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lens dependent ISO setting


mholtsberg

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There's a rule of thumb that most people can hand-hold a 35mm camera at a speed equal to the reciprocal of the focal length. That is, with a 50mm lens, the slowest a person should try to hand-hold is 1/60 sec; with a 24mm lens, the slowest a person should try to hand-hold is 1/30 sec; etc. (The figures would theoretically be 1/50 sec for a 50, 1/24 sec for a 24; but you can't set those speeds on modern cameras, so take the next fastest speed.)

 

Lens-dependent ISO setting means that the slowest shutter speed the camera will set will be the speed determined by the focal length of the lens, using that rule of thumb. That is, the camera will keep the lowest ISO possible until it would need to go slower than the rule of thumb and the lens in use dictate; when that happens, the camera will use that lowest speed and begin increasing ISO instead of dropping shutter speed further.

 

I hope that helps.

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Thank you, that does help. One more question please. Will that setting work on all lenses for the M8, or only the ones with "coding"?

Needs coding to work as intended. W/o coding, the shutter speeds will just blink in A mode below 1/30s.

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