Hi Shel - responses interspersed
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
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From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I don't see it that way, but then I'm not constantly fiddling around with
the settings.
Actually, if left on Auto, white balance never needs to be touched, and
even if it's set to the "wrong" balance, it's a simple movement of a
slider
in ACR (and, I suppose, other RAW converters) to bring the WB where it
needs to be.
Generally speaking, you are perfectly right - I do seldom take the WB off
auto. I think I might have changed it a couple of times when I was getting
a colour cast in mixed lighting, to favour the dominant source. Hong Kong
airport interiors was an example, with both tungsten, fluorescent and halide
lighting in shot!
Metering is a personal thing, but, speaking for myself, I rarely change
the
metering mode, and will only use spot or center-weighted anyway. While I
can understand wanting to change the metering mode, it's hard for me, with
my experience and shooting style, to understand why one would want to
change it frequently. How often do you change the metering mode, John,
and
under what circumstances?
I will vary between all three modes dependent upon my assessment of the
areas I want to place as mid-greys (or the colour wquivalent thereof!), just
as I will adjust the bracketing and/or exposure compensation, based on
experience or results obtained.
BTW, if you've not spent some time ~using~ the DS/2, it's understandable
that you'd think using the menu system to make those changes is time
consuming or difficult. Once the camera became familiar to me, making
those changes was easy and quick.
I appreciate that that is true for you Shel - I would find it a pain to have
to go into the menu for something which may affect my ability to get the
shot that I want. I have the three configuration sets set up the way that I
like it, and having to do more than switch between sets is not something I
feel I would like to do too often.
I guess the bottom line is that YMMV!
Shel
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From: John Coyle
What Mark said, in spades! And I would just add that the burying of
control
features such as white balance and spot metering in the menu system in
the
DS/DL variants was a big mistake, IMO. I modify these settings
frequently
enough so that it would be a real PITA to have to work through the menu.
