A Lesson learned

[Crypto]

Since I got my Rebel XT, I've played with just about every adjustment/setting I could find. I'm new at this, so I want to learn as much as I can. Well, I went on a hike today, took over a hundred fifty photos, only to find out when I got home, that I forgot to put the ISO back to 100. It was on 1600!! Every shot was grainy. I salvaged a few.
Atleast it was a beautiful day!
I guess I need to get into the habit of checking all the settings that do not reset when the power turns off.
Do you folks have a check list you use before going out?

[dale65bama]

That's about it! I always look at the exposure data displayed when I shoot. If you are in good light and have really high shutter speeds, that should offer you a pretty good clue! Might want to add "Check Memory Card" to your list. I have shot "film" before with no film in the camera, and I once tripped off a bunch of exposures on a digital with no CF card. Stuff happens!

[jimsolt]

Since I got my Rebel XT, I've played with just about every adjustment/setting I could find. I'm new at this, so I want to learn as much as I can. Well, I went on a hike today, took over a hundred fifty photos, only to find out when I got home, that I forgot to put the ISO back to 100. It was on 1600!! Every shot was grainy. I salvaged a few.
Atleast it was a beautiful day!
I guess I need to get into the habit of checking all the settings that do not reset when the power turns off.
Do you folks have a check list you use before going out?
You didn't check the playback/histogram on any of the 150 photos before you got home? That should have been a certain tipoff that something was wrong.

Jim

[Crypto]

You didn't check the playback/histogram on any of the 150 photos before you got home? That should have been a certain tipoff that something was wrong.

Jim

Yep, I sure did. I haven't quite learned how to read the histogram effectively yet, but at a glance, most all the shots arched reasonably in the center and didn't really spike on either side. Well, from my brief reading on histograms, thats kind of what I've been looking for? If I'm way off, please let me know. Plus, I used the P on the creative side quite a bit, so I assumed the camera was helping me out..well, maybe it was , thats why the histograms weren't really bad. The images looked fine on the LCD and not that bad on the monitor, but certainly not the quality I've gotten used too at 100 ISO. Infact, I couldn't even clean some of them up at all in RSE.
I just have lots to learn, at least I'm having fun doing it. Sux to have to delete all but like 5 tho.

thanks

[jimsolt]

Yep, I sure did. I haven't quite learned how to read the histogram effectively yet, but at a glance, most all the shots arched reasonably in the center and didn't really spike on either side. Well, from my brief reading on histograms, thats kind of what I've been looking for? If I'm way off, please let me know. Plus, I used the P on the creative side quite a bit, so I assumed the camera was helping me out..well, maybe it was , thats why the histograms weren't really bad. The images looked fine on the LCD and not that bad on the monitor, but certainly not the quality I've gotten used too at 100 ISO. Infact, I couldn't even clean some of them up at all in RSE.
I just have lots to learn, at least I'm having fun doing it. Sux to have to delete all but like 5 tho.

thanks
It's hard for me to believe at first that the histogram would look OK, but I guess it is possible. If in fact that's true, rather than delete the photos, why don't you try some of the noise reduction programs. You might save some of them. Others here will be more helpful if you decide to go that route.

Good luck

Jim

[Art Rodriguez]

I have done the exact same thing you did. I don't have a check list, but I make sure after the first picture I take on a new shoot I check the info. On my Digital Rebel it tells me at what ISO the picture was taken. Hope this helps.

Art

[tim]

Everyone does it, lucky the XT isn't too bad at ISO1600, print them at 6*4 you'll never know, even 8*12 should be pretty good :)

[soupdragon]

I must be one of the very few but, I have never used mine on anything but ISO 100, so it's never been a problem.

[jfrancho]

I must be one of the very few but, I have never used mine on anything but ISO 100, so it's never been a problem.Your subjects must fall into a very narrow category.

[Crypto]

It's hard for me to believe at first that the histogram would look OK, but I guess it is possible. If in fact that's true, rather than delete the photos, why don't you try some of the noise reduction programs. You might save some of them. Others here will be more helpful if you decide to go that route.

Good luck

Jim

Thanks, I've already deleted them. Here are a few that I decided to keep with histograms embedded. As you'll see, the shadows are just too grainy.
Would these be acceptable histo's?
BTW-I made no adjustments to the raw or the jpeg.


http://home.comcast.net/~snapit/Histo2IMG_0959-01.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~snapit/Histo3IMG_0960-01.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~snapit/Histo1_IMG_0989-01.jpg