That's a puzzle for me since the camera adheres to the "exposure triangle". My contention is if the camera is picking too high of an ISO it's your choice of aperture and shutter speed making it choose that ISO. It just doesn't willy nilly pick a number. If you shoot by the meter and want a lower ISO then you either have to open up the lens or slow the shutter. You still pick the ISO in Auto ISO, just not directly. You do it by your choices of shutter and aperture.garyrhook wrote:
Maybe I'm nuts, but I would think the ISO value would be based on the camera's meter. And different modes could produce different results, right?
Shadowfixer1 wrote:
I'm curious. How does it choose a higher ISO than you need? It chooses the ISO to make the other settings you have set work. If you want it to choose a lower ISO, you need to change either your shutter speed or your aperture. I have heard others say it picks a higher ISO than needed and I would like to know how that happens.fmw wrote: I never use it. It tends to choose higher ISO's than I need for the situation and that introduces avoidable noise. I set ISO manually for the given subject or lighting conditions.
I find that, on my D750, the auto mode tends to choose values that are "hot" under challeging conditions (e.g. harsh mid-day light). I don't like risking blown highlights, so I'll use auto mode to see what the meter thinks, then set a specific value and validate it. After that I make changes across the board, as required.
Under less challenging lighting, I can often trust Auto mode. But I still chimp.
fmw wrote: I never use it. It tends to choose higher ISO's than I need for the situation and that introduces avoidable noise. I set ISO manually for the given subject or lighting conditions.
You just described the Manual shooting mode. Where you set BOTH shutter and aperture. In Program or Aperture priority or Shutter priority, with Auto ISO, the camera's programming does get to juggle 2 or more settings against each other. So the ISO is free to go high or low. For most of the cameras I have used, the tendency is to go low, not high. Though with the weird DR / ISO setup on Fujis I have seen them go high.Shadowfixer1 wrote:
That's a puzzle for me since the camera adheres to the "exposure triangle". My contention is if the camera is picking too high of an ISO it's your choice of aperture and shutter speed making it choose that ISO. It just doesn't willy nilly pick a number. If you shoot by the meter and want a lower ISO then you either have to open up the lens or slow the shutter. You still pick the ISO in Auto ISO, just not directly. You do it by your choices of shutter and aperture.garyrhook wrote:
Maybe I'm nuts, but I would think the ISO value would be based on the camera's meter. And different modes could produce different results, right?
Shadowfixer1 wrote:
I'm curious. How does it choose a higher ISO than you need? It chooses the ISO to make the other settings you have set work. If you want it to choose a lower ISO, you need to change either your shutter speed or your aperture. I have heard others say it picks a higher ISO than needed and I would like to know how that happens.fmw wrote: I never use it. It tends to choose higher ISO's than I need for the situation and that introduces avoidable noise. I set ISO manually for the given subject or lighting conditions.
I find that, on my D750, the auto mode tends to choose values that are "hot" under challeging conditions (e.g. harsh mid-day light). I don't like risking blown highlights, so I'll use auto mode to see what the meter thinks, then set a specific value and validate it. After that I make changes across the board, as required.
Under less challenging lighting, I can often trust Auto mode. But I still chimp.
Shadowfixer1 wrote: That's a puzzle for me since the camera adheres to the "exposure triangle". My contention is if the camera is picking too high of an ISO it's your choice of aperture and shutter speed making it choose that ISO. It just doesn't willy nilly pick a number. If you shoot by the meter and want a lower ISO then you either have to open up the lens or slow the shutter. You still pick the ISO in Auto ISO, just not directly. You do it by your choices of shutter and aperture.
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