Great video! As someone who is new to photography I've always been afraid of ISO being too high on my m50. The point you made about having a sharp 'grainy' picture is better than not having one at all really makes sense. Thanks
I frequently meet sports photographers who tell me they use full manual because you can't trust the meter. They then explain that they set Aperture to wide open, select 1/1000 or similar to freeze the motion. Then they point the camera at the field/player and adjust the ISO until the display in the camera says 0. The "display" in the camera is the meter reading... I use ISO Auto in my sports photography because lighting varies across the playing field, and through the day. A game the starts in direct sun, can end at night under lights. Auto ISO handles these changes wonderfully.
Good point. In many situations, like under controlled lighting, you can lock your setting in manually and just shoot away. But the auto iso is great for changing conditions.
I fully agree with you. Another good reason for auto ISO is what happened to me quite a lot: taking fotos inside a building (e.g. a dark church) during sightseeing trip, and then you step out of the dark into the bright sunlight and just forget to adjust the ISO - all shots now taken at high ISO, unneccessarily. And, during sports event there is no other way than auto ISO, with those shutter speed boundaries set in camera before the shooting.
Thank you,,,,now that im back shooting I can try that. I was afraid of trying it with fast changing stage lights wondering if the camera could figure out proper ISO. I need to try this technique in a tech-rehearsal shoot to feel more secure. Thank you for your detailed talk!
I had no idea this was a thing!! Thanks Eric! I love this! I’ve already set it up on the new 90D. I just upgraded from a T3i and this camera has LOTS of features the oldie but goodie didn’t have. Still learning about this FANTASTIC camera. This is a very useful tip. Good stuff!
totally agree with choice of auto ISO in run and gun situations. This premise is basically like shooting in aperture or shutter priority and basically with modern technology and newer cameras, irrespsctive of sensor size, the cameras do well even at high ISOs. Great video and thanks for sharing.
On my Nikon D810, my auto-iso always let's in a stop more of light than the shot really needs making it often overexposed for my tastes. I set my compensation at -1 stop - now it's perfect!!!
Great info Eric! I remember you made another video related to this topic where you compared photos with auto ISO and manual settings and it was very helpful. It would have been great in this video if you could have posted some comparative photos at night of handheld/manual settings with slow shutter speed, and handheld/auto iso to illustrate your point. I have the Canon T3i, M50, and R, and I feel that in the crop sensor cameras, the lower ISO image with a little blur can often (not always of course) seem better than the sharper but much noisier high ISO image. Not so with the full frame though, the low-light capabilities of the sensor in the R seem to make it much more acceptable to use the auto iso settings. Anyway, thanks for your videos, keep posting!
Thanks. It’s really about finding the balance between shutter speed and iso noise, but I can’t really see any situation where a blurry image at iso 400 would be better than a sharp image at iso 800. I agree that on the smaller cameras the high iso performance is much weaker to the point that the image is useless and you might as well have a blurry one that maybe looks artsy or something.
In the ISO menu settings, check the maximum ISO using Auto. Also make sure your ISO is set to Auto. When you use that if your shutter speed hits 125 and then the ISO maxes out, you will get a shutter speed slower than 125.
Thanks Eric. BTW, when you mentioned the rule of thumb for using a shutter speed equal to your focal length, should I assume that to be for full frame equivalent focal length? I assume you need to include your crop factor in that.
I'd say I'm in auto-iso on my Canon M5 pretty much all the time unless I am doing landscape or fireworks. I wish it had a minimum shutter speed setting like more expensive cameras do, but I go manual mode and set my shutter and aperture and then if the exposure isn't what I want I use the exposure compensation dial on the top of the camera which I can easily change with the dial on top while keeping the camera up to my eye. I shoot a lot of my daughter horseback riding and so often am switching between backlight and front light in the sunlight within seconds as she travels around a course and auto iso allows me to handle this without constantly adjusting and missing shots. Even on an M5 the ISO range is good enough, and I'd rather a slightly noisier shot with the action frozen than over or under exposed shots as the lighting changed. Thanks for the videos as always!
Thanks for this. Question - if shooting in manual mode, isn't shutter speed locked in at whatever you have set it at manually? Does the minimum shutter speed setting you set mean that the actual shutter speed used will be increased from your manual setting if you have the minimum shutter speed set to a speed that is higher than your manual setting? I am shooting an R6 and that minimum shutter speed setting does not seem to be available when shooting in manual mode. Do I have the wrong? Still, even without that feature in manual mode, I too like shooting in auto iso at least for action type stuff because to me it speeds me up and I would rather be controlling shutter speed and f/stops which are the most important creative adjustments in my opinion.
If you are shooting in manual mode, the minimum shutter speed setting is definitely not available. Your aperture and shutter speed will be whatever you said it to be and you can still use auto ISO, but it won’t adjust the shutter speed. The minimum shutter speed setting is for when you were shooting in aperture priority.
Been using auto iso since I got my Canon M50 last year, and have capped it at 3200. Wish it did have a minimum shutter setting but in those circumstances I either just set the camera on shutter priority or put to manual. One of the best improvements in the last few years.
