It was quite bright on parts of the building in the backgrond and on the globe. My zebra's were going wild!
But you were at ISO 3200! Same exposure @ ISO 100 would've been 1/250.
Yes, I couldn’t understand why the iso was so high. I have ISO on auto, so surprised ISO was so high.
For this kind of shooting where you have time to think, compose, etc., I HIGHLY recommend you abandon Auto ISO and start working within your base of 100. The MIV also has a dual range sensor with a second base ISO at 400 that is very handy. You are going to learn so much more by doing it yourself. I only use Auto ISO when things are happening fast, like birds, or the drag strip, or an air show, etc. and you don't have time to make a lot of changes. Even a that I only switch to it when the light gets low enough to be an issue. My cameras are in M 99% of the time.
Yes indeed. I shot full manual for Astro and set the ISO to 400. For everything else I have been relying on auto ISO, with a manually inserted upper cap on the ISO. Still not sure why the camera selected ISO3200? I guess it was a little cloudy and so dull in parts. But when the sun peaked through there were highlights in the sky, on parts of the white stone buildings in the background and also parts of the globe. But yes, for stationary objects like this fully manual is best.
My bad. I just checked my camera settings and discovered the ISO was set to 3200 and not auto!!! I couldn’t understand why all those shots were coming out at 3200! Lesson learnt, check settings each time you start a new shoot.
Do you utilize your 3 custom setups on the mode dial? Maybe set #1 up with your normal parameters and Auto ISO, set #2 up for a specific type of shooting, like birds, and #3 for whatever. Leave the straight-forward settings like single frame, AF-S, ISO 100 etc. for PASM. Then all you need to remember is to move the mode dial. This is usually pretty easy because something won't be right with your first shot, like maybe you fire a burst and were expecting a single frame, so you're alerted.
Tim, thanks for this info!
You don't have to calculate anything. Use the meter/zebras/histogram to make your settings. The only reason anyone finds it a problem is because they haven't done it enough. It really does become automatic after a while. For those who used to shoot film, we were stuck with what we had (pushing or pulling ASA aside). Changing ISO wasn't even possible, so we learned how to do it with aperture, shutter, and available light.
The good old days were not so good.
#2 may be a bit restrictive unless we specify a 36-exposure card!
Tim that's what I was doing when I accidently set my ISO to 3200 for 3 days! I remember the days of using Kodak 400 ASA TRI-X black and white film and push processing it to get it even faster!
Please don't ever admit that publicly, again.
