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Increasing ISO or exposure compensation difference?


5 years 2 months ago #631523 by Alfonso Camil
What's the difference from increasing exposure compensation or increasing ISO?  They both seem to be doing the same thing?
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5 years 2 months ago - 5 years 2 months ago #631525 by GaryA

Alfonso Camil wrote: What's the difference from increasing exposure compensation or increasing ISO?  They both seem to be doing the same thing?


No difference.  Some find it easier to add/subtract say 1/3 of a stop via EC than to divide the ISO and add the quotient back to the present ISO and adjust accordingly.  Often, the EC is more readily available to adjust than the ISO.
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5 years 2 months ago #631526 by GaryA
PS- I mostly shoot in manual and find it easier to override the meter / dial in a 'proper' exposure by adjusting the aperture or shutter speed than mess with the ISO.
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5 years 2 months ago #631527 by garyrhook
I find EC annoying. It's just as easy to spin the aperture dial (assuming I have the latitude) and watch the meter. Second choice is the ISO value.
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5 years 2 months ago #631530 by Shadowfixer1

garyrhook wrote: I find EC annoying. It's just as easy to spin the aperture dial (assuming I have the latitude) and watch the meter. Second choice is the ISO value.

That is assuming your in manual mode. EC is handy if you are an Aperture Priority shooter.
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5 years 2 months ago #631534 by Alfonso Camil
EC sounds like a made up benefit then?  Something to add perceived value. 
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5 years 2 months ago #631537 by Nikon Shooter
EV +/- is a most precious tool and the only one I use
in sports and wildlife once the other setups are done.
Light is free… capturing it is not!
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5 years 2 months ago #631540 by GaryA

Alfonso Camil wrote: EC sounds like a made up benefit then?  Something to add perceived value. 


For some ... sure.  But for others ... no.  Sorta like an automatic transmission, some like automatic but others prefer manual. 
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5 years 2 months ago #631541 by Shadowfixer1

Alfonso Camil wrote: EC sounds like a made up benefit then?  Something to add perceived value. 

Depends on the method used for shooting. Can be very important especially for aperture or shutter priority users. Not a made up benefit.
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5 years 2 months ago #631542 by Drumbum4100
I have a similar query about EC. If the three camera values that change are exposure, shutter speed and ISO, then which of these 3 is EC changing? Or is it fiddling with all three? 
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5 years 2 months ago #631550 by GaryA
Typically, in Aperture Priority, EC will change the shutter speed.  In Shutter Priority, EC will change the aperture.  In Program Mode it changes the shutter speed.  On my camera, it doesn't engage in Manual Mode.
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5 years 2 months ago #631551 by Drumbum4100
Yep, that makes perfect sense, thanks very much.
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5 years 2 months ago #631559 by garyrhook

Shadowfixer1 wrote:

garyrhook wrote: I find EC annoying. It's just as easy to spin the aperture dial (assuming I have the latitude) and watch the meter. Second choice is the ISO value.

That is assuming your in manual mode. EC is handy if you are an Aperture Priority shooter.


Ah, that's right. I always forget that there are other modes.
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5 years 2 months ago #631564 by Ozzie_Traveller
G'day Alfonso

As others here are also advising, exposure compensation works 'best' when you are using any of the P-A-S modes, and as Gary alludes to ... in Manual mode you are doing it 'DIY' style anyway. I shoot in all of P-A-S modes depending on what-where-when, and I use EC daily to refine the result to the image formed in my mind

Another example - last Friday night I was at a rock show where the lighting was changing every second of the show, so camera responses had to be immediate. I was in Aperture mode with EC at -1.5 EV as the subjects on stage were under direct lights and brighter than their surroundings. So while locked in "A" and EV-1.5, the shutter speed was all over the place responding to lighting changes

Hope this helps
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