What mode do you shoot in?

[Louloubelle]

all types of modes depending on conditions, what i'm shooting etc

same as me, except I'm in the process of learning / experimenting with them all

 

[Firky]

A sheet of clean white photocopy paper will give you a white. For metering purposes a bit of grass or a standard dry tarmac road will give you an 18% reflectance grey as near as dammit. You could of course buy a Kodak grey card which has a white back, assuming these are still on sale in the days of digital cameras. You can use a sheet of white paper (or the white back of a Kodak grey card) in low light conditions to give you a reading if your meter is not sensitive enough. This then needs to be increased by 3 stops more exposure to get a standard reading.

Grass, really?

I tend to use the pavement if it is dry or hubcaps! There's always a car with grey plastic hubcaps knocking around.

 

[subversplat]

"Flash off" or, if it's a bit dark, "Flash on"

 

[mauvais]

Grass, really?

I tend to use the pavement if it is dry or hubcaps! There's always a car with grey plastic hubcaps knocking around.

Sunlit grass definitely works for IR, but I'd always assumed it was different for normal photography. Maybe not.

 

[Firky]

*strokes chin*

Grass, eh?

I Reckon the bloke is crazy in the coconut.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Well try it and see, it will only take you a couple of minutes, there is a greater area of grass than grey hubcaps in London.

The other one that may surprise you is that you can get a similar grey equivalent tone by pointing the lens straight up into the sky above your head on a day when the sky is completely cloudless. As this only happens in the UK about twice a year it is of less use.

 

[camouflage]

Mostly full auto, so I don't have to fuddle about when I see an interesting shot, but I also try with Program and Aperature settings when I want more of a lighting effect or if it's abit dark (I don't like to use the flash). Macro if it's a flower or something.

 

[hedache]

almost always A, usually with the largest available aperture. i use exposure lock and compensation a fair bit.

at night i'll sometimes use M.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Usually aperture priority - again because I like being in control of the dof. I dabbled with shutter priority once, but didn't find it useful.

With my FMS and K1000 I have no choice but shoot manual. I like it enough, but often find I could really do with aperture priority. For example, I strangely decided to take my FM2 to the rally in Manchester a few weeks ago rather than my D50 and missed a load of shots coz I was fiddling around with aperture and shutter speed, then focusing ... *sigh*

I'd like an F3

 

[ICB]

Mostly P with auto-focus, to react quickly beause I'm mostly trying to shoot my three kids looking natural, and because I'm very new to using an SLR.

Will start messing around with different settings soon though.

*goes away to google depth of field*