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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tdodd" data-source="post: 1194331" data-attributes="member: 55450">Good to hear. In the right conditions (stable lighting) manual exposure simplifies everything. Just set it and forget it (until the light changes). I've just had a thought. If you have a camera like the 40D you could even save some different manual settings in your C1, C2, C3 custom presets. C1 could be for brilliant sunshine, C2 for deep shade, and maybe C3 for regular cloudy. When you get to a location you could set them up precisely to suit the exact conditions at the scene. By the way, if you follow the link in my signature (Shameless plug) you will see one example of around 220 shots taken in 40 minutes, all with manual exposure. Once the exposure was dialed in properly I could happily forget about it completely and concentrate on timing and framing the shots. It didn't matter how much snow or sky was in the scene, or what the jumping boarders/skiers were wearing. Every exposure was bang on.</blockquote>