ISO SETTINGS IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS
Always use the lowest possible ISO value.
I’m in the last wave of photographers who learned to photograph with film cameras, and I can fully appreciate the fact that I can change my camera’s sensitivity to light, on the run, with one button. I’ve been photographing for about 13 years—almost half of it with a film camera. Slow film speed was the biggest challenge in bird photography. Nobody in their right mind used film speed over ISO 400. If you wanted beautifully reproduced colors with no grain, you had to use Fuji Velvia, a very slow film with an ISO of 50. Digital cameras today produce the same image quality at ISO 1000 as Velvia does at ISO 50, which is the biggest single reason behind the revolution ...
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