Pentax has definitely failed to promote the Green button. To me it's just a Mystery Button that I could just as easily cover over with black electrical tape.
After it got talked about here a few years ago, I made the effort to read up on it. The manual left me scratching my head, but folks here insisted it was awesome. I think the issue with the manual is there's no overview or Big Picture -- why it was added. When I tried it out, no matter what I did with it it just seemed to produce random and inscrutable results -- incorrect exposures -- with no apparent benefit to me. I think of it as the Do Not Press Me Ever button. It just presents one more opportunity for me to fsck up the settings if I fumble-finger it. On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: >> If people really want to use pre-"A" >> lenses, they can easily work in M mode and use Sunny 16 like we all did long >> ago (& waste no film). > > Pentax has actually given us a lot more than that. Most everyone knows > that the Green Button can be set to give you the Program exposure > setting while in Manual. But a lot of people still don't know about > Hyper Manual. Hit the AE/L button after the green button and now you > can change BOTH the aperture and shutter speed (together with only ONE > dial) at your chosen ISO. Super handy. > > - - - > Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs > look like photographs. > ~ Alfred Stieglitz > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
