I can't believe it!

[My2Girls66]

My DD's softball team had to play a double header tonight for the championship. 2nd game was under the lights- too dark for my 70-300mmVR so I decided to play with the Hi 1.0 ISO on my camera which I think is 3200 equiv. When the girls won I stuck my 18-135mm lens on the camera to take pictures of the team celebrating and forgot to put the ISO back to 100
Now I have a bunch of grainy pictures I suppose I at least got the shots but what a dope!

 

[AndrewWG]

My DD's softball team had to play a double header tonight for the championship. 2nd game was under the lights- too dark for my 70-300mmVR so I decided to play with the Hi 1.0 ISO on my camera which I think is 3200 equiv. When the girls won I stuck my 18-135mm lens on the camera to take pictures of the team celebrating and forgot to put the ISO back to 100
Now I have a bunch of grainy pictures I suppose I at least got the shots but what a dope!

I still do that ALL the time. Don't feel bad. This baseball season I am getting better at recognizing the higher shutter speeds vs the aperture I chose so I have caught myself with high ISO BEFORE the shot was taken, but inevitably I leave it on the high ISO at least once a night.

 

[jann1033]

i've done it too...i usually use av so my thinking goes something like " hmm shutter is 1/1500, wonder why"...humming to myself while i click click click click click then finally the light bulb goes off in my otherwise dim brain...."oh my iso is 800"

 

[AndrewWG]

i've done it too...i usually use av so my thinking goes something like " hmm shutter is 1/1500, wonder why"...humming to myself while i click click click click click then finally the light bulb goes off in my otherwise dim brain...."oh my iso is 800"

Exactly what I do!

 

[pointandshoot]

I shot my god daughter's dance recital last weekend. Very dark, uneven light so I was shooting manual adjusting ISO, shutter, and aperature all the time. I did not notice my camera was not set on manual but a user custom setting mode. So everytime the camera would auto-shutdown, I was reset to those user settings with a low ISO.

I could not figure out why I had to keep resetting my exposure until after the show and I had some light. Missed some shots because of it. Below is a shot from the show. She was great.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

It happens to me as well. I have many shots from my WDW trip taken after dark rides that are at ISO 6400 in broad daylight. I often forget until I either look at the LCD or I take the time to pick a particular exposure setting (when it quickly becomes obvious that a 1/4000s shutter speed at f/11 is a bit odd).

It's also one of the reasons that I rarely use spot metering mode. I've fogotten to turn that off and had shots with all kinds of weird exposure errors.

I would love to have a "go home to momma" button on my camera. When you press it, it would go to your "home" settings. I have a menu item that allows me to do that, but it's too many steps so I don't bother.

My "home" settings would be ISO 400, aperture priority at f/4, 0 EV, matrix metering mode, AF on, IS on, IS in pan mode, second curtain flash sync, mirror lockup off, continous AF, low-speed continuous shooting (as opposed to one shot or high speed), live view off. These are my mental defaults.

 

[webshark3]

I shot half of Christmas morining at ISO 1600. Fortunately, it was my XSI and RAW, so the images still look pretty clean.

And to think, Canon put ISO info right in the viewfinder after we complained THAT was the reason we kept forgetting to check it. LOL

 

[My2Girls66]

Well, now I don't feel so bad. Thanks!