Let’s be honest: Isn’t the main reason most people almost to a fault prefer aperture priority, so they can set the aperture ring at max hole and shoot away, getting all that “bokey” they paid for?
I do that both for film and digital when I use the aperture priority mode. For the film cameras since many of them only have full stop increments for the shutter speed I do set the aperture to in between stops when doing it in manual mode.Isn't that with digital cameras? Hmmm. That brings up an interesting question. When shooting a typical film camera where you're adjusting against a pointer in a built-in meter, what settings are available for shutter and aperture? Do you in-between stop settings?
Let’s be honest: Isn’t the main reason most people almost to a fault prefer aperture priority, so they can set the aperture ring at max hole and shoot away, getting all that “bokey” they paid for?
Early (er, early 1980's) automatic exposure was all shutter priority. Lenses at the time could let the body sense the aperture but not set it. If a camera had an electronic shutter then adding aperture priority auto-exposure was a no-brainer.
Starting in the late 70's through the early 80's Nikon introduced aperture priority bodies with electronic shutters such as the FE & F3.
I've never seen a camera that offered aperture priority but not shutter priority, manual and auto mode as well.
You just reminded me that the Nikonos IVa that I own is aperture priority only. The shutter adjusts based on that setting and the internal meter and film speed. Unless you're using a strobe on manual, Then, the shutter is set for 1/90 sec.Example: Nikonos V depth of field is important in underwater photography
List cameras with shutter priority introduced in the early 80's except the Canon. From late 70's to early 80's before multi mode cameras became the norm most cameras are aperture priority. I can list a bunch of them.I'm only familiar with Nikons so that's all I can really speak to.
Early (er, early 1980's) automatic exposure was all shutter priority. Lenses at the time could let the body sense the aperture but not set it. If a camera had an electronic shutter then adding aperture priority auto-exposure was a no-brainer.
Starting in the late 70's through the early 80's Nikon introduced aperture priority bodies with electronic shutters such as the FE & F3. Their only mechanical camera at the time was the FM. Nikon offered program and shutter priority on some bodies such as the FG & FA but the customer had to buy new AIS lenses to take advantage of it.
Nikon owners with a lot of AI & AI'ed lenses stuck with aperture priority (if they used autoexposure at all) without thinking about it. Older lenses can not be converted to AIS.
I rarely use automatic exposure, but when I do, it is usually program (snapshot) mode.
I'm such a Luddite that I like stop-down metering - it forces me to be cognizant of depth of field issues.
My Yashica Electro 35CC is aperture priority, and its shutter will automatically open for up to about 14 or 15 seconds.I've never seen a camera that offered aperture priority but not shutter priority, manual and auto mode as well.
Let’s be honest: Isn’t the main reason most people almost to a fault prefer aperture priority, so they can set the aperture ring at max hole and shoot away, getting all that “bokey” they paid for?
Most often people will just either want as much DoF as possible or as little as possible.
I feel myself learning to appreciate shutter priority more and more, to the point that I will avoid a body if it only offers aperture, and no manual and/or shutter priority.
Of course it does happen that I want exactly the DoF that I imagine f8 or f5.6 will give in a given situation. But those occasions are rare and often I’m forced to chose something else due to the lighting conditions.
SOME cameras have 'in-between' apertures, and SOME cameras (like Bronica) have 'in-between' shutter speeds but only when the light meter in the camera controls the speeds. If using manual shutter speed selection, film cameras had no speeds available in between the detents. The Bronica has 1/60, 1/125, or 1/250 on the shutter speed dial, but the Bronica AE-III metering prism can set shutter speed to 1/6 EV when aperture priority metering is used!Isn't that with digital cameras? Hmmm. That brings up an interesting question. When shooting a typical film camera where you're adjusting against a pointer in a built-in meter, what settings are available for shutter and aperture? Do you in-between stop settings?
Let’s be honest: Isn’t the main reason most people almost to a fault prefer aperture priority, so they can set the aperture ring at max hole and shoot away, getting all that “bokey” they paid for?
It’s almost impossible to visualize how slightly different apertures will look, even (especially, perhaps) when stopping down, while it’s quite easy imagining what different shutter speeds will do at a given focal length.
Most often people will just either want as much DoF as possible or as little as possible.
And that is actually easier to control by adjusting the shutter to as little as you dare/can manage to stabilize, to have it as open as possible. Or selecting the highest possible speed to get as much depth as possible.
And of course just a medium speed for something you can hold still, enough or the appropriate amount of motion blur.
Aperture is more limiting than shutter speed. If I run out of aperture, I'm underexposing. It takes a lot to run out of time.
Shutter priority is not as useful because lots of lenses do not offer many usable apertures for camera's automation to pick from. Quite a few are only usable from f/4 to f/8 and that's just 3 stops.
Shutter priority is not as useful because lots of lenses do not offer many usable apertures for camera's automation to pick from. Quite a few are only usable from f/4 to f/8 and that's just 3 stops.
Back in the days of ISO 400 max sensitivity film, you learned to use max aperture plenty!I don't know about others but for me I never use the maximum aperture even in low light but I do use aperture priority mode often. Besides from manual I use aperture priority because there are many more shutter speeds for the camera to use. In shutter priority the camera only has about 5 or 6 stops the most. For me shutter speed from highest shutter speed of 1/8000 or 1/1000 down to 1/125 or so is irrelevant in most cases. So in aperture priority the camera can adjust the exposure without changing my pictures.
Shutter priority is not as useful because lots of lenses do not offer many usable apertures for camera's automation to pick from. Quite a few are only usable from f/4 to f/8 and that's just 3 stops.
Shutter priority is not as useful because lots of lenses do not offer many usable apertures for camera's automation to pick from. Quite a few are only usable from f/4 to f/8 and that's just 3 stops.
Diffraction becomes visible at f/11.
f/2.8 performance is almost always an intentional compromise, and sometimes not even available.
So yeah, f/4, f/5.6 and maybe f/8 are the only "speeds" I'd let my camera pick without my input. @Sirius Glass of course it's true. And has nothing to do with the speed of the film. If a range of available EV values is just 3 stops, it can be limiting in both directions. I'm Old Gregg.
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