What mode do you shoot in?

I usually shoot wildlife in Apreture priority mode w/ Auto Focus. Landscapes are mostly in Manual mode - Manual Focus...some AF

Just curious what modes/settings others use?

I shoot landscapes in manual mode w/ manual focus (usually at the hyperfocal distance). Birds are shot in aperture priority w/ AF, matrix metering w/ exposure compensation (I'm trying to learn Atrie's exposure compensation guide). Other wildlife is sometimes shot in manual mode w/ spot metering.

Usually:
Av - wildlife (AF), landscape (MF)
Tv - fill flash in bright conditions (at fastest ss)
M - full flash macro (MF).
but certainly not always.

I prefer partial metering for most things (don't have spot) but centre weighted and evaluative are not far behind.

N.

AV (in full EV metering) mode almost exclusively as the aperture has a visible effect on every picture. I shoot 99% mammals and birds, v little landscape.

I keep an eye on shutter speed every now and then....

A

M for pretty much everything. I almost always have AF enabled but have start/stop control over AF using my thumb so many shots are effectively taken in MF.

Manual mode using the histogram as the primary meter on the DSLR's

I try to shoot in a calm and calculated mode. That is what you meant, right

Guy

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I shoot fully manual all the time, exposure and focus.

My camera outfit has AF capability but the only time I've ever used it was when, sans film, I was familiarizing myself with the camera's features the day I purchased it. Since 99.99% of my shots are of the landscape and macro variety, there's not much need for AF...but I thought I might use it, once upon a time.

--Kerry

Wildlife & Birds: Aperature priority, usually MF (since my Pentax only has a centre spot, and while very accurate on static subjects on that spot, animals don't usually cooperate...)

Landscapes: Manual mode, MF. Saying this is manual exposure mode is a bit of a misnomer. I essentially use aperature priority, it's just that I *manually* set the shutter speed to what the camera recommends, and then bracket manually by adjusting shutter speed (normally).

Snapshots: Fully Auto.

The only meter I currently use is the one built into my cameras. These are both Pentax's six segment metering (probably similar in concept to Matrix/Evaluative); neither of my bodies has any other metering options. It's pretty good--normally when I think I'm smarter than it, I'm wrong...

-Paul

I shoot manual mode and spot meter for my exposure. If the camera I am using has evaluative metering, I may check the spot exposure against the evalutive one.

I mostly just shoot landscapes so I always use manual focus. When I'm shooting people or animals I'll use auto focus.

- Dan.

Ditto what Dan said

For still scenes, I typically use AF to get the focus roughly where I want, switch to manual, then adjust focus from there, if necessary.

I then use manual exposure control, using internal metering with my smallest spot (a fat 9.5% on the Canon 10D!) against the highlights or shadows depending on what I want, then recompose and shoot.

I do AF this way primarily because I haven't gotten comfortable with putting the AF on the * button with that custom function and because I have a hard time focusing manually...

I shoot most subjects in manual mode, spot meter, manual focus.

My most common exception is wildlife, for which I'll generally switch to aperture priority, still spot meter (appropriate compensation dialed in), and often (not always) autofocus so I'm sure to nail the eyes.

Cheers,
Mark

AV, AF, with spot metering, exposure compensation as needed, 99% of the time with wildlife.

AV, manual focus, with spot metering, exposure compensation as needed, for macro and landscapes.

I shoot 90+ percent of my images in manual exposure and base my exposure on the histogram reading using digital SLRs.

When I shot film I shot in the same mode most of the time, but used an incident meter (with compensation) to determine exposure.

I shoot primarily in manual mode and rely on the 1D's histogram to let me know how I'm doing. Every so often I shoot in aperture priority, and one time I even shot in shutter priority. (1/500 to ensure I stayed within the camera's sync speed.)

Manual/Manual/Spot Metering.

Birds - AV mode and AF
Macro - Manual mode, Manual Focus and spot or handheld meter
Landscapes - Manual mode, Manual Focus, sunny 16 rule or spot meter.

When I shot with my F5's, I shot in aperture priority 99% of the time with a little compensation for very white things--like polar bears. With my D1's, the Matrix Metering isn't nearly as reliable which totally forced me to change my shooting habits to manual reading and depending a lot on the histogram. I still incident meter when shooting birds in the same light that I'm standing.

Cheers