Don Kuykendall_RIP
RIP :(
So the Scenes don't vary shutter speed and aperture?
From my understanding some of the modes do. Like sports goes with a higher shutter speed and macro goes with a higher Aperture.
So the Scenes don't vary shutter speed and aperture?
So the Scenes don't vary shutter speed and aperture?
Now I have a challenge for all the ones posting in the thread. Pick a scene mode this week and shoot at least one photo using it and post here with the EXiF data and see if it did anything out of the norm. Shoot the same shot in AUTO and PROGRAM and note the differences. If it works reasonably well it would be a good learning lesson for the newbies Ween them off of auto and a step to the other modes like A and S and M
Switch from AUTO to, say, Landscape, all it does is change the Picture Control to Landscape. Nothing more.
ETA: I had to spend some time looking it up, but here's the chart I made back when I had my D7000:
Sparky, did you learn by using these program modes? Or...I just gotta say it...did you just have too much time on your hands? :beguiled: Figuring all of this out must have taken a great deal of time. In all seriousness, it's a good resource for newbies to help learn HOW and WHY certain settings work on DSLR's. Thanks for sharing.
My take on these scene modes is that they are purely a selling tool. It's a way to get new folks into Nikon DSLR cameras. The sales pitch is you don't need to learn anything, there is a mode for whatever you want.
The fact that those modes are there has never bothered me. I never used them. The cameras with those modes are fine picture machines & can do a lot more than those modes suggest.
No idea why the OP was bothered so much??? He obviously doesn't know the secret, P mode is for professional results. I'm done here, have to get on with life.