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Subject: [Leica] FF sidewalk flower pot f 1/125 s at f/8.0 and be there
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 10:39:38 +0530
References: <CDD814E4.B0C5%mark@rabinergroup.com> <C94022D1-03BE-4A8B-B3AD-153E72AD7041@comcast.net>

I have been using Auto ISO, Auto Focusing but manual exposure on my Fujis
from day one. I do not like Fuji's application of Aperture Priority Auto
Exposure, and you cannot set a minimum shutter speed on Auto ISO.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at 
comcast.net>wrote:

> What's so cool about this is that it give you a way to set a minimum
> shutter speed on the X Pro-1, something not otherwise possible, and with
> manual focus lenses you can zone focus in bright light, too, and still know
> you will get good exposures.
>
> Now, if there was only some way to lock focus magnification on in the
> Fuji, then you could use the EVF for focus and an external optical finder
> for framing.  It would be like shooting with a IIIg.  This only applies to
> Leica lenses, though.  With the Fuji's it still makes sense to me go auto
> focus.
>
> I've only used auto-ISO rarely, but with the good high-ISO performance of
> many cameras demonstrated, I think I will use it routinely now since I know
> I can establish a minimum shutter speed.
>
> Dick
>
>
>
> On Jun 07, 2013, at 10:53 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
> > Great post Mark!
> >
> > Richard for most of my shooting for many years now I use the A setting
> with
> > auto iso. So I'm picking the f stop. Though I am Deciding with an
> additianl
> > setting on the menu which shutter speed the camera should use until  it
> gets
> > too dark then it uses slower ones.
> >
> > But "locking in" both the f stop and the shutter shutter speed with the
> "M"
> > setting can make me feel like I have more control.
> > Each camera has their auto iso parameters work differently I understand.
> >
> >
> > On 6/7/13 10:47 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The auto iso for me is the main reason to use digital.
> >> Also the auto iso forces  you to become familiar with your whole range
> of so
> >> settings and the results they produce. In my case 64,000 is the highest
> range
> >> the auto iso will give you you'd have to turn off auto iso to get
> higher but I
> >> simply never do that. But I do learn that 64,000 on my D700 looks like
> iso 400
> >> color neg. better than iso 800 color neg. and that was pretty darned
> usable or
> >> is in the present tense.
> >>
> >> When you buy lots of cameras  nowadays the auto iso is as a default
> turned on.
> >> And of course its in the M0 and I'm sure the new M's.
> >> Question is it is in the S?
> >> Would hate to make an S outa myself and guess.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 6/7/13 5:42 PM, "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor at comcast.net> 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Mark - You are a genius!  I just tried this method with my X Pro-1.
>  It being
> >>> a dark and dismal day up here, I couldn't use f8 @ 1/125th but f2.8 at
> 1/30th
> >>> with Auto ISO 6400 gave me a half dozen perfectly exposed shots taken
> around
> >>> the house and out the windows with the ISO varying from 500 to 6400.
> >>> Fantastic!
> >>>
> >>> I was using my 28 Summicron with the Fuji adapter.
> >>>
> >>> I'm going to start using this trick for grab shots indoors and out.
>  Outdoors
> >>> f8 at 1/125th it will be.
> >>>
> >>> Dick
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jun 07, 2013, at 3:39 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/fridayflowers/130606_065203.jpg.h
> >>>> tml
> >>>> Or
> >>>> http://tinyurl.com/lbpwzsp
> >>>>
> >>>> 130606_065203
> >>>> 6/6/13, 6:52:23 AM sidewalk flower pot Upper West Side,
> >>>> NIKON D700, 60.0 mm f/2.8 micro Nikkor D lens,
> >>>> 1/125 s at f/8.0 @ iso 1100. Subject distance: 3.0 M.
> >>>>
> >>>> For most of this week I locked in my camera at the M setting which I
> don't
> >>>> use all that much at 125th at f8. But its growing on me.
> >>>> M really is not full  "Manual" because the iso is changing in the
> light to
> >>>> match that setting.
> >>>> In that instance in Cloudy Bright it picked iso 11oo to match up with
> the
> >>>> 1/125 s at f/8.0 setting.
> >>>> Its like dying and going to heaven. Dream come true.
> >>>>
> >>>> I think if I'd had it on P for program mode we'd be reading the fine
> print
> >>>> on that white square thing on the right right behind the flowers.
> >>>> Which I'm 50 50 on.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Mark William Rabiner
> >>>> Photography
> >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mark William Rabiner
> > Photography
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> >
> >
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In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] FF sidewalk flower pot f 1/125 s at f/8.0 and be there)
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