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ISO settings in your camera for every day shooting?


12 years 9 months ago #116937 by Scott Grant
As many of you may know I'm somewhat new to photography, I have owned old film camera's but this is years ago. Any way I have a Nikon D7000 and have kept the ISO at 320. I was just wondering what do most of you keep your ISO set at for every day shooting?
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12 years 9 months ago #116945 by Baydream
I like to keep it at 200 unless conditions dictate otherwise. For "action", I move to 400, Landscapes in bright light 100, dim light 800. That is one of the great benefits of digital.
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12 years 9 months ago - 12 years 9 months ago #116952 by Henry Peach
100 to 400 outdoors (as long as it's fairly bright) and 800 to 3200 indoors. I'm just starting to get over my fear of ISO 6400. :P
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12 years 9 months ago #116954 by Number 7
I keep mine at lowest numerical setting which is 200 on my camera
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12 years 9 months ago #116977 by Dori
100 to 400 for average daylight scenes.
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12 years 9 months ago #116984 by J bour
I keep my mine around 400-600
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12 years 9 months ago #117004 by KCook
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12 years 9 months ago #117058 by steveheap
It used to be 200, but since I have tried more HDR shots (which seems to enhance noise), I've gone down to 100. Once you get to 400 (on a Canon 5D), I start to get rejections on the picky stock sites due to noise in the shadow areas unless I use some sort of noise reduction, but that does tend to lose detail as well.

So I now stick with 100 unless it is too dark to get the shot at that speed. At the end of the day, missing a shot due to a purist view of ISO is not a good plan either!

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12 years 9 months ago #117074 by Scotty
200 usually...320 sometimes when I have a polarizer on.
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12 years 9 months ago #117265 by Street Shark
Most of the time it's at 200
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12 years 9 months ago #117311 by Joves
Bright and suny 200 to 400. It really depends on which lens Im using and If I have my longer glass mounted or hand holding. I sometimes go to 800 for the higher shutter speeds. For low lighting 800+ unless I want to do longer exposures of course.
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12 years 9 months ago #117479 by Scott Grant

steveheap wrote: It used to be 200, but since I have tried more HDR shots (which seems to enhance noise), I've gone down to 100. Once you get to 400 (on a Canon 5D), I start to get rejections on the picky stock sites due to noise in the shadow areas unless I use some sort of noise reduction, but that does tend to lose detail as well.

So I now stick with 100 unless it is too dark to get the shot at that speed. At the end of the day, missing a shot due to a purist view of ISO is not a good plan either!

Steve


I have noticed that if I go far enough down with my ISO I end up in L 0.3, then L 0.7 then L 1.0 . Which would be equal to ISO 100?
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12 years 9 months ago #117480 by Rob pix4u2
For hockey I use 800-1250, for sunrise I use 400, and bright & sunny 200
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12 years 9 months ago #117481 by Scott Grant
OH and why do they change the ISO name from a number to "L 0.3" ??
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12 years 9 months ago #117483 by MLKstudios
That's new to the digital world. The camera has real ISO's and fake ones. If the setting goes above (or below) its true ISO range, it uses Hi or Lo. Lo 0.3 is 1/3rd of a stop below its lowest true ISO setting.

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