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Jenik and Robert, you should try shying away from AWB setting. If you are at a particular event that has the same lighting throughout, your camera might throw you a curve ball and select a different WB to the previous ones. Selecting the correct WB makes fluidity in WB more appealing, at least IMHO.
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A77V

• Aperture priority
• Multi-segment metering
• Centre spot AF or (rarely) Wide
• AF-S (also got AF-A set to Direct Manual Focusing), focus peaking set to low/red
• Single shooting mode (or 12 FPS, rarely)
• Manual ISO control (usually between ISO100 and 400)
• AWB
• Front dial controls aperture, rear dial exposure compensation
• SSS on
• Face detection on, object tracking on (no idea what for, I never use it), DRO on
• Lens compensation on
• GPS off
• RAW mode
• For (rare) JPG shooting: Creative style set to neutral, sharpness +1, rest at 0
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Is sharpness and other FX settings in the 7D applied to RAW or only to JPEs?
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Originally posted by rickztahone rickztahone wrote:

Jenik and Robert, you should try shying away from AWB setting. If you are at a particular event that has the same lighting throughout, your camera might throw you a curve ball and select a different WB to the previous ones. Selecting the correct WB makes fluidity in WB more appealing, at least IMHO.

My use of AWB is deliberate since I prefer to set WB during RAW conversion when I can afford to. In cases when I must, I do change, but always default to AWB.
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Can I bump this thread? Seems no one is interested in camera settings anymore?
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It was thanks to this thread that I discovered I can adjust contrast, saturation, and sharpness. I can't wait to see what that does for different scenarios.
 



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Anybody else prepared to post their preffered settings on A77?
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I was so happy to find that I could adjust my LCD's contrast, saturation and sharpness but be careful though. If you use Photo Mechanic to cull your work like I do, I think the JPEGs it uses for preview are affected by these settings and your Jpegs preview might look significantly different than what the RAW files look. I was scratching my head and pulling my hair out after last wedding trying to figure out what the heck happened to my Raw files before I realized I had changed my LCD settings :)

Just so I'm not completely Off topic, my settings are:

a77 Manual Mode
RAW only
Daylight WB most of the time - rarely use AWB
Continuous Shooting Low
AF-S most of the time, switch to AF-C for moving object
Local AF area, focus and recompose if shooting f/4 and lower but I shoot wider aperture most of the time and getting used to moving the focus point as I need
DRO Auto

Priority Setup: Release
AF with shutter
Eye Start AF off
Peaking Level High, Red
LV Display ON
AEL toggle
AF/MF toggle
Smart Telecon button = Focus Magnifier
Front Dial SS, Rear Dial F/no
Front curtain shutter I think I had mine off
Menu start Previous so I can turn on/off SSS in exactly 4 clicks
A77ii
Rokinon 8mm
Tokina 11-16 2.8
Sony 16-50 2.8, 50 1.8, CZ 24-70 2.8, CZ 85 1.4, 70-200 2.8 G, 70-400 G
Minolta 50 1.7, 24-50, 35-105, 100-200
Tamron 90 2.8
HVL-F42AM, Yongnuos
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