I may as well weigh in...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. How do you do exposure most of the time? Av or Tv or manual (doing it yourself)?
Casual shooting I primarily do in 'P' program mode on both my *istDS and my ZX-5n. Why? Because at a moment's notice I may hand the camera off to my wife. She's not all that proficient with things like shutter speed, aperture, ISO, exposure compenation, AF zones, and so on. Yet I like to encourage her interest, and for now that means keeping it relatively simple when she's with me.
When it comes to a little more demanding situations, I'll switch to Av when I need control over DOF or to fine-tune the flash's reach, or to Tv when I need to guarantee higher shutter speeds because of lens focal length, tricky lighting, or subject movement. Manual comes into play only occasionally; usually I'll resort to Av and +/-EV compensation instead of dropping down into manual.
2. Do you shoot digital or film?
Both, but lately primarily digital. I have an *ist-DS and a ZX-5n. I've taken many more shots overall with my ZX-5n, but it won't take long for the *ist-DS to catch up since I seem to use it more than I ever used my film cameras.
3. If you shoot digital, have you changed how you do exposure since switching from film?
The only change I've made is that of using a greater degree of caution with regards to avoiding overexposure. As has already been stated, overexposure leads to burned out shots, and so I am a lot more careful now than I ever was before to ensure this doesn't happen. With print film there's a degree of latitude before an exposure becomes uselessly overexposed, but with digital that latitude seems significantly narrower. For that reason I find myself using -.5 and -1 EV settings a lot more than I did with my film camera.
Dave
