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Using Manual mode - 5D Tutorial
From the course: Canon 5D Mark III Essential Training
Using Manual mode
Sometimes you might have a very peculiar creative vision, or be facing a particularly complex exposure situation; maybe you're shooting a scene, and you want shallow depth of field, and you want to blur some motion in the scene, and you don't care if the whole thing is a little overexposed. Or maybe you're used to working with a hand-held light meter, and you were using it to calculate exposure settings, which you then need to dial in by hand. Manual mode gives you full control of both shutter speed and aperture on your camera. You can dial in any settings you want, regardless of whether the camera's meter thinks they've a good idea. It might flash warnings to you about how it thinks you are making bad decisions, but it will still take the shot. M on the mode dial is Manual mode, so I am just going to press the lock button, and move that over there. Now, notice on my screen, I haven't done any metering, but it's already showing me a shutter speed, and an aperture. That's because the…
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Exploring metering modes3m 26s
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Using exposure lock1m 22s
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Working with focus points and metering3m 47s
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Exploring Aperture Priority mode3m
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Using the depth of field preview button2m 40s
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Using Shutter Priority mode3m 26s
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Using Manual mode3m 27s
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Using auto exposure bracketing6m 3s
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Exploring Bulb mode2m 34s
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Working with the Auto Lighting Optimizer1m 40s
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Correcting lens aberration2m 46s
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Exploring Highlight Tone Priority2m 25s
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Understanding high-dynamic range (HDR)7m 5s
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Creating multiple exposures6m 25s
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Using the mirror lockup feature2m 20s
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