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<blockquote data-quote="JDFlood" data-source="post: 348091" data-attributes="member: 11653"><p>Personally I think a significant percentage of &quot;serious&quot; photographers that own a D800 are still using them like a Nikon from the '70s or '80s. I mentioned using the very sophisticated automation and everyone turns their nose up at me and says, &quot;well if you have so much money to throw around, who am I to criticize you wasting the camera.&quot; When in fact, they are not using the strength and automation that has been painstakingly developed. To use a modern camera, you set the auto stuff before a shoot, and then only need to keep an eye open for sometime that might exceed the parameters you set. So, if I go into the dark forest, I might set auto ISO to 800 and shoot P, multi point focus. Since still shots. For birds in a medium bright day, turn on auto tracking and minimum shutter speed 250. Or close ups, ISO 200, A at f22' multi point focus.&nbsp; Nearly always - EV 2/3. Then shoot, don't pay any attention to the settings other then getting outside the range. The exposure objective is to come as close to blowing out the highlights without doing so, not optimizing the exposure ( unless for some silly reason you are only shooting Jpegs) for viewing. So, if you are an amateur trying to take really good photos, you want to let go of manually adjusting anything, unless you get beyond the abilities of the automation and that is getting harder and harder. If you let the camera do what it was designed to do, it will take astonishing photos if you can compose them.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="JDFlood, post: 348091, member: 11653"] Personally I think a significant percentage of "serious" photographers that own a D800 are still using them like a Nikon from the '70s or '80s. I mentioned using the very sophisticated automation and everyone turns their nose up at me and says, "well if you have so much money to throw around, who am I to criticize you wasting the camera." When in fact, they are not using the strength and automation that has been painstakingly developed. To use a modern camera, you set the auto stuff before a shoot, and then only need to keep an eye open for sometime that might exceed the parameters you set. So, if I go into the dark forest, I might set auto ISO to 800 and shoot P, multi point focus. Since still shots. For birds in a medium bright day, turn on auto tracking and minimum shutter speed 250. Or close ups, ISO 200, A at f22' multi point focus. Nearly always - EV 2/3. Then shoot, don't pay any attention to the settings other then getting outside the range. The exposure objective is to come as close to blowing out the highlights without doing so, not optimizing the exposure ( unless for some silly reason you are only shooting Jpegs) for viewing. So, if you are an amateur trying to take really good photos, you want to let go of manually adjusting anything, unless you get beyond the abilities of the automation and that is getting harder and harder. If you let the camera do what it was designed to do, it will take astonishing photos if you can compose them. [/QUOTE]

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