why not up til F20?..i got tripod..coz tis weekend going to beach..i want to get a nice landscape picture...i guess i will stick to my favourite ISO 400..

APS-C is AutoFocus in Continuous mode?

our kitlens sweet spot for sharpness is between F8-F16 if not mistaken...the lower the ISO the better for landscape...u'll capture more dramatic effect....

oh?..is it?..then i try use F14..haha...for bright sunlight i prefer ISO 200..haha..

If you set the aperture to too high a number, diffraction will set in and it will cause your pic to lose details. Pumping up the aperture will not give you increasingly sharp pictures. Any aperture above F11 tend to give very minimal improvement unless you're doing macro photography where the DOF is razor thin.

Use the lowest ISO possible so that your image will be as noise free as possible, especially in the shadow areas.

You're at a beach. The sun's plenty strong enough to get decent pix even at ISO 50. You do not need to use ISO 400.

Here are a couple of examples (old pics):

1. Taken using f4.5 ISO 100 with CPL filter



2. Taken using f8 ISO 100 with CPL filter

No wonder the 1st pic looks so familiar la. Is that the paddy field u passed while heading towards the waterfall? I was there when its raining super heavily. Hahaha.

This post has been edited by Wonka: May 19 2010, 09:22 AM

wonka : Can't remember... it's been some time but I know it's taken at a restaurant in Bali.

Ohh I think its the Dirty Duck dish is it? OMG I totally forgotten tho I just went there on Feb. Hahah~

my Alpha 550 cant go down til ISO 50....

ahpingko : I dun think any Alpha here can go down to ISO 50. Just using that as an example. Hahaha...

But the idea is to use the lowest ISO setting. I've heard of people afraid to use high ISO but I think you're the first for me for being afraid to use low ISO.

lol..the lowest i can go wif my 550 is iso 200 la...

But remember to always check your ISO settings. There's once I forgot to check my ISO settings and when I took sunrise pics, my ISO is at 400. OMG! Im on top of Mt Kinabalu at that time. I only realise when I reach back home. Its like WTF!

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Added on May 19, 2010, 9:37 amIts just an example bro. Then use ISO200 la. Its the lowest u can get.

This post has been edited by Wonka: May 19 2010, 09:38 AM

Wonka : Happens to all of us! But then it's a good lesson to learn and I bet after that you've never made the same mistake again right?

Yeah thats why im always monitoring my ISO now. And im climbing Mt Kinabalu again maybe sometime soon. Tak puas hati.

Banzai_san: I guess I'd prefer in #1 that the people not be intersecting with the island.

shootkk: Nice #1 (minus the top right corner.)

albnok : Yup! That's how a 95% viewfinder can sometimes ruin your shot! I honestly did not see the wire there when I pressed the shutter. I remember because I was careful to lean out the window some distance to get the railings out of the frame.

Didn't feel like cropping afterwards and too lazy to clone it away.

u all using tripod for slow shutter rite??..i got no remote control, so using 2sec auto timer...haha...

btw, for shooting normal picture like in a trip, event, watever, u all using auto setting?..or use manual?

yie? 550 has lowest 200 iso? not 100 ar?

Thats how I shoot low shutter on tripod. 2secs timer. Hahah. For me, Im mainly on A mode. Hehe.

Yeah the lowest is 200. Not 100.

Thanks for the comment.
Its good to hear others view... good way for me to improve

ahpinko, in the mainstream, there are full frame sensors and APS-C aka crop sensors. APS-C does not mean auto what focus with continuous.. 0MG, how did u get to that, i really wonder..

On our alpha's it's all 1.5x cropped (canons are 1.6x, then there's the 1.3x APS-H on the 1D mkIV, olympus uses the four thirds [written as 4/3] being a 2x cropped meaning a lenses written as 16mm when attached to the body will have a view of 32mm on a FF), meaning that compared to a full frame sensor, what you see is approx. 2/3 of what u will see on a FF, thus giving an advantage for telephoto lens users.

This post has been edited by lwliam: May 19 2010, 12:46 PM