Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chris I have plenty of all manual cameras which allow me to shoot all manual. I get all my all manual cravings out when I shoot with them. when I shoot with a camera which has an A setting I sure don't have them set on M much. I think manual is preferred good for some stuff and not A settings. Tripod work for instance. Shooting with studio strobes on a backdrop hand held or tripod. Shooting time exposures in low light I turn off my auto iso. Do you do a lot of all manual work on weddings or other fast breaking situations? I take advantage of the auto features of my camera like most of the photographers I've met so I'm paying more attention to my subjects and less on turning dials. I'm fully aware of the "control" manual shooting gives me as I've shot it all that way earlier on plenty of times. I cant think of a photographer using a modern camera with auto features who is street shooting and disabling those features and shooting all manual. Austerity is the key to great pix. Say it ain't so. It ain't. We must suffer to be great. No we don't. I think its dumb to think we should never use those features as lots of people who are pretty clueless think they're acting like big time photographers when they shoot all manual. I think very few photogs shoot all manual if they are shooting fast breaking situations. Why would they its crazy and its not 1965. By the way all the weddings I shot I shot all manual with a Hasselblad all manual Norman 200C flash on 500c body with all manual focusing and I had a hand held meter somewhere. I had f 16 at 5 feet and I shot most of it at 5 feet. I didn't need a Laser Distance Measurer to be able to run up to some people till I got 5 feet from them. or a rangefinder. I pre tested every distance with that flash and had a chart glued to the back of the flash in case I forgot. But it was basic inverse square law for the most part. But if I have a camera with an A setting I'm certainly not going to ignore that for most stuff. I love a camera which sets a shutter speed or aperture for me. Or both. Or a TTL auto flash. So I can stay on top of it the best I can but when things are happening fast I'm paying more attention to framing and focusing and not falling over something. I'm against dumbing down and slowing down finely tuned machines which are designed for speed. On 1/5/15 3:40 AM, "Chris Crawford" <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > Mark, > > Are you saying that shooting in manual mode is dumb? -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/