It’s definitely a huge plus. We talk about megapixels and resolution and stuff all the time but sometimes it’s the little bits of technology that make a big difference too.
Totally agree, it's a technique I most often use when shoting birds in flight. Birds move a lot faster than one thinks so 1,000 of a second is often the slowest shutter speed I can use combined with an f stop to give me a sufficient depth of field I can live with could be f8. The only way to make this work is to use Auto ISO and even then, in the Summer months I may well have to use an ND filter to dial the exposure down !
For video the shutter speed usually follows the 180 rule where the shutter speed is twice the FPS - so if you are shooting 50 FPS, shutter should be 100 - so the shutter needs to be fixed and I guess for fixed static photography the focal length rule comes into play but in agreement the shutter speed often needs to be set and the aperture might relate to the look you want - ie blurry background or all in focus so often the aperture and shutter need to be fixed - so the auto iso gives a nice easy solution to maintain the fixed aperture and fixed shutter speed. I love auto iso as well and from the perspective of shooting video its great as well
Sadly as a wildlife snapper auto ISO is pretty useless, its not the fault of auto ISO but the fault of the camera's exposure meter and the way its calibrated because when I point to the sky the exposure meter is fooled and meters for the sky (Which is incorrect) this in turn fools the auto ISO. Spot metering is not an option either as trying to keep the spot meter on a bird moving across a frame is impossible. For average scenes auto ISO is a good tool but sadly for my type of work its a no no unless the bird or animal is on the ground in a scene that is lit by average light conditions. In essence Auto ISO is only as good as the exposure meter and that is calibrated to expose an 18% grey scene.
What a waste of a comment! I see you put a lot of helpful info out on your channel too! Maybe you should keep your opinions to yourself until you're actually contributing a little bit!
Watched many videos on this subject, this was the best one. Thanks
Happy to help!
Great video! As someone who is new to photography I've always been afraid of ISO being too high on my m50. The point you made about having a sharp 'grainy' picture is better than not having one at all really makes sense. Thanks
Thanks, and thanks for watching!
I frequently meet sports photographers who tell me they use full manual because you can't trust the meter. They then explain that they set Aperture to wide open, select 1/1000 or similar to freeze the motion. Then they point the camera at the field/player and adjust the ISO until the display in the camera says 0. The "display" in the camera is the meter reading...
I use ISO Auto in my sports photography because lighting varies across the playing field, and through the day. A game the starts in direct sun, can end at night under lights. Auto ISO handles these changes wonderfully.
Good point. In many situations, like under controlled lighting, you can lock your setting in manually and just shoot away. But the auto iso is great for changing conditions.
Thanks Eric very useful info definitely give this a try
Happy to help Paul, thanks!
I fully agree with you. Another good reason for auto ISO is what happened to me quite a lot: taking fotos inside a building (e.g. a dark church) during sightseeing trip, and then you step out of the dark into the bright sunlight and just forget to adjust the ISO - all shots now taken at high ISO, unneccessarily. And, during sports event there is no other way than auto ISO, with those shutter speed boundaries set in camera before the shooting.
Definitely an easy way to make sure everything is exposed properly.
Thank you,,,,now that im back shooting I can try that. I was afraid of trying it with fast changing stage lights wondering if the camera could figure out proper ISO. I need to try this technique in a tech-rehearsal shoot to feel more secure. Thank you for your detailed talk!
Try it out first but I think you’ll like using it!
I had no idea this was a thing!! Thanks Eric! I love this! I’ve already set it up on the new 90D. I just upgraded from a T3i and this camera has LOTS of features the oldie but goodie didn’t have. Still learning about this FANTASTIC camera. This is a very useful tip. Good stuff!
That’s great to hear, happy to help!!
Can you use auto on canon r100 cuz there’s no settings on here to do auto :(
totally agree with choice of auto ISO in run and gun situations. This premise is basically like shooting in aperture or shutter priority and basically with modern technology and newer cameras, irrespsctive of sensor size, the cameras do well even at high ISOs. Great video and thanks for sharing.
Yup exactly right! Thanks for the feedback and thanks for watching!
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On my Nikon D810, my auto-iso always let's in a stop more of light than the shot really needs making it often overexposed for my tastes. I set my compensation at -1 stop - now it's perfect!!!
Great info Eric! I remember you made another video related to this topic where you compared photos with auto ISO and manual settings and it was very helpful. It would have been great in this video if you could have posted some comparative photos at night of handheld/manual settings with slow shutter speed, and handheld/auto iso to illustrate your point. I have the Canon T3i, M50, and R, and I feel that in the crop sensor cameras, the lower ISO image with a little blur can often (not always of course) seem better than the sharper but much noisier high ISO image. Not so with the full frame though, the low-light capabilities of the sensor in the R seem to make it much more acceptable to use the auto iso settings. Anyway, thanks for your videos, keep posting!
Thanks. It’s really about finding the balance between shutter speed and iso noise, but I can’t really see any situation where a blurry image at iso 400 would be better than a sharp image at iso 800. I agree that on the smaller cameras the high iso performance is much weaker to the point that the image is useless and you might as well have a blurry one that maybe looks artsy or something.
you can also set your ISO to not go past a certain ISO, 1600 max, 3200 max wherever you want that ISO to top out at. I shoot auto ISO all the time.
