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using a 18% grey card. how do you lock the exspodure setting on a canon 60d
 
You press "Exposure Lock" button on the back. The one marked with "*"
 
is there away to lock it for a period of time instead of before every time i take a pic
 
Put the camera on M

Meter the card properly

Set the camera to the meters suggestion

Tweak out from there as needed
 
Watersedge said:
is there away to lock it for a period of time instead of before every time i take a pic
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You will need to switch to manual (M) mode for that:

1. Enable spot metering
2. Switch to M mode
3. POint your camera to the grey target
4. Adjust F-number and shutter speed untill exposure slider in your viewfinder is at 0
 
Watersedge said:
isnt that spot metering
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no, spot metering is selected by pressing a button on the top plate and selecting the metering pattern, evaluative, centre weighted average, partial or spot as you want, using the dial next to the shutter release
 
Ian, please don't take this the wrong way but why don't you invest in some books and spend some time looking on YouTube?

You have asked plenty of questions that are answered in the 60D manual or the 60D field guide.

If you have an iPhone or iPad, there are some excellent videos about the 60D.

All of these will fully explain how to use the camera etc and I hope this helps :).

Andy

Ps, I thought you were a wedding photographer?
 
You can hold the same lock for multiple shots by holding the * button. But to be totally honest, I think manual is better solution.
 
Watersedge said:
so i have to keep using it in manual
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Of course you do. The auto modes are meant to constantly adjust exposure automatically. You can tweak things with compensation, or lock it temporarily with the AE lock button, but if you want a permanent lock then use manual.

If you think of manual as a set & lock mode, that's actually a better description.
 
Thats the charitable explanation :bang:

Incidentally what are you planning on using the 18% grey card for ? - it won't guarantee a well exposed shot in all circumstances - particularly not if we are dealing with girls wearing big white dresses.
 
big soft moose said:
Thats the charitable explanation :bang:

Incidentally what are you planning on using the 18% grey card for ? - it won't guarantee a well exposed shot in all circumstances - particularly not if we are dealing with girls wearing big white dresses.
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It will, if you use it properly - particularly for girls wearing big white dresses :thinking:
 
HoppyUK said:
It will, if you use it properly - particularly for girls wearing big white dresses :thinking:
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well yes it might if you know what you are doing - but he's talking about metering once and locking the exposure for all shots - which is a dodgy thing to do in changeable light , especially with challenging subjects. (burnt out whites here we come)

secondly the grey card has to be in the same light as you subjects - I have an awful vision of him metering from the card flat on the ground then locking that exposure for all the group shots.

thirdly unless he knows how to select spot metering he'll struggle to take a grey card reading at group range - i can foresee him pointing the camera at a grey card which makes up only a small area of the shot at group range with it still set to 95% evaluative

also if he's got a bright sky theres a good chance that spot metering from the grey card propperly will give a properly exposed group but a burnt out sky (where as those with more nouse might choose to expose for the sky and fill flash the group)

Personally I can't remember the last time I used the grey card - if i want to go that route i'd usually pick a midtone in the shot to spot meter , then use the histogram to adjust exposure to make sure i'm shooting to the right, but not clipping the whites.

my point was that while Hoppy is correct that the grey card is a useful asset for those that know how to use it , its not a substitute for a decent understanding of exposure and associate photographic techniques , particularly for someone who is just starting out.
 
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If its like the 600d (and I think it is) the setting is in your menu panel. About the third one from the left.
You just open the setting in the menu after taking pic, select the pic and then confirm selection. Doing it this way you dont have to set it for each shoot, it will be held until you change it of turn off your slr. Of course you change it as your lighting changes.
 
shaylou said:
If its like the 600d (and I think it is) the setting is in your menu panel. About the third one from the left.
You just open the setting in the menu after taking pic, select the pic and then confirm selection. Doing it this way you dont have to set it for each shoot, it will be held until you change it of turn off your slr. Of course you change it as your lighting changes.
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Isn't that for setting custom WB rather than exposure metering?
 
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