Hello Fred, The only one on Godfrey's list that seemed like you might want to think more about is Noise Reduction. It actually doesn't kick in until the shutter speed gets below a certain point. The general reason to have it on is so that the thermal noise from the sensor is removed from the image by means of a second 'dark' exposure. Saves a massive amount of cleanup in some cases. The reason to have it set to off is that when shooting slow shutter speeds, the dark frame subtraction takes twice as long per frame as it has to take another image for the same length of time. So a 30 second exposure will take 60 seconds before you can shoot again. It is an easy setting to forget about until it is too late, so I leave mine on because mostly I want it on.
-- Best regards, Bruce Tuesday, August 30, 2005, 4:38:32 AM, you wrote: >> Those are all the settings which I've made, as different from the >> defaults. I didn't see the point of listing all the default settings; >> they are clearly listed in the instruction booklet starting on page 174. F> Thanks, Godfrey. You therefore provided exactly what I was looking for - a F> list of non-default settings to consider and then likely at least mostly F> implement almost right from the start. Thanks again. F> C'mon FedEx, c'mon FedEx... <g> F> Fred
