>Take notes on whatever you find most convenient, there's no definite standard. To subsequently free yourself from the note-taking, look for patterns in the way you do different subjects. Judging from my own experience, I'd say that for similar subjects, you will find that you will tend to use the same settings most of the time. Once recognised, it becomes easy to remember.
>hth, Jostein I find this very good advice. I actually bought a tiny tape recorder, thinking to record aperture/shutter speed (especially for positive film) so I could learn from it (since I do those manually). Well, I've only used it about twice -- when first starting. (I'll have to have something else to do with the recorder.) Just carrying a camera and lenses was enough, having to carry a recorder also was too much. Also it was not helpful for spontaneous shots, and tedious when doing more planned shots. And often I was repeatedly using the same aperture and shutter speed in similar situations. So when I reviewed what I had recorded, I found it wasn't really telling me anything I wasn't noticing for myself. Though I wouldn't mind that aspect of a DSLR, having the info. for each pic recorded. I recently took some shots using an IS lens (Canon) at the beach shooting some at both 1/60 and 1/30 handheld. I wanted to see if I could shoot 1/30 handheld with an IS. A lot of the shots have come out blurry, being able to see which were 1/30 would be helpful -- i.e. as with digital recording. However, OTOH, I can pretty much guess which of the ones *are* the 1/30s -- the blurry ones. Marnie aka Doe :-)
