ISO 3200 for the 20d

JusticeiroJusticeiro Registered Users Posts: 1,177 Major grins
edited December 29, 2005 in Cameras
Hi folks, I've been looking around for my 20D manual and just can't find it. Is the supposed ability to get ISO 3200 an in built capability, or a hack. If it is a hack, where can I find it?

Thanks.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited December 27, 2005
    It's a custom setting, I forget which. It doesn't say 3200 ISO, it says high ISO or something like that....
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  • FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
    edited December 27, 2005
    Go to page 142 of the manual.

    Briefly, open your menu and go to Custom Function in the orange section of the menu. Hit the setting button then use the dial until it shows that you are at custom function 08. You want to toggle to "on". ISO 3200 will show as "high" when you check ISO on your LCD panel.

    It is great to have it.

    Good luck.

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  • GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited December 27, 2005
    Hey!
    Justiceiro wrote:
    Hi folks, I've been looking around for my 20D manual and just can't find it. Is the supposed ability to get ISO 3200 an in built capability, or a hack. If it is a hack, where can I find it?

    Thanks.

    Go here mid page and you can DL it in a PDF
    http://www.canon-20d.com/#Canon-20D-Specifications
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  • JusticeiroJusticeiro Registered Users Posts: 1,177 Major grins
    edited December 27, 2005
    Got it, and the pdf as well. Thanks a lot guys.

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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited December 27, 2005
    I just got around to looking in the manual and found out how to do the 3200 ISO a few weeks ago.

    I used it over Christmas. I really like it!

    Mine shows as H that is all, just H, after 1600

    probably grain, I don't care. Family stuff, I hate messing with flash! I mean it really made a world of difference. I used my wide angle f4, I think, lens most of the time. Now on a faster lens...............WOW!

    I got some photos that are well worth the grain, no way would they have been possible with a flash.

    Not that a flash isn't useful, I just don't like to mess with it, and when I finally believed that there must be a way to get that 3200 and searched in the manual.................I am a happy camper with it.

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  • ScottMcLeodScottMcLeod Registered Users Posts: 753 Major grins
    edited December 28, 2005
    ginger_55 wrote:
    I just got around to looking in the manual and found out how to do the 3200 ISO a few weeks ago.

    I used it over Christmas. I really like it!

    Mine shows as H that is all, just H, after 1600

    probably grain, I don't care. Family stuff, I hate messing with flash! I mean it really made a world of difference. I used my wide angle f4, I think, lens most of the time. Now on a faster lens...............WOW!

    I got some photos that are well worth the grain, no way would they have been possible with a flash.

    Not that a flash isn't useful, I just don't like to mess with it, and when I finally believed that there must be a way to get that 3200 and searched in the manual.................I am a happy camper with it.

    ginger

    Ditto. Christmas party last night, and the shots are BEAUTIFUL, despite most people not realising I took most of the ones I did, because there was no flash.

    ISO3200 = iloveyou.gif candids...
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  • leebaseleebase Registered Users Posts: 630 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2005
    ginger_55 wrote:
    probably grain, I don't care. Family stuff, I hate messing with flash! I mean it really made a world of difference. I used my wide angle f4, I think, lens most of the time. Now on a faster lens...............WOW!

    I like ISO3200 as well....and fast glass.

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    ISO 3200 -- no flash allowed at the Art Museum in Chicago. If you get the exposure right, the noise is very manageable with ISO3200 on the 20D. If you underexpose, then adjust the exposure to the right in post processing, that's when you'll have difficulties.

    BTW, I used to hate flash as well. I now use the LightSphere -- which other than looking funny, works very well. I'll shoot high ISO's _and_ use flash. The high ISO's allow that "ambient light" look to your photos, and the flash acts as fill to remove shadows from the eyes caused by overhead lighting.

    Lee
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