What is your default Shooting Mode

Av almost exclusively on the digitals
HyP on the Z-1s,
Manual on the 645

Intersting to see that almost no one uses Tv, i believe that was the mode Nikon and Canon used right for their older SLR while Pentax uses Av.
Also Sv has not received any love

I think it was just Canon that only had Av ....... it attracted a lot of idiotic followers

I do occasionally use Tv, but Tav has made it a bit redundant.

Sv is just pointless, IMO! ISO is not a creative tool.

HyP on bodies that allow it. Otherwise Av. Very occasionally Sv.

I think you're confused.
I'm sure that Pentax was one of the first with Av mode.
Look up the Asahi Pentax ESII

Found a list.
By 1974, the autoexposure SLR brands had aligned into two camps (shutter-priority: Canon, Konica, Miranda, Petri, Ricoh and Topcon; aperture-priority: Asahi Pentax, Chinon, Cosina, Fujica, Minolta, Nikkormat and Yashica) supposedly based on the superiority of their chosen mode.

Mostly AV, which I voted for. Occasionally TAv if I need to keep the shutter speed up.

Aperture priority mostly unless action shots then shutter priority

I play around with the ISO a lot more now that I can with good quality!

Manual at moment playing around with macro with some cheap manual tubes and an equally cheap FA film camera kit lens. Great fun!.

I have alway prefered Manual, but since getting a K5 I do seem to be going over to TAv except for back lit shots.

I shoot mostly P mode, although I manipulate the shutter speed depending on what I need. I don't seem to get having a camera that has complex metering and then ignore it to shoot manual. By all means for tricky light situations (then dial in EV comp), but the vast majority of lighting is normal and within the range of the camera. When using manual, do you use the camera to tell you if the exposure is OK? If so, why not use one of the automatic modes (P, Av, Tv...)

Sorry, just a rant.

ps - what about manual focus, and disable SR to get that authentic vintage OOF, blurred, badly exposed look..

(I am sure to be shot down in flames......)
Tim

I mostly use AV but have started using TAV and am beginning to use this more and more.
In the future I think it will be AV for landscapes,portraits,macro and TAV for wildlife/sport.

I don't change from Av at all, unless for some special reason I need to use M, such as studio flash.

The reason is simple - shutter speed and aperture are reciprocally connected. Increase one you decrease the other.

So, if I need a faster shutter speed I just open the aperture. Sorted. If I run out of apertures I need a higher ISO.

All these options are provided so a user can decide their style of operating the camera, rather than to use different modes depending upon subject matter. After all, out ME Supers only had AV and M.

Tav can decouple the relationship between aperture and shutter speed, and leave ISO as the variable. This allows aperture and shutter speed to be adjusted in a fully controlled way, rather than one having a knock on effect on the other. In other words, forget about how much light you need. Just set whatever combination of shutter speed and aperture suit your purpose creatively.

Varying the ISO will cause different noise structure for images side by side, so I don't think that would suit me very well. If the noise was a constant then it would be very useful.

i find it damned close to constant up to around 1600

Bret