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Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

12/17/2004 01:26:33 PM · #1

I am such an idiot. I went out this afternoon, shot about 100 shots. carefully checked exposure, tried some aperture variations. In general, tried to get som enice work. And I shot the whole thing on ISO 1600! ARGH!

TLL061

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

12/17/2004 01:28:54 PM · #2

I did the same thing on wednesday, I was shooting some christmas lights the night before , my shot turn out a little grainy

aznym

Fujifilm X-T3

Fujifilm XF 23mm f/2 R WR

12/17/2004 01:29:36 PM · #3

sometimes the best images from a shoot are produced from mistakes. Go through the stuff and see if you have anything that works well with the settings.

Gauti

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

12/17/2004 01:32:49 PM · #4

same thing happened to me a couple of months ago. Fortunately I took only a few before the very short shutterspeed started to sound strange. Got some good pics at ISO 1600 tho.
Example:

Sigma 100-300mm F/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon

12/17/2004 01:47:35 PM · #5

Well, I don't know how much can be said for the quality of the photographer's work, but WOW! the noise is quite acceptable. At 1600 it was better than my sony at 100! I feel much less stupid now (but still stupid enough to hopefully not do it too frequently).

MrYu

Nikon D70

12/17/2004 01:52:02 PM · #6

A lot of times if you turn those noisy/grainy images into b/w and bump up contrast they make pretty cool shots.

TLL061

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

12/17/2004 01:59:41 PM · #7

I shot this on wednesday at 1600 , not a good shot , but you can see the grain

LevT

Olympus OM-1

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

12/17/2004 02:30:12 PM · #8

Originally posted by vontom:

That's what this AE luxury does to us. If, as in the good old days when AE was not an option, you'd have to set the exposure manually, you'd certainly notice the offset of 5 stops :). With constant practice I used to be able to estimate the exposure to within a half a stop. Not so anymore.

Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

12/17/2004 02:34:20 PM · #9

That's the thing, I did set the exposure manually. I, in effort to become a better photographer, have decided to only shoot manual... This way, any problems with the pictures are my fault, not the cameras. However, I guess I can't estimate exposure well enough to think anything was wrong. oops. However, the pics came out o.k. despite the high iso. It's nice to know I'm not alone. :)

faidoi

Pentax K10D

12/17/2004 02:40:30 PM · #10

? for the "Rebel" owners? If you pull the battery out of the camera would the settings go to default or settings would stay the same?

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

12/17/2004 02:47:25 PM · #11

my impromptu test says the settings are stored. Also, when setting the options on manual, if i switch to auto, and then return to manual, the options were all restored.

jimmythefish

Canon EOS-10D

12/17/2004 03:53:18 PM · #12

I did that a few times in Europe this summer. Shot at ISO 800 inside a church or something and then forgot to set back down to 100 when back outside. It's easy to forget when it's super hot and you're tired and have been walking all day.

Lupe

Nikon D200

12/17/2004 07:01:36 PM · #13

I'd like to submit my application to this club too.

I've been trying to get this one shot for about a week. Many things had to be in place because I was driving home from work when I noticed that at this one particular spot in a parkway, the sun hits the road just right so that the yellow divider line almost glows. The best view of this is through my side view mirror. To make the shot more interesting, I would have to be in a spot where the road curves behind me. To be able to take the shot safely, I would also have to be stopped at the stoplight with just the right number of cars in front of me to put me in the exact spot that I was hoping for. Well that all happened today. But because my lens was pointing almost directly into the sun, and what I was trying to shoot was behind me, and my ISO was set to 1600, that opportunity was missed completly. Everything was almost completey black except the highlights. I tried to save it in photoshop but I think this is a lost cause.

Oh well, maybe I'll get one more chance at it.