ISO

Why Understanding Manual Mode is important

by Mandy February 23, 2012
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To be completely honest I very rarely shoot in Manual Mode? When I talk about Manual Mode I’m talking about the ‘M’ mode on your cameras dial, not anything else like manual focus (that’s another post). And there’s 3 specific elements in manual mode that you have full control over – Aperture, Shutter and ISO. [...]

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My Digital Camera ISO Experiment

by Mandy February 15, 2008

Following on from Wednesdays post about digital camera ISO I thought it would be good to stop talking about it and give it a go. So I did, but seeing as I didn’t have any low light shooting opportunities coming up I decided to use my mouse as a substitute. The photograph on the top [...]

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What is ISO in Photography?

by Mandy February 13, 2008
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Back in ye old days when I had a film camera (crikey I sound old!), ISO was to do with how sensitive the film was to light. I generally used ISO 100, 200 and 400, for bright conditions, cloudy conditions and all round conditions respectively. But if you wanted to change your ISO when using [...]

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