This week I'm asking a kind of technical question, which maybe will enlighten some people, maybe will inform some people, and hopefully will get some discussion of why we set our cameras the way that we do.
This week I would like to know if you set your camera to Auto ISO or set it manually to a certain speed. For people who are just starting to understand the various settings and how they work, there's a great article on the blog about
ISO Settings and what they do and how they impact how your shot turns out.
If you use Auto ISO, do you use fully automatic selection by the camera or do you give it a maximum ISO that you will let it shoot at? Why do you use Auto ISO? Is it because you didn't know you could change it or because your camera does a pretty good job making decisions about it?
If you manually set your ISO, well, you probably change it for different situations, but, what is the most common ISO that you shoot at and why? How do you feel that your camera deals with high ISOs? Would you shoot at your camera's highest ISO in order to get enough light or would you change a different setting first? Are you a person who takes night shots with a high ISO (and short shutter speed) or a low ISO (and a long shutter speed)? Share your tips about what settings you start changing your ISO in.
Hopefully these more technical polls will help provide some useful information to people just starting out.
