[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, people like surveys and I've never done one.Depends on what I'm carrying. I usually default to the lowest common denominator of
At the recent John Shaw Photography weekend I went to I was surprised to learn he now shoots all the time with aperture priority -- since he switched to digital. He uses a histogram to double-check metering. Evidentially a lot of pros shooting digital now shoot aperture priority.
This felt good to know since I have changed from doing manual exposure to Av (or Tv) since I switched to digital. Some, of course, did Av or Tv before switching, or have always done one or the other.
So here's the survey, and to make it more accurate, sorry, there has to be two questions. Actually, three, with one optional.
I know one answer surveys are best, but I think a lot of us would be interested in the answers. No joking, snappy, answers, please. Serious survey. ;-)
1. How do you do exposure most of the time? Av or Tv or manual (doing it yourself)?
Aperture Preferred metering or M. (I hate Tv and Av Pentax invented this terminology just to be different).
If I'm carrying an MX then I use M even if I have an other body that is capable Aperture Preferred.
I do this primarily to not forget what I'm doing when I switch bodies.
The only exception to this is when I'm carrying the *ist-D or ME. The ME because it doesn't have a manual mode, (I usually carry it alone as a pocket camera in any event), and the *ist-D which has a user interface that is very different in detail from the ZX-5n/MZ3 LX and MX interfaces. Still since I have a large number of M/K and non A 3rd party lenses I use the *ist-D in manual mode much of the time, otherwise aperture preferred.
Both, though the film use has fallen off considerably since the *ist-D arrived.2. Do you shoot digital or film?
Not really, the only difference it has made is that I'd not used slide film in quite some time so I've been more careful about over exposure than I had to be when shooting negatives.Optional --
3. If you shoot digital, have you changed how you do exposure since switching from film?
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
--P.J. O'Rourke
