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Old 05-06-2010, 06:33 PM
 
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow in "OZ "
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Just curious on what common ISO you use most of the time. Along with shutter speed and F stop combination...
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Old 05-06-2010, 07:06 PM
 
Location: Here and there
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I usually have my ISO at 400. Occasionally I will turn it down when conditions permit. Well, I always want to turn it down, but usually conditions do not permit. Speed and hole size I adjust on the fly, as I leave the camera on manual for those settings. 1/100 is the low end of the speed choices that I use hand held. I am not steady enough any slower than that. If I shoot fast I can go slower than that, but I blow a lot of pictures. I adjust hole size to fit the speed in those lower light conditions. With the tripod I go all over the place, from one extreme to the next.
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Old 05-06-2010, 08:20 PM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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I try to keep the ISO as low as I can...Shutter speed and aperture depends on what I'm shooting.
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Old 05-06-2010, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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100, the darker it gets, the higher ISO gets bumped.
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Old 05-06-2010, 09:42 PM
 
Location: Phoenix
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80, I have a canon powershot and have noticed noise the higher the ISO. You can definitely tell the difference between a shot at 80 and one at 400 ISO on my camera.

When shooting indoors I will bump it up to 200 or even to 800 sometimes. The results are OK, but you can tell the difference. But I can't shoot indoors at 80 or even 100. To be honest shooting candid shots of people indoors at 200 is difficult for me.
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Old 05-06-2010, 09:58 PM
 
Location: Wyoming
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That's kind of a tough one to answer for me.
Generally if it's in the studio or outdoors it's ISO 50-200.
Indoors with help of on-camera strobe might average 800.

I don't know what iso I use the most. It probably varies a lot depending on the season and type of photography I'm doing. When I shot film it maxed at 400 iso.
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Old 05-07-2010, 02:18 AM
 
Location: North Carolina
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It completely depends on the lighting situation and what I'm shooting.
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Old 05-07-2010, 02:39 AM
 
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normally outdoors 200 with my 17-55mm , 400 with my 80-200mm. indoors no flash i use auto iso up to 1600 .. i just started using flash with auto iso and it works just great,especially when bouncing the flash .

camera is nikon d300
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Old 05-07-2010, 04:38 PM
 
Location: Venice, Fl
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ISO 100 almost all the time, up to 800 depending on what light I have left near sunset. SP and Aperture all depend on what im doing, but I really like to experiment with both to see what results I can come up with.
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Old 05-07-2010, 04:57 PM
 
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with some nikons you have to be careful with iso 100 as its not a native resolution to some cameras.. my d300 is noiser at 100 than 200
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