when the subject is most still, or spray till a still moment occurs. No technique involved, unless one gets to know a subject very well. Try that with a flower blowing in the wind. There will always be a moment when it is still. Something also learnt 50 years ago, knowledge and timing.
Now there could be a technique, and there always was, when it comes to timing when to press the shutter. This something I always try to do, as I only do single frames. Again something I learnt 50 years ago.How many people actually now do that nowadays, especially as the the technique is to just press the button, take 20 or 30 frames a second and hope that some are good. Where is the technique in that?
The cameras today are most totally automated. I often wonder why they do not start shooting as a soon a a 'correct' focus is obtained. Oh yes of course they do, as some OM cameras do just that and start when the camera is raised. Phone cameras do as well. Still cameras are now movie cameras. Where is the much vaunted technique?
There in now supposed to be a technique in guessing and guessing it is, what AF settings to use. Those settings have been set in optimum and repeatable conditions, something that does not occur in real life.
In the days before automated exposure, one learned a technique of balancing ASA (ISO) shutter speed and aperture, manually. I still use it. How many now actually do, as, as far as I can see from posts most people use auto ISO, and or auto shutter and aperture. The only technique is in using exp comp and that often for contradicting reasons.
There is no modern technique and yet any one who complains, gets the 'improve' your technique nonsense.It is nonsense and actually INSULTING.
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