When I first started shooting, it was with a "Baby Brownie" when I was 7 or 8 years old. Used full program on that one. ;-) As I recall now, from the time I was given my first 35mm I've used the smallest aperture 'practical'. Mostly hand held stuff in good light. In my teens, my semi-pro father taught me to think aperture priority and I consider it to have been a great favor.
Jack --- Fernando Terrazzino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Funny, I find myself using AV most of the time (now that I have a DS, > kinda > hard trying with the K1000 : D ). And I think the logic behind that > should > be that the "artistic" decisions that I make often have to do with > DOF > rather than freezing motion. So I guess my pattern is: > AV - Default > TV - If using telephoto or want to freeze motion > M - Low light > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Reply-To: [email protected] > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Survey Results: How do you do exposure? > >Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:02:43 EST > > > >I took a survey on exposure starting 3/2/2005 and have several times > since > >promised the results. Recently I've been going through my AOL email > inbox, > >trying to whittle down the 45,000+ PDML messages in it, and came > across the > >survey. > >I printed out all the responses and did a rough tally. So here the > >results... > >finally! > > > >I am dyslexic, and this means I have a lousy time sense. Not for > hours in > >the > >day, but for days in the week, weeks in the month, and months in the > year. > >Anyway, that's my story about why the results are so late, and I am > >sticking to > >it. :-) > > > >Before the survey I had recently attended a John Shaw weekend, then > a > >George > >Lepp weekend and was surprised to find both use Av (Aperture > Priority) most > >of > >the time. Coming from using the K-1000 and then the ZX-5n, I was > still > >doing > >exposure all manually. After this survey I switched to Av on my DSLR > and my > >pictures improved (quite a bit). > > > >I could glean interesting tid bits from the results, but I am going > to go > >with the broad results. Since people answered differently it's a bit > hard > >to > >tally, but here goes. > > > >And, actually, it was more fun to read at the time, than see any > results. > >But > >they may be semi-interesting... > > > >======== > >The questions were: > > > >1. How do you do exposure most of the time? Av or Tv or manual > (doing it > >yourself)? > > > >2. Do you shoot digital or film? > > > >Optional -- > > > >3. If you shoot digital, have you changed how you do exposure since > >switching > >from film? > > > >======== > >Numbers may be off by 1 (or 2) either way. > > > >41 responded to the survey itself (I am discounting the chatter. > :-)). > > > >One or more have since left the list and several or more have since > >switched > >to shooting mainly digital. > > > >Of that 41... > > > >17 were still shooting either all film, or mainly film. > >24 were shooting either all digital, or mainly digital. > > > >Av was the clear winner. > > > >25 were shooting using Av most of the time. > >Exceptions were given for using Tv for long glass, night > photography, > >flash, > >and sports/action. Exceptions were given for using manual for tricky > > >lighting > >and close ups. > > > >7 were shooting manual all of the time or most of the time. > >They were all film camera users. Many had cameras that would only > let them > >do > >manual. > > > >8 were doing some combination, broken down into percentages. > >Closer to 60%/50% for Av and 50% Tv or manual. Others in the 25 I > have > >mentioned above may have broken it down into percentages too, but > they were > >shooting > >over 80% (usually over 90%) Av. > > > >Many in this group mentioned Hyperprogram. So they were both film > and > >digital > >shooters or were shooting both. And sometimes they were mentioning > using > >one > >mode or another based on which film or digital camera they were > using at > >the > >time. > > > >1 used mainly Tv. He was shooting mainly digital. > > > >Of the 24 mainly digital responders, 14 said no, they had not > changed the > >way > >they did exposure since switching to digital. > > > >HOWEVER -- this is where I am going to throw in my own conclusions > :-) -- > >many qualified their nos. > > > >How? Lots had used handheld meters of one kind or another when they > >shooting > >film. Many mentioned they no longer used them, the in camera meter > was > >accurate. That they relied on it. Several mentioned matrix metering > in > >particular. > > > >Another qualification was many mentioned being aware of being more > cautious > >about overexposure. Paying attention to settings to not to have > blown > >highlights and/or using exposure compensation (one or more mentioned > > >referring to the > >histogram). > > > >So, despite the fact that those 14 thought there had been no change, > in > >reading them over, I got the distinct impression they was more of a > change > >than > >they may have realized. Not for everyone, of course, but for some. > And > >maybe not > >that big a change, but a change. > > > >Anyway, that's the basic results. > > > >The thread went off to discuss Hyperprogram (and differences between > it and > >Hypermanual) and how Pentax is/was great for coming up with that. > (Don't > >ask > >me, I've haven't used either.) > > > >Results of another survey coming soon. > > > >Or maybe not. That time sense thing. ;-) > > > >Later, Marnie aka Doe > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Scan and help eliminate destructive viruses from your inbound and > outbound > e-mail and attachments. > http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines > > Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN® Premium right now and get > the > first two months FREE*. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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