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The future of digital cameras
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This is not true. Phones do have burst mode for such situations. This one was captured using burst mode.
Agree that a phone will struggle with movement. But my camera doesn’t have a sports mode. You just select shutter priority, a higher ISO and continuous high.
Easy enough to learn. I’ve only been shooting with a DSLR for a few years. I use manual exposure 99% of the time. Helps you slow down and understand what each of those things I just mentioned actually does.
Everything is hard until you practice it. Then it gets easy.
Except parachuting.
Where the old adage applies
If at first you don’t succeed, then you’re dead!
You don't need an SLR to shoot in manual modes. An iPhone can do with this with the Lightroom app. It's something everyone who is interested in photography should explore. Your photos will improve when you learn how to operate your equipment.
Good news. Your camera has an M mode. That means manual so you can actually learn the exposure triangle on your camera.
Uh-oh..... Looks to me as though we're seeing that same old pattern: the cycle is starting up again...... and around and around people will go trying to convince the OP to actually take a crack at learning something about his camera and about photography. Might as well bash heads against a brick wall for all the good it's been doing, eh?
Unfortunately, I think it's pretty clear that the OP is perfectly happy with Auto or Program mode and all the various scene modes and probably just doesn't want to learn anything seemingly more complicated than that. Maybe he is incapable of learning the necessary skills -- we actually don't know. Why he has started all these various threads in the Digital Photography subforum we don't know, either, as he doesn't seem to be benefiting from answers and responses he has received in any of them.
Whatever.....
Unfortunately, I think it's pretty clear that the OP is perfectly happy with Auto or Program mode and all the various scene modes and probably just doesn't want to learn anything seemingly more complicated than that. Maybe he is incapable of learning the necessary skills -- we actually don't know. Why he has started all these various threads in the Digital Photography subforum we don't know, either, as he doesn't seem to be benefiting from answers and responses he has received in any of them.
Whatever.....
Yet you've traveled to Alaska this spring and will be going to California this summer..... ??
I am learning my camera. Finished reading the manual the other day.
Well done. Experiment with some of the different exposure modes in your garden. Costs nothing, but you’ll understand your equipment better for when you are at the important event or location.
Does anyone have the feeling that this thread just restarted?
In any case, as said actually being able to access exposure, focus, and shooting speed settings is far more useful and flexible than a generic "action" mode that means what the camera maker thinks it should mean.
In any case, as said actually being able to access exposure, focus, and shooting speed settings is far more useful and flexible than a generic "action" mode that means what the camera maker thinks it should mean.
Don’t have a garden. But will be going to the zoo this weekend for some shots.
garden = trees = rocks = food = flowers = pencils = glass of water = electronics = whatever is in front of you
practice so that when you go to the zoo you make the best images you can. that way you are making the images and not the camera deciding for you.
What in the name of toad is this conversation even about? What did I wander into? ?
Good idea. I just took 2 shots of my digital voice recorder in the P mode which is not auto mode. I am charging my battery know of my powershot.
Good! But just a slight correction: P mode, which stands for program, is an auto mode. For PASM, P is auto, A and S are semi-manual, and M is manual.
"P" mode, even though I never use it, is still a good step, though.
Generally it still gives you control over flash, exposure compensation, the exact shutter speed/aperture combination you want, and if you turn off auto ISO will let you control that.
When I've played with the "scene" modes in the past, they basically over-ride all of this for you and don't let you do things like turn off the flash if the camera thinks you need it.
I could have used the manual mode. But I used a mode that let me shoot in macro mode which probably is available in manual as well. I wish this camera had super macro mode.
Or, according to Ken Rockwell, P for “Professional” mode! I do actually tend to use P a lot, especially on my P&S. It’s the mode it sits in all the time, so if I see something cool I want to shoot quickly I don’t have to mess around with settings. If I want something specific I’ll either use Av or Tv (or occasionally M if there’s something really specific), but then if I remember set it back to P before putting it away. The mirrorless tends to just stay on Av 99% of the time.