Comments on: What Mode Do You Shoot in Most

By: Richard Mittra

Richard Mittra — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:07:57 +0000

Hello there.

I own a Canon IXUS 860 IS which currently is being checked for a lens motor malfunction 3 months after purchase. However I use Auto exposure for normal daytime photography and play with SCN settings after dusk or when light is limited. Last week I purchased a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 which is fantastic and hopefully will be kinder to me.

I am getting the Canon fixed as I have a expensive Underwater housing that I haven’t used yet but if the camera can be restored to it’s original state then I will have a dedicated tool for diving photography.

Thanks for a great site.

By: George E. Norkus

George E. Norkus — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:31:13 +0000

Okay, I’m wrong on my last message.

Some of the other companies have started to copy Pentax, (again), and do have something like hyper program mode.

By: George E. Norkus

George E. Norkus — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:21:43 +0000

About 99% of the time I just leave it in “P” mode. My Pentax K20D has what the other companies don’t have… Hyper Program!

Pentax allows me to use normal program mode, (just like the other camera companies), or with a simple dial roll I’m using program mode and set my apt for DoF control. If I choose, another simple dial roll and I’m in program mode with motion control settings. I can also use a combination of both while still in program mode.

If I should get way out of bounds, I push what I call a “PHD” button. (Push Here Dummy!) It’s a small green button that puts everything back to the ordinary program mode.

Hyper Program puts Pentax one step above the others. It’s quick and easy! Should I want to use the other modes, they are there just like the others.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:10:22 +0000

I shoot a D-90 In Shutter P. I mainly shoot High School / Middle School Sports and like the controle over my shutter speed.

By: Christel

Christel — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:00:04 +0000

I mostly shoot in aperture setting. But I also switch back and forth to shutter & manual. I don’t shoot raw. At least not at the moment.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:27:41 +0000

I”m apparently one of the few that shoots in scene mode a lot. But it’s for a very specific reason – I shoot a lot of sports photography and the sport setting on my a700 works very well given that I’m constantly changing position and focus. (Almost always in JPEG – extra fine to get as fast an fps as I can with enough detail that I can crop as needed.)

When I’m doing more static work, however, I shoot in either manual or aperture – or occasionally auto mode. And always in RAW – JPEG combo.

By: Neill Shenton

Neill Shenton — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:30:31 +0000

I use ‘P’ and turn the wheel on my D40 to get the ap/shutter combination I want. I use expose compensation or exposure lock when I know the light will be difficult for the meter or I want to under or over expose. When I have an old ‘AI’ lens on the D40 I use a hand held meter (euromaster V) or successive approximations (the advantage of the histogram)

By: Rob Wilson

Rob Wilson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:55:28 +0000

The only reason I shoot in auto almost 100% of the time is that I have been reduced to a low-end P&S. My main camera broke and I am putting aside pennies to buy the new Oly E-620. I plan to invest a lot in the learning curve of manual shooting to get the images I see but cannot currently capture.

Every now and then I take a run at playing with the different manual settings to see what I can get, but the camera is quite limited in its capabilities. Soon I’ll be a manual-shooting nutcase!!

Oh, it’s also why I don’t shoot in RAW – my current camera does not have that capability. There are many instances of taking photos when I would use RAW because I know I will want to do a lot of post production on the images. My new camera can shoot jpeg and RAW at the same time, which is a wonderful thing :)

By: Edsar

Edsar — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:49:58 +0000

Since most of the time I shoot indoor, still subject not a fast moving subject and play too much in the Depth of field so 90% in AV mode from Canon 400D while the result is satisfying in my point of view, while sometimes the 5% are manual to play a bit in exposure and the remaining 5% are Shutter priority TV mode for some fast moving subject , panning and blurring photos.

By: Goose129

Goose129 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:14:30 +0000

Well, I do shoot manual 90% of the time, but there are occassions when I will switch to Aperture Priority. Usually when I am shooting for HDR.