Larry, you shoot such a variety of stuff in many different scenarios so
I am quite sure making use of stored user modes (& tweaking them from
time-to-time) is the answer.
Many years ago I used a H/H meter & Sunny-16 quite successfully. The ME
Super coaxed me into AV mode which I still mostly use. The K7 had TAV
but it was only useful in bright light because the ISO had to be kept
below 800. The K5 is much better & I now use TAV H/H at 400-500mm. Jack
Davis had a standard formula using TAV (f-8 &1/2000sec) with his K3 &
D-FA 150-450. So, no need to save my settings.
Alan C
On 03-Mar-21 12:38 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
I have the feeling that the programmable user modes are likely one of the most
useful features that I have never utilized. It seems that the premise is
that there are certain setups that people use over and over, and you can pre
program them so you only have to turn one dial rather than going through and
setting several different things.
I don’t know whether I just shoot in too many different situations to have
standard setups, or I’m not smart enough to figure out what my several most
common setups are.
The things I will change are:
exposure:
In low light TAv, set the minimum shutter speed and aperture I can get away
with and take whatever ISO I get.
In bright light, Av at ISO 100-400, and let it boost the shutter speed so it
doesn’t blow out the highlights
In some situations manual exposure works best (strobes, night photography,
weird lighting)
In wonky dynamic range situations, I’ll bracket, usually nominal and -2 stops
to make sure that one exposure doesn’t blow out the highlights. I prefer to
bracket with Av rather than TAv.
Whitebalance:
I don’t worry overmuch about that because I fix things in post, but I will try
to get it close in camera.
I think that I might just come at photography from an all manual background and
only begrudgingly admit that there are cases where the $3 microprocessor in the
camera is smarter than I am. I am forced to admit that there are a lot of
times when it comes to focusing that it has better vision than I do.
How do you folks deal with the various modes on your Pentax DSLRs? Are there
any features that you consider super handy? Are there any that you think might
be very handy if you got off your butt and learned out how to make use of them?
Or do you carry around a spot meter, manually meter, manually focus, and are
still tempted to use bulb and manually do the shutter speed as well?
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