A street restaurant in the Corsican town of Porto-Vecchio
Nikon's great 'auto-iso' feature which I have on my Nikon D40 saved this one from being underexposed or completely blurry from camera shake.
I hadn't realised the light level was so much lower under those umbrellas and still had my camera set to aperture priority at f11.
I have the auto-iso feature set so that it only allows the shutter speed to drop as low as 1/30th second then it automatically starts to boost the iso upward to maintain correct exposure.
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@Ted: Hi Ted! With Nikon's auto-iso feature you mainly have to decide on two things: how slow a shutter speed you can comfortably handhold without getting blurry shots due to handshake (with me it's 1/30th of a second with all of my lenses) and the other decision is how high are you happy to let the iso go up to (with me it's iso1600). What auto-iso does once you've set these shutter speed and iso operational parameters is that it will not allow your shutter speed to drop below the set value (1/30th for me). I almost always work in aperture priority mode so auto-iso in a situation like in the photo above will hold the shutter speed at the 1/30th min set value and will start to raise the iso to compensate. It's obviously not the kind of feature that would have been possible with film cameras but with digital you need to start to think of iso as being a third exposue control variable - shutter speed - aperture - iso.....they all control exposure.
NIKON D40
1/30 second
F/11.0
ISO 320
30 mm (35mm equiv.)