MoPhoto Detroit

The Fujifilm X M-5 mirrorless camera was used to snap this pic of my friend Dennis Custer. The in camera skin softening was set to ‘strong’. I mounted a Sirui f/1.2 16 mm prime lens on it and blurred the background nicely. Bokeh. And yet focus was tack sharp.

64 ISO RAW on a Nikon D-850? Sure, but that 45 MP sensor makes for huge file sizes! Sometimes I like to process pics in the field. Recently I shot an event with those settings and the pics were too large for my iPad to import all 100 pics.

The Mode Dial. Scary….not really. If you turn the dial to the white circle with a lightning bolt with a slash through it that’s the automatic without flash setting. To use the flash on auto turn to the green Auto with flash choice. Other modes depicted as graphics are kinda self descriptive. Sports, portraits, kids, flowers are all choices that A.I. does the choosing for you.
M is for Manual. You make all settings choices. A is for Aperture priority. You choose the Aperture and the camera does the rest. S is for Shutter Speed priority. You choose the shutter speed you want and the camera does the other settings. P is for Program mode. More on this later. Guide, Scene, Effects later as well. Some cameras have a bottom ring of choices. Burst mode, timer, etc. I discuss those later as well. For now put your camera on Auto and go shoot shoot shoot. This may be all you need.