Icarus021 0 #1 January 13, 2008 Can anyone give me advice on the best settings for a Cannon EOS Digital? 3-2-1-cya Don't take life too serious, you will never get out alive! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #2 January 13, 2008 What is the best flavor of Ice Cream? There are a million different potential configurations for the settings and each one is correct for a different photo, the trick is to figure out what the individual environment settings are and base your camera's settings around those. A Sunset needs different settings then a midday which needs different settings then an overcast day. You can go the lazy way and use sports mode and that will tend to get about 60-70% of your photos fairly close. If you go a bit more technical and go to Shutter priority you can dial in your settings a bit more, if you go full manual you'll have even more control but you also stand to mess them up more too. Search the forums for others settings but the best thing you could do is to go get a book on photography ( I recommend Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson) so you can understand how light really works with your camera and then set the camera up for each jump to get the picture you want.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dragon2 2 #3 January 13, 2008 Settings for what? There are no best settings, I suggest you read a good photography book plus your manual to find out the definitions of and relations between shutter speed, f/stop, depth of field, ISO, noise etc and what the various symbols on the big dial mean, and then think about what you want to achieve and how to use these settings to go about that. Hint: forget about the settings with pictograms on them for skydiving If you take the time to understand what you are doing your photography will be all the better for it and you'll be able to adapt to changing conditions (sunset, bright days, cloudy etc). ciel bleu, Saskia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dragon2 2 #4 January 13, 2008 LOL what he said ciel bleu, Saskia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_sarge 0 #5 January 13, 2008 Like already mentioned there a lot of things to consider, when setting your SLR for the jump. I find the focus being most important. I usually set my camera to manual focus and fixate the focus ring (with gaffa) to the distance that i will be shooting. Furthermore i want a good depth-of-field, so i'm setting the camera to aperture priority (Av) with a value of about f9. That will also increase the optical performance on most lenses. ISO setting is 400, at most Use daylight White Balance... The Auto WB setting will do fine too. Bear in mind that those settings will only work in bright daylight. In the evening or in overcast weather, you will have to increase the ISO, and use a wider aperture. Those settings have generally given me some good pictures in the air... But on the ground they are totally useless... It all depends on the situation. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VectorBoy 0 #6 January 13, 2008 QuoteWhat is the best flavor of Ice Cream? German chocolate cake, but not from anybody only some creamerys do it justice. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The111 1 #7 January 13, 2008 QuoteWhat is the best flavor of Ice Cream? Ben & Jerry's Cinnamon Bun.www.WingsuitPhotos.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilotdave 0 #8 January 14, 2008 Sport mode works great. When you find something you don't like about it, switch to a mode that gives you more control. BTW, a lot of skydiving pictures that get posted to the internet have exif data attached. That includes just about all the camera settings that were used. If you use firefox, you can install an exif viewer plugin. Then you just have to right click on a picture to (sometimes) see all the photographer's secrets. Otherwise you can view exif information using the regular windows picture viewer by looking at the file properties and hitting advanced (or something like that). Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevebabin 0 #9 January 15, 2008 In my (evidently) extensive research, I've found Ben&Jerry's Cherry Garcia to be quite good... "Science, logic and reason will fly you to the moon. Religion will fly you into buildings." "Because figuring things out is always better than making shit up." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #10 January 15, 2008 Quote Can anyone give me advice on the best settings for a Cannon EOS Digital? It's best setting is on someones helmet that can use it.Seriously, I've been exactly where you are now and not that long ago. MORE SERIOUSLY, have you done a search? I posted a decent DOF calculator on here that may help you figure out that more advanced stuff, but the basics are something that you can find on this forum easily. I tell people who dont use dz.com my opinions and explain to them why they are my choices for setting the cam tha way then I follow up with . "OK, Now that you got that info go take 3000 pictures this week and tell me what you came up with." Basically if you don't use the camera for anything but skydiving, you're wasting your time. Go take pictures of flowers, bugs, landscapes, the stars and moon, your friends, your friends kids', you pets. THEN, go take pictures of stuff that looks boring and try to make it interesting. Some suggestions: Garbage can fire hydrant a mail box Go take pictures that might make people ask a few questions about them. I'm still a newb on the shutter but I learned a lot by seaching here and other forums and by clicking the shutter 40,000 times.My photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
