Getting a little harder to find a foto a day with limited time.. but I’m discovering things about the camera handling.
Swapping to a separate switch for focus and to central point focus only has improved my hit rate.
Some technical details in case anyone is interested:
Canon 5D, 35mm lens.
Shooting RAW, but with the Picture style set to Monochrome with a yellow filter, ISO set to 400. Sharpness set to 3 (prints a pretty good A4 without further sharpening).
I’ve been playing with the settings to try to simplify it - listed here in case any other 5D owners are interested: Single central point AF with one shot AF (Custom Function 4 set to 1 - i.e. autofocus only when the button on the back is pressed, Exposure lock as soon as the shutter button is pressed half way). Shooting Aperture priority only. Metering pattern set to partial (8% in the centre).
I plan to shoot something every day, review the fotos on the screen, and print one print per day for a month - then I’ll see where to go from there.
Three recent posts on “The Online Photographer”, starting with this one: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/05/a-leica-year.html
have prompted me to start an exercise to regain some of the speed of use that I had when using simple mechanical cameras and film - I’m going to be shooting daily, only black and white, only one lens (35mm), with the camera set up for maximum speed and minimum automation. I plan to review the pictures and publish one every day - we’ll see how long that lasts:
