A good challenge to try, cover up your LCD (shocking I know) for a day and take 36 shots just like an old roll of film, most of us remember film right. And think more about your settings and what you are doing and not relying for once on the histogram and the camera telling you if you have it right.

Good idea, and to keep it more real I think you cannot allow use of the "auto" function no matter what it is exactly called. Instead make it mandatory that you use the manual mode and use the exposure guide provided in your camera viewer only. And pick one ISO setting to use, like you would have picked a film speed.

And to make it a bit more realistic, make the rules that you have to wait three days to see what you captured, sort of like it was in the day when you had to wait to see your prints. This rule would almost guarantee that the moment will have passed so you got what you got and couldn't retake the shot.

I'll leave it to the creator of the idea if you want to implement any of these rules, LOL!

Wayne

A good idea and  challenge indeed.

God Bless.

@whaleman... my Nikkormat EL from 1972 has a lightmeter zo you can shoot at A mode :P. How is going full manual more real?

Hi 3DGuy,

I was thinking in terms of my old Pentax Spotmatic that had a built-in light meter but you still had to set shutter speed and aperture on your own, and those choices had consequences. I just wanted people to get away from any fully automatic digital settings which are designed to produce perfect results.

However I am still waiting for tennesseecowgirl to respond and decide, after all it is her challenge and I don't want to step in changing her idea, so if we don't hear from her I will assume the challenge to be as she first wrote it!  :)

Good suggestions Mark  on the one ISO   manual mode it would be way to easy to put it on  A or P or S  modes the camera is still doing it for you that way.  I will try it this week and try to remember to post a few or all of them HAHA

Oh my gosh I mean Wayne   lol  I just got done commenting on one of  Marks wysiwig's pictures so his name was on my mind    sorry                 :)

LOL I shoot like that all the time! I NEVER use Auto settings.

I do not shoot in auto mode either, the point was to not try to rely on what the histogram or settings are telling you to think and not have the camera think.  For those who use or rely on the histogram, not saying its not a great tool but in the days before all that we had to get the shot right NOT THE CAMERA

This could be combined with the Renoir 50mm challenge, all at the same time.

I shoot in manual all the time, I set my speed and fstop (and sometimes the ISO) and shoot, only then do I chimp to see if I was on target. It does make you think a lot more before you click.

The only time I consistently rely on my histogram is when I am shooting in infrared as I am not as competent at reasoning out my settings with my camera that has been modded for IR.  But your challenge does bring up the issue that I should get better at that format too.