How To Shoot With Manual Mode, The Easy Way (2 Methods)

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[AllenFreemanMediaGuru]

The auto ISO tends to be too high. I stick to all manual across the board. It’s takes practice to average out the best settings but eventually you do it very fast.

[alex.Lukehart]

Auto iso is great. It should be everyone’s go-to if your light is constantly changing. You’ll capture more great shots than you’ll miss from spending time dialing in your settings. Being in the moment is how we all get our best shots. Sometimes it’s okay to let the camera do some of the work.

[elo]

most situations can be solved with Aperture priority and auto ISO... in daytime / outdoors set a lower max auto limit, increase indoors and low light. being comfortable with noise is a personal thing, I want it as low as possible but i wont let it get in the way of taking a shot so I'd take more noise than no shot specially with the current generation of full frame cameras.

ill go maual iso on tripod work and manual shutter speed on motion (freezing or blurring) either limited shots.

[Posted]

Hmm ive always done auto everything but ive never thought of letting iso be auto, as long as i set the minimum & maximum it makes perfect sense. Im going to try that

[Magicairsoft]

Good hints except the one with auto ISO, never use that setting if you are not sure how your camera handles high iso values.

[LorencCala]

Please can you tell also what mode of exposure metering you use 99% of the time?

My problem with the auto iso is that my camera doesn't get good photos about 800iso. I just bought a new canon r6 mark II, when it arrives i have to retry and see how it performs 😊

[nol]

Any camera and lens recomendation for portraits shooting ?

[InertiaEffect]

Aperture priority or shutter priority aint so bad...

[calabasas]

About the auto iso, I have the A7 iii, I don’t believe it has given me the best (low) iso on auto mode. Could you explain more about it, or how you see it?

[vueport]

If you set it to auto ISO you are basically still in Auto mode. And it is actually even more work if you need to adjust the brightness since now you need to use +/-EV. But I guess it's OK if you're a beginner and want to learn how to use the camera

[sectursniche]

Once i try shooting in manual mode without external....my camera begins to lag

[powerfuljones]

I don’t think changing iso takes too long
I better do it myself

[kathynassa]

If you put it on auto iso you can’t control shutter speed though.

[Pspet]

Everybody should be using auto-ISO on manual mode with exposure compensation. Especially on ISO invariant cameras. If you are not doing that then you are making your life harder for no reason

[ThanhThanh-itpm]

1 factor iso is auto. So it's not full "M" mode

[IkramhasanOfficial]

Any one annoyed by how there is no lens cover and he is holding the camera from the front of the lens, which honestly who does that?