Re: Automatic exposure on Nikon

Marcus Meissner <[email protected]> Sun, 8 Jan 2023 14:57:30 +0100

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On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 06:15:02PM +0100, Marcos Dione wrote:
> 
>     Reposting from https://github.com/jim-easterbrook/python-gphoto2/discussions/149
> 
>     It's not clear to me, and testing did not yield any obvious results, so I will ask:
> 
>     What mode a camera must be so I can change the f_number but let the
> camera compensate with exposure time? I have a Nikon D7200 and when I try
> to automatically take photos at different f_numbers, no matter what mode
> the camera is (P, A, S or M), the exposure time is always the same
> (whatever was last used in the camera).

What mode does the camera report as Exposure Program?

e.g. via --summary or via "expprogram" or "expprogram2" settings?

Can you try setting it to P, so it follows your wanted logic?

CIao, Marcus