For grins, put my 5D2 in 'green box' mode ...

BlueDevil08 wrote in post #12976859
It's only one of the world's most famous Rally Cars ever...

Except the feminine POS that you buy isn't a rally car.

skygod44 wrote in post #12976214
Snyderman, well done!

This proves that anyone could buy a dSLR (up to the 5D2/7D bodies) and use it like a $100 P&S!

I always suspected this was true, but would rather put my head in a mangle than try out green box mode!

LOL! Double-Extra credit for using the work 'mangle' in a sentence. My g'ma had one of those!

dave

mtimber wrote in post #12977026
Started an example thread here:

https://photography-on-the.net …p?p=12977024#po​st12977024

Cool. I'll participate if I can get some time to shoot something around the house this week.

dave

jay125 wrote in post #12972366
if i'm not mistaken, anyone who puts a 5D2 in green box is required to surrender the camera... :P

LOL! Word!!

Why they put the green box on the 5D2 assuming anyone who would purchase it would use it, but not put an in camera flash on it assuming anyone who purchased it wouldn't use it is "???" to me...

Honestly it sort of helped me out when I first started. I would take a shot in auto, see what camera chose, then switch to M and adjust to what felt the shot needed. I notice in auto it always prefers to pop up flash when most times I wouldn't.

I will admit I think it has its place, even on higher end models. A great example is the other day I was in my upstairs bathroom when I heard a crazy shreek from outside. I looked out the window and saw a hawk going after a crow that was squaking on the ground. I hurried up and sprinted downstairs, snagged my camera and threw on my tele lens, and on the way to the door flipped it into auto. I took one quick shot and then was lucky enough that the hawk stayed perched and allowed me a dozen shots in M mode. The auto mode shot wasn't as good as the rest, but certainly wasn't terrible. And I say that getting a shot that is just decent is better than nothing at all.

mileslong24 wrote in post #12980095
Honestly it sort of helped me out when I first started. I would take a shot in auto, see what camera chose, then switch to M and adjust to what felt the shot needed. I notice in auto it always prefers to pop up flash when most times I wouldn't.

I will admit I think it has its place, even on higher end models. A great example is the other day I was in my upstairs bathroom when I heard a crazy shreek from outside. I looked out the window and saw a hawk going after a crow that was squaking on the ground. I hurried up and sprinted downstairs, snagged my camera and threw on my tele lens, and on the way to the door flipped it into auto. I took one quick shot and then was lucky enough that the hawk stayed perched and allowed me a dozen shots in M mode. The auto mode shot wasn't as good as the rest, but certainly wasn't terrible. And I say that getting a shot that is just decent is better than nothing at all.

Your 5DII has pop-up flash? Can I have a link to the thread with the mod please?

mileslong24 wrote in post #12980095
Honestly it sort of helped me out when I first started. I would take a shot in auto, see what camera chose, then switch to M and adjust to what felt the shot needed. I notice in auto it always prefers to pop up flash when most times I wouldn't.

I will admit I think it has its place, even on higher end models. A great example is the other day I was in my upstairs bathroom when I heard a crazy shreek from outside. I looked out the window and saw a hawk going after a crow that was squaking on the ground. I hurried up and sprinted downstairs, snagged my camera and threw on my tele lens, and on the way to the door flipped it into auto. I took one quick shot and then was lucky enough that the hawk stayed perched and allowed me a dozen shots in M mode. The auto mode shot wasn't as good as the rest, but certainly wasn't terrible. And I say that getting a shot that is just decent is better than nothing at all.

Yep, Auto mode sucks a lot of the time, when I first got my camera I used it and the flash would pop up in brightly lit area's and bright sunny days where no fill was needed. I was like WTF I wont touch auto anymore its manual or nothing.

eskimochaos wrote in post #12980126
Your 5DII has pop-up flash? Can I have a link to the thread with the mod please?

I don't think he said he had a 5DII, but was speaking of DSLRs in general.

eskimochaos wrote in post #12980982

I see you know where the smilies are and since you didn't use one in your last post you must have thought he was talking about a 5d2.

I always thought the 'green box' mode was purely for the jessops staff to use when showing the camera to customers!

BlueDevil08 wrote in post #12976859
It's only one of the world's most famous Rally Cars ever...

Mini Cooper S is a great car! One of the most fun cars I have ever driven, in a manual tranny of course!

jdpence wrote in post #12972668
I know a lot of people who use their DSLR's as point and shoots

The majority of them are probably Nikon owners You see, this is just another example of why Canon is superior to Nikon - by providing pretty useless auto mode, Canon cameras force you into creative modes. Nikons, on the other hand, have much better auto exposure, my FIL has several thousand shots, some of which are very decent, all done in full auto with D40. Just try this with XTi.