Comments on: Digital Camera Shooting Modes – Which is Most Popular?

By: Ken Burrill

Ken Burrill — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:07:17 +0000

l always shoot manual when using my tripod, mostly for portrait work and night scenes. When traveling I shoot aperture priority for the most part but have used program on occasions when I just wanted to take a quick shot. I never use shutter speed.

By: shantinath

shantinath — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:00:55 +0000

SHOOTING MODE: I started photography at the age of seven with a brownie Kodak camera. It was great fun and also frustration to develop and print the pictures and make enlargements. Next came Agfa folding cameras, later Canon A 1 and at this time during my (Senile?) citizen’s age of nearly 80 years. I acquired a Panasonic FZ 18 camera. I am very pleased with this camera, particularly the intelligent auto mode. I have photographed wild animals in South Africa and found the intelligent auto mode the most useful. Since the lens goes up to 504 mms equivalent, I did not carry any other telephoto lens. For portraits, I use Aperture priority. I have a few hundred pictures of different aquaria, all taken in intelligent auto mode. However, when the aquatic animals are moving rapidly, I change to the movie mode. Most of the time, I leave it on intelligent auto and I get if not stunning, reasonably good results I also have 3 stereo cameras none of which have either a light meter or range finder. I still enjoy using these cameras. My answer is: I am not rigid about using a particular shooting mode, but change it as I think it is necessary.

By: JP Lumansoc

JP Lumansoc — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:35:16 +0000

I shoot manual mode 95% of the time. I spend most of my time shooting weddings and portraits and I use flash extensively. Shooting in aperture, program, and shutter priority is close to impossible if I want to achieve the results that I want with those modes especially with using flash. I find that shooting manual mode in a evenly lit scene indoors is a good way to start practicing. Or when its really really cloudy outside. I’ll shoot in Aperture priority if I’m shooting outdoor sports where I’m moving from shade to sun and so forth. But Manual is the way to go. Go out and just shoot manual. Make mistakes and learn from them. After a couple of hours, you’ll have it down.

By: Adam Parker

Adam Parker — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:52:58 +0000

Very interesting, I would have thought that Program mode would be higher. I can see Aperture Priority, but assumed that the bulk of users hadn’t worked up to Manual mode yet. Very nice to see, thanks for the results.

If someone is a little overwhelmed by the modes, look at a tutorial. Or see the examples and definitions side by side:
http://blogs.adamparkerphotography.com/blog/Canon-Shooting-Modes-What-are-the-differences/29/

By: lloyd braun

lloyd braun — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:17:57 +0000

manual

By: Chris Patterson

Chris Patterson — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:19:04 +0000

I use Aperture mode much of the time. However, if I am just shooting snap shots of my children playing I will venture to Program and if I give the camera to my wife or someone else to take a picture I always switch it to auto.

Given the vast number of Cannon XTs I saw at my daughter’s ballet recital last week most with cheap wide/tele zooms I am sure there are many more auto shooters out there but they probably don’t read this blog or any others. I am all for people starting a hobby and I know you start somewhere but if please learn something about it.

By: Sunil Gupta

Sunil Gupta — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:18:46 +0000

I wnated to shoot very high quality Close Up pictures.

Please guide me which specification is most important to check in a digital camera for this Purpose. Is it the MP, Macro Mode, both, Macro Mode, Focal Length or something else.

Please comment.

waiting for your kind reply

By: dee

dee — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:43:58 +0000

I went to click on link for Aperture and Shutter modes and got hi-jacked to an Amazon.com book Failure Mode and Effectve Analysis: FMEA From Theory to Execution

were you aware of that??

how disappointing, I was really interested in finding out more about the A & S modes.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 30 May 2007 00:04:45 +0000

What are some of the methods used to obtain the manual exposure settings? Spot meter reading? Gray card? Skin?

Thank you for your comments…

Todd

By: jin

jin — Tue, 29 May 2007 08:03:12 +0000

I usually use manual mode. It is easier for me to take a picture, and it is faster. Especially outdoor, I used the sunny 16 rule to predict the aperture and shutter speed. It is really faster work flow.