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**Erwtbimp** · 01-29-2009, 12:14 PM

The settings depend on what type of photos you want to produce, Actions shots, close ups, artistic etc?

You can try playing arounds with the shutter, aperture and iso levels and see what you get.
In my experience the lens plays one of the most important factors. Get some good glass and you can pretty much take any type of photo you want.

I use a 50mm f1.7 for most of my action shots and a 70-210mm f4 for the closeups and generally anything else. I like to use aperature priority as this will pick the fastest shutter speed for the conditions and generally give a good depth of field or I use shutter priority. I also try and keep the ISO levels below 1600 to avoid the noise

There are a few threads about this already that have some excellent posts and there are some really talented photographers here who can offer better advice than myself - Kenshi, Jschmidt, Xvikingx, Ratulin to name a few

http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17129
http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18792

cheers
Dave

01-29-2009, 12:14 PM	#3
Erwtbimp Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 348 Senior Member	The settings depend on what type of photos you want to produce, Actions shots, close ups, artistic etc? You can try playing arounds with the shutter, aperture and iso levels and see what you get. In my experience the lens plays one of the most important factors. Get some good glass and you can pretty much take any type of photo you want. I use a 50mm f1.7 for most of my action shots and a 70-210mm f4 for the closeups and generally anything else. I like to use aperature priority as this will pick the fastest shutter speed for the conditions and generally give a good depth of field or I use shutter priority. I also try and keep the ISO levels below 1600 to avoid the noise There are a few threads about this already that have some excellent posts and there are some really talented photographers here who can offer better advice than myself - Kenshi, Jschmidt, Xvikingx, Ratulin to name a few http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17129 http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18792 cheers Dave
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