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Post by gray1720 on Jun 3, 2024 19:23:48 GMT
I notice that Martin Bone chap gets quoted this week.
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Post by spinno on Jun 3, 2024 19:34:37 GMT
I notice that Martin Bone chap gets quoted this week. Anything interesting? Tractors, cows or butterflies? |
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Post by gray1720 on Jun 3, 2024 21:37:51 GMT
I notice that Martin Bone chap gets quoted this week. Anything interesting? Tractors, cows or butterflies? No, just poking at RAW/manual snobs. |
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Post by MJB on Jun 4, 2024 10:07:41 GMT
Infamy at last!
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Post by spinno on Jun 4, 2024 11:29:27 GMT
We've all got it in for you... |
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Post by peterob on Jun 4, 2024 14:12:43 GMT
Anything interesting? Tractors, cows or butterflies? No, just poking at RAW/manual snobs. That's not entirely fair. No poking took place. I am a bit confused about the appearance of the column "This week we asked..." because I'm sure I never saw it before or saw the question to which Martin responded. Probably comes from the web site or social media feeds. |
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Post by MJB on Jun 4, 2024 17:46:51 GMT
No, just poking at RAW/manual snobs. That's not entirely fair. No poking took place. I am a bit confused about the appearance of the column "This week we asked..." because I'm sure I never saw it before or saw the question to which Martin responded. Probably comes from the web site or social media feeds. It was asked on Facebook... ...and thank you for noticing that I qualified my comment, which was more than the "shoot in RAW" or "shoot in manual mode" proponents did. |
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Post by Chester PB on Jun 4, 2024 17:59:55 GMT
That's not entirely fair. No poking took place. I am a bit confused about the appearance of the column "This week we asked..." because I'm sure I never saw it before or saw the question to which Martin responded. Probably comes from the web site or social media feeds. It was asked on Facebook... ...and thank you for noticing that I qualified my comment, which was more than the "shoot in RAW" or "shoot in manual mode" proponents did. re. 'It was asked on Facebook...'. I suspect that merely subscribing to AP does not qualify me to participate in stuff like this. |
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Post by zou on Jun 4, 2024 20:13:01 GMT
What was the question and the response?
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Post by MJB on Jun 4, 2024 20:27:41 GMT
What was the question and the response? Q:What's the best photography advice you've ever been given? A:Ignore people who insist you have to shoot in RAW, or insist you have to shoot in full manual mode. Whilst the ability to do both is useful, neither is essential to getting good pictures. |
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Post by zou on Jun 4, 2024 20:41:26 GMT
What was the question and the response? Q:What's the best photography advice you've ever been given? A:Ignore people who insist you have to shoot in RAW, or insist you have to shoot in full manual mode. Whilst the ability to do both is useful, neither is essential to getting good pictures. Spot on. Shame nobody told you how to shoot hobbies with a macro setup.  |
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Post by donerundlecams on Jun 5, 2024 4:02:38 GMT
What was the question and the response? Q:What's the best photography advice you've ever been given? A:Ignore people who insist you have to shoot in RAW, or insist you have to shoot in full manual mode. Whilst the ability to do both is useful, neither is essential to getting good pictures. Exactly, Martin, RAW sucks and JPEG's Rock  and I would have to take issue when I took this snap with my Pentax MX and Pentax 200/2.5 ....... Cheers, Jack ...  |
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Post by Chester PB on Jun 5, 2024 15:45:16 GMT
What was the question and the response? Q:What's the best photography advice you've ever been given? A:Ignore people who insist you have to shoot in RAW, or insist you have to shoot in full manual mode. Whilst the ability to do both is useful, neither is essential to getting good pictures. Arguably the best way to learn the basics is to use manual mode and experiment. The knowledge and experience gained will then help you use automated modes with an understanding of what they do. Personally, after trying various automated exposure modes, the only one I ever use is 'auto ISO' because I want to choose the shutter speed and lens aperture, understanding what adjusting them will do to the image. If the ISO is too high for the image quality I want, I then use my experience to compromise on shutter speed and/or lens aperture knowing what the effect of this compromise will be. I believe the the RAW/JPG choice depends on how much (if any) adjustment you want to make after taking the shot. I once shot dozens of landscape shots in the Lake District with the camera body's JPG output set to 'tungsten' light because I forgot to change it back to 'daylight' after taking some shots in a room lit by 'warm' LED bulbs the day before. Creating new JPGs was easy because of the accurate colour temperature adjustment possible with RAW files, and more reliable than trying to 'correct' JPG files. Apart form this occasion, I usually only need to use the RAW file if I am preparing an image for printing and want more control of image sharpening (often only applying it to a selected area of the image). |
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Post by zou on Jun 5, 2024 15:58:20 GMT
It's not what I did (I deliberately bought a manual focus fully manual SLR) but I reckon the 'best' way to learn for many would be P mode and adjust as you learn. More likely to get decent images along the way.
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Post by geoffr on Jun 5, 2024 17:25:19 GMT
It's not what I did (I deliberately bought a manual focus fully manual SLR) but I reckon the 'best' way to learn for many would be P mode and adjust as you learn. More likely to get decent images along the way. Not much option but to use manual in the early ‘70s when I got my first SLR. |
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and I would have to take issue when I took this snap with my Pentax MX and Pentax 200/2.5 