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Looking at ISO speed settings

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Looking at ISO speed settings

By default, your camera's ISO range goes from 100 to 25600, but your Mark III is actually capable of shooting at an even wider range of ISOs. However, most of the time you'll probably just stick to auto ISO, simply for the ease and flexibility of shooting that it provides. That said, you might want to tweak the auto ISO functions to tailor it to the ISO range that you like. You can adjust all of these from a single menu item. In this second page of my shooting menu, I have something called ISO speed settings, which is a single menu option that gets me a bunch of different ISO related controls. First of all, I can simply set my ISO speed. We get a menu of all the possible ISO speeds here. It's probably the least convenient way to set ISO, but it's there if you happen to find yourself on this menu page when you need to set ISO. Below that, though, things get more interesting. ISO speed range let's me set the range of my ISO settings. By default, they go from 100 to 25600. I'm going to…

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