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I have a canon RP, I have a minimum shutter speed set to 125, but when I shoot, the camera ignores the settings. What’s going on?
In the ISO menu settings, check the maximum ISO using Auto. Also make sure your ISO is set to Auto. When you use that if your shutter speed hits 125 and then the ISO maxes out, you will get a shutter speed slower than 125.
Thanks Eric. BTW, when you mentioned the rule of thumb for using a shutter speed equal to your focal length, should I assume that to be for full frame equivalent focal length? I assume you need to include your crop factor in that.
You’re right, definitely take the crop factor into account when figuring that rule of thumb. Thanks!
great help thanks very much stay safe see ya
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I'd say I'm in auto-iso on my Canon M5 pretty much all the time unless I am doing landscape or fireworks. I wish it had a minimum shutter speed setting like more expensive cameras do, but I go manual mode and set my shutter and aperture and then if the exposure isn't what I want I use the exposure compensation dial on the top of the camera which I can easily change with the dial on top while keeping the camera up to my eye. I shoot a lot of my daughter horseback riding and so often am switching between backlight and front light in the sunlight within seconds as she travels around a course and auto iso allows me to handle this without constantly adjusting and missing shots. Even on an M5 the ISO range is good enough, and I'd rather a slightly noisier shot with the action frozen than over or under exposed shots as the lighting changed.
Thanks for the videos as always!
That’s a good technique and a good work around when you can’t set the minimum speed. Thanks for the info!
Great video. I love auto iso!
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Thanks for this. Question - if shooting in manual mode, isn't shutter speed locked in at whatever you have set it at manually? Does the minimum shutter speed setting you set mean that the actual shutter speed used will be increased from your manual setting if you have the minimum shutter speed set to a speed that is higher than your manual setting? I am shooting an R6 and that minimum shutter speed setting does not seem to be available when shooting in manual mode. Do I have the wrong? Still, even without that feature in manual mode, I too like shooting in auto iso at least for action type stuff because to me it speeds me up and I would rather be controlling shutter speed and f/stops which are the most important creative adjustments in my opinion.
If you are shooting in manual mode, the minimum shutter speed setting is definitely not available. Your aperture and shutter speed will be whatever you said it to be and you can still use auto ISO, but it won’t adjust the shutter speed. The minimum shutter speed setting is for when you were shooting in aperture priority.
Been using auto iso since I got my Canon M50 last year, and have capped it at 3200. Wish it did have a minimum shutter setting but in those circumstances I either just set the camera on shutter priority or put to manual. One of the best improvements in the last few years.
It’s definitely a huge plus. We talk about megapixels and resolution and stuff all the time but sometimes it’s the little bits of technology that make a big difference too.
Totally agree, it's a technique I most often use when shoting birds in flight. Birds move a lot faster than one thinks so 1,000 of a second is often the slowest shutter speed I can use combined with an f stop to give me a sufficient depth of field I can live with could be f8. The only way to make this work is to use Auto ISO and even then, in the Summer months I may well have to use an ND filter to dial the exposure down !
Great point thanks for sharing that!
For video the shutter speed usually follows the 180 rule where the shutter speed is twice the FPS - so if you are shooting 50 FPS, shutter should be 100 - so the shutter needs to be fixed and I guess for fixed static photography the focal length rule comes into play but in agreement the shutter speed often needs to be set and the aperture might relate to the look you want - ie blurry background or all in focus so often the aperture and shutter need to be fixed - so the auto iso gives a nice easy solution to maintain the fixed aperture and fixed shutter speed. I love auto iso as well and from the perspective of shooting video its great as well
Great info, thanks!
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What if your using flash. Would u still use auto iso?
I don't think that should matter if you are shooting in TTL.
Sharp images is my first consideration.
Sorry gotta ask. Who's the snowman in the background? 😂😂😂😂 Great tip
If I'm remembering correctly he's from the movie Frozen!
Fantastic! At last someone who instructs to 'normal' people & doesn't assume they know all the technical 'speak'
Thanks!
Sadly as a wildlife snapper auto ISO is pretty useless, its not the fault of auto ISO but the fault of the camera's exposure meter and the way its calibrated because when I point to the sky the exposure meter is fooled and meters for the sky (Which is incorrect) this in turn fools the auto ISO. Spot metering is not an option either as trying to keep the spot meter on a bird moving across a frame is impossible. For average scenes auto ISO is a good tool but sadly for my type of work its a no no unless the bird or animal is on the ground in a scene that is lit by average light conditions. In essence Auto ISO is only as good as the exposure meter and that is calibrated to expose an 18% grey scene.
Yeah for your kind of shooting your probably better manually exposing
@@BillEricPhotography Yes, I use full manual control, I dip into auto ISO but it is a very rare thing for me to use.
What a waste of 8 minutes.
What a waste of a comment! I see you put a lot of helpful info out on your channel too! Maybe you should keep your opinions to yourself until you're actually contributing a little bit!