Friday, November 11, 2011

How to Make the Switch to Manual Non-Scary

Any amateur can switch to manual today. The secret is, it's not any harder than using aperture/shutter-priority mode. Which is barely harder than using full auto.


It's a common misconception that you have to know a bunch of stuff in order to use manual. In reality, when you're using manual, your camera still does the hard stuff for you.


In your viewfinder, you will see something like this:


- 2..1..v..1..2 +

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When shooting manual, all you have to do is click the dials until you get that bar to line up with the centre. When it's to the left, it's under-exposed, and if it's to the right, it's over-exposed.


This will give the same results as shooting in automatic. Just more control.


That's it. Go have fun in manual now.

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