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<blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 149374" data-attributes="member: 6277">Auto ISO does have its place. You can not just take a arbitrary reading that someone else uses and expect it to work for you in all situations. Each and every time you go out and shoot it will be different. Yesterday afternoon I was doing some shooting for my wife at a softball game. I knew that it would be changing lighting throughout the game and I would only be shooting the first part of the game and then handing the camera over to my wife for the rest. Shooting with a 55-200 zoom and lots of fast movement I knew I did not want to shoot under 1/250 of a second and I would like to keep the F Stop somewhere near the middle so I set the min shutter speed at 1/250 and it on Program and ISO at 400 with the max at 1000 most of the shots were at ISO 640 and I got great shots. I had never set the camera like this before and probably never will again BUT it worked for me this time. You have to learn what all the setting do and how they interact and what you need by walking into a shoot and looking at it. Shoot a couple of shots to get some readings and go from there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Kuykendall_RIP, post: 149374, member: 6277"] Auto ISO does have its place. You can not just take a arbitrary reading that someone else uses and expect it to work for you in all situations. Each and every time you go out and shoot it will be different. Yesterday afternoon I was doing some shooting for my wife at a softball game. I knew that it would be changing lighting throughout the game and I would only be shooting the first part of the game and then handing the camera over to my wife for the rest. Shooting with a 55-200 zoom and lots of fast movement I knew I did not want to shoot under 1/250 of a second and I would like to keep the F Stop somewhere near the middle so I set the min shutter speed at 1/250 and it on Program and ISO at 400 with the max at 1000 most of the shots were at ISO 640 and I got great shots. I had never set the camera like this before and probably never will again BUT it worked for me this time. You have to learn what all the setting do and how they interact and what you need by walking into a shoot and looking at it. Shoot a couple of shots to get some readings and go from there. [/QUOTE]

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