What the heck.....

[283CID]

Since I am 'cleaning house' of Canon Questions.

My Wife has done a lot of messing around to get comfortable with what I call The Crutch Modes... Portrait, Etc.... *I* just run the P and TV and some AV...

Any experienced comments regarding the Named Modes ??

[DaveB]

The problem with the crutch modes is that various menu and function items that I like to change, like ISO and metering, are not available in the named modes. I don't think manual focus or ND filter is available either.

I suppose that makes them more idiot-proof, but I just find them a pain.

The only named mode I find myself using regularly is the Stich-Assist panoramic mode. Occassionally I'll use movie mode to embarrass the kids.

[283CID]

Thanks for confirming my suspicions!

By the way, I often use the Stitch-Thing....but I don't set it in the camera. I do it after the images are in the camera. In fact, I usually tip up the camera and take 'vertical' images.... Then when I stitch 'em in the 'puter, they wind up more Height.... not the long slim thing you would get if you stitched 3 or 4 in the 'normal' position...

Funny, some of the odd pictures you can get stitching completely non-related images....

[house]

That is an excellent idea for stitching - shooting them verticle to get a larger coverage area. Thanks for the tip-

[283CID]

:wink:

[pradeep1]

Thanks for confirming my suspicions!

By the way, I often use the Stitch-Thing....but I don't set it in the camera. I do it after the images are in the camera. In fact, I usually tip up the camera and take 'vertical' images.... Then when I stitch 'em in the 'puter, they wind up more Height.... not the long slim thing you would get if you stitched 3 or 4 in the 'normal' position...

Funny, some of the odd pictures you can get stitching completely non-related images....

There is a mode in the Canon's Photostitch software that lets you do this with easily. You can take pictures as panes in a window and get both the height and length advantage.

[283CID]

I usually select the images that are the elements of the 'stitch'..... in one of the ZoomBrowser windows. The I click "Edit > Photostitch" ... That opens the Stitch program, and imports my images in One Swelled Foop ... and away we go... If the Stitch doesn't look right...maybe I included one too many.....correct it there...

[dbump]

I'm curious, do you have trouble with varying exposure when not using the camera's pan mode, or do you just set it to M mode?
The pan mode does have a setting to allow you to take a series of pictures in portrait orientation, so you've got more vertical coverage--just hit the right arrow a couple of times when you enter that mode. Works nicely!

Have you seen the Lego Mindstorms automated panorama shooter? http://www.philohome.com/panobot2/panobot2.htm
I'm working on an adaptation for the G2, but my perfectionist attempt to make it pivot around the nodal point (without any wide angle converter) is slowing me down--the center of the tripod thread on the G2 is about 2.75" away from the center of rotation. Bit of a balancing act--both in terms of weight and keeping the mechanism itself out of the FOV.

[283CID]

Whew.... Well, you got me, on most of that. *I* just use P. Tv, and a little Av.... My Child Bride is the one that leans on the Crutches!

I'm happy with those three...

[rgrier]

The "crutch" modes can be useful in some respects as learning tools, set different modes and take note of the settings that are changed on the camera given each mode selected, gives you some idea of how the settings affect results, which you can then apply with greater control in av,tv and M modes :D