D300 Auto iso?

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Hi all how do you activate this? Just got a D300 today :woot:but can't suss how to switch to auto iso , tis easy on my D200 but buggered if i can on D300 :help: Oh & how do you display all 51 focal points in the view finder?
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Yes i've read the manual but still can't suss it:bang:
 
Shooting Menu -> ISO sensitivity settings.

There's a switch on the back for choosing single point/small area/all focus points. You choose the number of points in menu a3. You don't see them all through the viewfinder though, so maybe that's not what you were asking.
 
The first thing i did when i got my D300 was to turn it off ! it whacks itself up on long exposures resulting in increased noise.
 
Mud said:
Shooting Menu -> ISO sensitivity settings.

There's a switch on the back for choosing single point/small area/all focus points. You choose the number of points in menu a3. You don't see them all through the viewfinder though, so maybe that's not what you were asking.
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cheers for that got auto iso now .
yeah selected the focal points in a3 but only see 1 point through the view finder on my D200 you see all 11 :thinking:
 
Graham00 said:
The first thing i did when i got my D300 was to turn it off ! it whacks itself up on long exposures resulting in increased noise.
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Not really using for long exposures, mainly motorsport so manual f no: & shutter speed & let the iso sort itself.
 
Auto-ISO is a neat thing, I use it a fair bit and it is rather good but I did read somewhere that it can be slower to calculate than with it off, so in theory it might not be a good plan for motorsport.

I mainly use it when I am using my TC with the 300 f4, because when you do that you want to stop it down a bit, but you still want to control the shutter speed. In this case, its a real help.
 
I use auto ISo about 80% of the time,great system for what I mainly do.
 
Graham00 said:
The first thing i did when i got my D300 was to turn it off ! it whacks itself up on long exposures resulting in increased noise.
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You can limit the maximum ISO in auto mode to whatever you want and the camera won't go above that....
 
desantnik said:
Auto-ISO is a neat thing, I use it a fair bit and it is rather good but I did read somewhere that it can be slower to calculate than with it off, so in theory it might not be a good plan for motorsport.

I mainly use it when I am using my TC with the 300 f4, because when you do that you want to stop it down a bit, but you still want to control the shutter speed. In this case, its a real help.
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Just started to experiment using it on my D200 , having recently got myself a 300mm F4 AFS & wanted to try on the D300 but couldn't suss how to set it up, a TC is also on my list but not for a while as im now skint.:D
 
I've got the auto-ISO bits on "my menu", so can't remember where they are in the normal menus without rumaging. "my menu" has all the bits I need in it.

Another top feature!
 
Keep it turned off as it selects high numbers resulting in crap pics due to noise.
The only time i use it is when i am in difficult light and i then select the higgest value the camera can choose, to prevent it doing something silly.
 
Graham00 said:
The first thing i did when i got my D300 was to turn it off ! it whacks itself up on long exposures resulting in increased noise.
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Me too, I think it's okay to set it at a sensible upper limit as the camera is always too eager to go north with the ISO. I think "Auto ISO" still works in manual mode as well, which seems a bit strange.
 
Can't say I've noticed it doing that.... but then again my photos are mainly outdoors daytime... seems to work it out just as accurately as any other way and as I said earlier, I need to set an aperture value when using the TC and motorsport demands control of the shutter speed.

You could go full manual, but thats not always convenient in changing light levels... I'd sooner go auto-ISO than muck up a critical moment whilst fiddling with manual ISO adjustments....

Probably fine for fully manual if you subjects aren't fleeting 100mph+ things
 
evo456 said:
. I think "Auto ISO" still works in manual mode as well, which seems a bit strange.
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It does - thats what I am describing. Manually set aperture and shutter and let the ISO float with the metering working it out for you.
 
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