Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is not useless at all to have the camera on aperture priority and auto ISO. What happens then is that as long as the light is enough to shoot above the minimum shutter speed at the aperture you have chosen at base ISO, the camera will use use that ISO. Once the slowest shutter speed has been reached, the camera starts increasing ISO. And the configuration of maximum ISO and slowest shutter speed you will accept is extremely useful, as it allows you to decide how you wish to trade off possible camera shake for image deterioration due to high ISO. It is the ability of the Fuji camera to set the slowest acceptable shutter speed that has driven me (and others) to set both aperture and shutter speed manually. Cheers, Nathan On 1 Aug 2013, at 01:17, Herbert Kanner wrote: > I have to follow up on this, at least for M9 owners. Both the Leica M9 > manual and the firmware in the camera seem to imply that Auto ISO was > intended for use with the shutter control in A (aperture preferred > position). This I base on the menu settings in which you can specify the > highest acceptable ISO and the slowest acceptable shutter speed. As stated > in a previous email, I found this configuration to be virtually useless. > > The use I did find was either not intended, or not implied by either the > manual nor the firmware style: I set the shutter speed to 1/250 and took a > series of shots at progressive f stops. On chimping the result, I saw the > ISO climbing and the set of pictures looking pretty much the same. So for > all practical purposes, it is picking "shutter speed preferred". > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > > On Jul 31, 2013, at 4:06 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: > >> I now admit to terminal stupidity. Auto ISO makes sense on M's when a >> shutter speed has been selected, not when Aperture Preferred is set. With >> a chosen shutter speed, it in effect becomes "shutter speed preferred". >> >> Herbert Kanner >> kanner at acm.org >> 650-326-8204 >> >> Question authority and the authorities will question you. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.nathansmusings.eu/