LOL I knew this would lure you. How's your trip?

Well most people go on vacation to relax and recover from the everyday nonsense. I'm going to need to recover from this vacation. Ha, I am exhausted from all the running around in Thailand. Yesterday we traveled all day back to the Philippines. I spent most of my day just chilling at my parent's place. It's been great though!

My last day of school this semester is tomorrow, then I get 1 month off for winter break. 21 hours, where 15 are reading intensive + photo business = I need some time to play starcrack. I haven't even had time to shoot for the contest yet :\

I haven't done much shooting here... I shot quite a bit in Thailand, but that was mostly touristy shooting.

Yes, it's exactly the same thing, except it's faster. That was the point I was trying to make - thank you.

How is it slower if you are doing the same action of adjusting the exposure via a wheel? You do know that you can leave the aperture stationary while in M and only move the shutter and vice versa?



I know exactly how my camera works, where everything is without looking and it's limitations. Even simply getting to the "shooting modes" with my camera isn't an obvious process. I wonder why canon designed it that way on a professional body.



I simply can't except that. If you've missed a shot, blaming it on your exposure is basically blaming your skill. If you've missed a shot, you've missed it because you weren't prepared for it. If you are a pro, you know your lighting conditions at all times. It would be a very very very rare case where you miss a shot because of exposure. If I am on a job, my camera is always ready. From all the big dicks I've met in this industry, I can honestly say I've never seen one shoot in anything but manual.

What exactly do these pros you speak of shoot?





A light meter is still the most accurate tool for measuring light and it will give you a correct incident reading of the light source.

Why would i set an "exposure bias" when I can just set the correct exposure in the first place?


Ps. I'm stubborn and came from a film background

This post was edited by lithfkn on Dec 14 2010 05:15pm

God damn it. The more i read this thread, the bigger of a noob i feel.

1. I still can't do manual on the fly.

2. I haven't memorized all the button placements on the camera. I blame the "light-on" button on the 5dII swapping places with the 50D.

3. I shoot Av majority of the time

Start messing with video

This is something I would really LOVE to have on my camera.

My argument relies on using the in-camera light meter. If you're using an external light meter, then I would agree with you that there's no reason not to be shooting in manual.

The pros I speak of are ones that have written articles or books that I've read. I'm not saying everyone uses the same modes, and yes I was surprised to read that people leave their camera in P when walking around a city or something like that. The light will be changing and they're not going to be adjusting settings every few steps, so it makes sense I suppose. I still don't use P mode though.

I'm sure you know how your camera works, and I didn't mean by my comment that you didn't. What I meant was that if you truly do know what your camera is doing, whether or not you're in M or Av doesn't matter because you get to the same end result. Av just happens to be faster (assuming use of the in-camera light meter).