Valid question. I have answered it once, but I'll do so again as it
is easy to miss because of the volume of the list.
This kind of terrain has lots of shadows and light areas. Depending
on the lens used, DOF desired and subject, I was switching the ISO
back and forth quite often. Sometimes I forgot to switch it. My
experience with the D is that the difference in image quality between
200 and 400 is very negligable, not like film 200 and 400. So my
concern wasn't as high as if I had been shooting 800 or faster.
Hope this explanation helps.
OK... that's about my own reasoning as well. Unless I forget to
turn it back to 200 after the presumed good reason to have it cranked up
higher, it's always at 200. I've got my ISO warning set so that it
indicates anything other than 200. Unfortunately, I often don't notice
the warning.
One shot I'm kicking myself on is from my trip to Southeast Alaska
a few weeks ago. Anchored up fishing and caught a bunch of whales
bubble-feeding. The first few spectacular moment shots were at ISO800
from the previous night.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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