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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ray Amos
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 4:23 PM
> > And that's why I feel enough is enough, or that already we
> got too much
> > going on, on the cameras. Makes too many fiddlers, not enough real
> > photographers left. The controls you need should be there, but
> they're there
> > for setting up the camera. Once setup, you should hot have to
> take your eyes
> > off the finder, nor fiddle your fingers.
> > Jim Davis (in Japan)
>
> Jim,
>
> You're doing it wrong. You don't set all the buttons and fiddle with
> them "while you're making photos". You do it before you make the photo.
> You set it up like you like it so that you will not have to do anything
> but point and shoot. Actually, because of all those buttons and
> whistles, I can burn much more film than when you had to rely on the
> manufactures setup instead of you own.
That is what I have been trying to say. You want to be able to quickly
select the a/f assist function you want without having to go into the custom
functions. I can picture a two position slider switch for a/f assist light
(on camera or on flash) and flash assist, where you want to use the full
power of the flash and don't care what the beings in the field of fire
think. You also want to be able to quickly disable flash even if you are
using it for focusing. That is part of separating the flash and a/f assist
functions. But as you said, you do this before you compose and shoot the
picture.
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Gerry Palo
Denver, Colorado
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