>Ah, I see. In this case some people might prefer to have AV outside,
>to get an automatically adjusted shutter speed. Ok, M doesn't give
>you that, but is nevertheless very much preferable over AV IMHO.
>AV will vary your exposure depending on your subject. OTOH, if
>you thoroughly metered the lighting ONCE and the lighting isn't
>changing all the time, life is much easier with M mode. Meter once,
I agree partly but often the lighting *is* changing too fast.
E.g. subject in sunlight, in shadow, faces in shadow, subject
enters a car (and you need to take some shots before the door
closes). And all the time you need to walk/run and think of the
background and framing etc.
So most of the time I would need to concentrate on the subject
so checking and adjusting the manual exposure would be too slow.
But in fact I use autoexposure much like manual mode by locking
it with the shutter button.
With negative film you might manage better with constant exposure
(M mode).
> > This functionality should be CF-selectable and it should work
> > only when the flash is ready.
>
>Isn't there even such a setting on some higher level EOS bodies?
>I think on the 5 and 1N I can fix the shutter speed to the
>flash sync speed by setting a CF.
No there isn't "such a setting" but I quess there is something
like you described. Fixing the shutter speed automatically (when
the flash is ready) is not really an answer but if it works in
P-mode (thus effectively P-mode would become the Tv-mode when flash
is ready) might be useful in some cases.
Luckily I haven't needed to shoot weddings or such lately.
Weddings was used just as an example here anyway.
I stopped using "M-mode" as my preferred mode (I still use it
sometimes) when I stopped using Canon FTb as my main camera some
decades ago... Some automatic mode with exposure lock makes it
much easier and faster.
have fun
VP
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