How To Change Shutter Speed On Nikon D90

Adjusting Shutter Speed on D80

Apr 2, 2007

Hey guys, i'm still new with my camera and done a bit of reading in the manual, but I am a scrap confused on how to adjust the shutter speed. I am shooting on "P" and take pretty much figured out how to adapt everything else. I'm trying to get the right speed to shoot in lower lite situations. Thanks guys.

xLarry • Forum Member • Posts: 79

Re: Adjusting Shutter Speed on D80

P is program fashion and the camera selects both aperture and shutter speed. You must use the S mode....South is for Shutter Priority, ready the shutter speed and the camera selects the Aperture. Shutter speed is changed with the rear cycle.
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Larry

Dan Bolger • Senior Member • Posts: 2,879

Re: Adjusting Shutter Speed on D80

radicalmatzo wrote:

Hey guys, i'thousand still new with my camera and washed a scrap of reading in
the manual, but I am a bit dislocated on how to conform the shutter
speed. I am shooting on "P" and take pretty much figured out how
to conform everything else. I'm trying to get the correct speed to
shoot in lower light situations. Thank you guys.

Hello RM

In "P" mode the camera adjust both shutter and discontinuity. Y'all tin use Flexable Plan mode, but then you select the discontinuity and the camera sets a shutter speed for a proper exposure.

If y'all want to control shutter speed y'all need to either be in "S" or "M".

I woul dsuggest rereading pages 47 to 51 of the manual

practiced luck

Dan
London, Canada

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Re: Adjusting Shutter Speed on D80

Thats what I idea with the "P" setting. I was just having an issue concluding nighttime taking shots in a room in my business firm with low light. I would conform my ISO college and toyed with that, but kept getting eithre blurry or very unsharp pics. I was figuring that if i adjusted the ISO that the camera in "P" would accept care of the rest.

Dan Bolger • Senior Fellow member • Posts: two,879

Re: Adjusting Shutter Speed on D80

radicalmatzo wrote:

Thats what I idea with the "P" setting. I was only having an
issue last dark taking shots in a room in my firm with low low-cal.
I would adjust my ISO higher and toyed with that, but kept getting
eithre blurry or very unsharp pics. I was figuring that if i
adjusted the ISO that the camera in "P" would take intendance of the rest.

If you are in low light, and using felxable plan mode the camera will give you a shutter speed that is probably to slow to hand hold.

If you want to play around with it in low light, try Transmission mode. Open the aperture up equally broad as information technology goes, look through the view finder and see the exposure confined Every bit you suit the shutter speed upward and downwardly you will see the exposrue bar move from correct to left as you select a slower shutter speed. When the bar is centered you lot have a proper exposure. Just if the light is very low your shutter speed will probably be 1/30 to mabe even 1 secod to get a correct exposure.

You lot tin can help this a bit by raising the ISO and see what consequence it volition accept.

It a good way to larn nigh your camrea. All the same in very depression light you will not be able to get a sharp movie without a tripod.

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Re: Adjusting Shutter Speed on D80

So if the camera is in "Grand" the shutter arrange is still the back wheel, or the front wheel?

Helen • Veteran Member • Posts: vii,606

Re: Adjusting Shutter Speed on D80

radicalmatzo wrote:

So if the photographic camera is in "M" the shutter adjust is still the back
bicycle, or the front bicycle?

Unless you've changed them around in the custom functions, the rear bike changes the shutter speed and the front wheel changes the aperture, in Thou mode. In South mode, the rear bike changes the shutter speed and the front wheel changes nothing (in the exposure settings, anyway) and in A way, the front end bike changes the aperture whilst the rear wheel does zip to the exposure settings on its own. In other words, as information technology comes, the D80 e'er uses the front wheel to alter discontinuity if the mode allows it to be changes, and the rear wheel for shutter speeds, with the same proviso.

Re: Adjusting Shutter Speed on D80

In respond to Helen • April 2, 2007

you lot are awesome thank you! Helen, what do yous usually shoot in?

Mark53 • Veteran Member • Posts: half dozen,583

Dan, M will not access different settings...

Dan Bolger wrote:

radicalmatzo wrote:

Thats what I thought with the "P" setting. I was just having an
result last nighttime taking shots in a room in my house with low light.
I would adjust my ISO higher and toyed with that, but kept getting
eithre blurry or very unsharp pics. I was figuring that if i
adjusted the ISO that the camera in "P" would have care of the rest.

Radicalmatzo is correct here - if he bumps ISO up, P mode will accept advantage of higher shutter speeds, just like any way will.

If you are in low light, and using felxable program mode the photographic camera
volition requite you a shutter speed that is probably to wearisome to hand agree.

Flexible programme or non, the camera in low lite will probably exist giving you broad open aperture anyway and the fastest shutter speed available at the ISO setting.

If you want to play around with it in depression light, endeavour Transmission fashion.
Open the aperture up as broad as it goes, expect through the view
finder and run across the exposure confined

No divergence here from turning the command punch for flexible program in P fashion. Chiliad fashion will not suddenly give you apertures or shutter speeds that will result in a good exposure that couldn't be obtained in P, S or A.

Equally you adjust the shutter speed upward
and downwards you volition see the exposrue bar move from right to left as
you select a slower shutter speed. When the bar is centered you
have a proper exposure. Simply if the light is very depression your shutter
speed will probably be 1/30 to mabe even 1 secod to get a correct
exposure.

Yes... And how volition the final result be different from P mode?

You tin help this a scrap by raising the ISO and come across what effect it
will have.

And again aye.... higher ISO settings will allow wider apertures and/or faster shutter speeds. Of course that is true in whatsoever mode, P, Due south, A or G.

Dan Bolger • Senior Fellow member • Posts: 2,879

No Mark, just it will tell yous more

In reply to Mark53 • Apr 2, 2007

Marker

Afterwards reading my post again, I don't recall I did the best chore in explain why I had recommended Thousand mode to radicalmatzo.

In P fashion in very low light all you become is a "Depression" reading if the camera cannot get a proper exposure (and yes you are correct about the discontinuity being wide open up). But you do not know what your shutter speed is. You can meet information technology after the shot in the LCD, but it after the fact. The camera volition take the shot, just it will be blurry or not sharp like radicalmatzo was getting.

In M mode you can run across what the discontinuity and shutter speed are and also how far off a correct exposure y'all are with the meter. One time you have a correct exposure co-ordinate to the meter, you tin then up the ISO and see how it effects your shutter.

I read Understanding Exposure and a few other good books, and they say to try and tinker with shutter, aperture, and ISO to see the effects. Even thought I understood what they were saying, it really hitting home seeing it while I was using the camera.

I just felt that K mode in this instance would have assistance radicalmatzo to improve understand those relationships.

Cheers
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Dan
London, Canada

Nikon D80
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Helen • Veteran Fellow member • Posts: 7,606

Re: Adjusting Shutter Speed on D80

radicalmatzo wrote:

y'all are awesome thank you! Helen, what practise you usually shoot in?

Glad to help. P and A are my usual modes - purely a personal preference, based on my history, I recollect (I started out with an discontinuity-priority simply photographic camera in the early eighties, so I discover that more intuitive than shutter priority [I empathize shutter priority - South - it only "feels" the wrong way around], and I only employ M when I'm feeling less lazy!).

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