Don Kuykendall_RIP
RIP :(
From my understanding some of the modes do. Like sports goes with a higher shutter speed and macro goes with a higher Aperture.
irritating Picture modes on Cheaper DSLR's
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From my understanding some of the modes do. Like sports goes with a higher shutter speed and macro goes with a higher Aperture.
Don Kuykendall_RIP
RIP :(
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
Dawg Pics
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They do things like turn off flash, change focus areas, and chooses a lower shutter, higher aperture, etc. I would have to play with my D80 to see what all is happening.
Dawg Pics
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I was just thinking I need to try some test shots to see what happens in different light for the same mode. Sounds like a project.
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.
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.
I wanted to know exactly what those modes did, so I just set the camera down on the desk, took a shot with each mode, then loaded them onto the computer and studied the EXIF data for each. I was surprised how little each one actually did. I was expecting more changes, and much more aggressive changes.
It took far longer to make up the chart than it did to extract the data.
Keep in mind, this is for a D7000. Other models may have different changes.
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.
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.
Even I never use them. I wonder why OP had such a reaction, as there are always modes and features in most of electronic devices that are rarely used, but that never prevented the buyers from getting them or being irritated to this extent. As far as I am concerned, I can figure out only a few functions in today's remote controls, I use what I can figure out and ignore the other (hundred ???) options.
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.
Actually, the real secret is..........................
................if you don't like them, don't use them............................
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