"A combination of both shutter and aperture priority modes"?Originally Posted by Joel Eade
I'm not quite sure whether you are just giving this feature a different formulation, or whether I didn't explain the feature well enough for it to be fully understood.
It's just a shortcut that, for every click of one wheel in one direction, automatically does a click of the other wheel in the other direction, so that you keep the same exposure...
That sounds an awful lot like...P Mode. In P mode, rotating the main dial reciprocally adjusts shutter speed and aperture.
You could assign mode change to M.Fn, and restrict modes to just M and P, and that would get you there (as a 'bonus' you get EC with the quick dial in P).
It does? Seems that I haven't used P-Mode in a while :-)
I would still want the initial exposure to be selected manually, however when I switch from M to P the current exposure settings aren't copied, I'm back in automatic exposure land!
Frankly, it's just too complicated for me. I think you need to decide if you want manual exposure or not. If you do, IT'S MANUAL. If not, IT'S (possibly SEMI-)AUTOMATIC. Of course AE is useless in M...unless you turn a wheel, the exposure is already locked.
How are you arriving at this initial manual exposure that you want to lock? Are you making a rough guess, then taking a shot, and reviewing it on the screen w/ histogram? Are you relying on the camera's meter and watching the triangle in the viewfinder? Honestly you might want to try P with exposure compensation, then spin the little wheel to adjust your aperture/shutter pair.
We're a Canon/Profoto family: five cameras, sixteen lenses, fifteen Profoto lights, too many modifiers.
I think I get it.....the exposure stays constant or "locked"
When you change shutter speed the f-stop automatically changes (like Tv mode) and when you change f-stop the shutter speed automatically changes (like Av mode).
Is this correct?
That is why I also described it as a fully automatic mode once the exposure is "locked"
Makes sense to me.....you can lock the exposure yet still make a quick change of shutter speed or aperture to suit the current image being taken and the camera makes a reciprocal change to shutter speed or aperture to keep the exposure constant. Basically allows changing parameters with one of the wheels instead of two while staying in M mode and keeping the chosen exposure constant.
Exactly! (One wheel would be aperture/exposure time balance, and the other one could be a choice of anything else that you can put on a wheel.) Plus this is a really simple thing to implement.
Not sure this is a tip or trick, but....
How often should we expect to clean the sensor. 3,500 or so frames and several spots have appeared. Didn't seem to have this issue w/ my 5dIII. It took a long time to get spots on the sensor.
Thoughts?
Last edited by Busted Knuckles; 11-26-2017 at 06:21 PM.
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I clean my sensor fairly often. My APS-C cameras only very rarely get dust, but my 1D X attracts it like a Swiffer. Rocket Blower, Visible Dust Arctic Butterfly and a Sensor Loupe are all I've needed (I have Sensor Stamps just in case).
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