Chris wrote:
>And you can
> do it without having to leave the shooting mode that you're on. Note that
> I was still on shutter-priority the entire time.
So what? Whats the difference on the MZ-S you press a button and turn a dial; the same
on the F80. Who cares if technically the MZ-S is really in another mode the moment the
shutter fires. In fact, its better to refuse to use the word mode at all; the MZ-S is
just fixed in exposure when you use the exposure compensation dial. When you want to
change exposure again you either do it yourselves, something that might be considered
manual mode, or press a button. You don't really change mode, you tell the camera that
when you turn the compensation dial you don't want to affect the exposure, only the
flash metering.
>As for cluttering up the
> camera, adding one button would not do that.
Why should they add another button when there already is one that do the job? The only
gain on the MZ-S, but not on the F80, would be that the camera is technically in the
same mode. This might be a great deal on the F80 but isn't one the MZ-S.
> It's not about changing exposure, it's about which aspects of the exposure
> you control. You have to select both a shutter speed and aperture
> manually to use FEC on the MZ-S, correct? This means that your lens has
> to be taken off the "A" setting, doesn't it?
No. The camera can set anything you like EVEN in (so called) manual mode. Thats the
point with hyper modes.
The problem here stems from the fact that you use another cameras rather cumbersome
interface as benchmark. The whole point is to understand and take advantage of the
MZ-S interface. When this is done, a dedicated flash compensations isn't really needed
since you have acces to all(most?) auto settings (I won't use the words manual mode or
shutterspeed mode because they are close to meaningless with the MZ-S). Theres no more
work involved on the MZ-S than on eg. the F80. However, the MZ-S do indeed demand that
the photographer have some concept of what he is doing while F80 is probably more for
the novice. The whole point with the MZ-S is that photographer is concious what he
wants and that he think exposure and NOT mode. This is progress - the photographer
don't want "priorities" but a shutter/aperture combination.
Its clear to me that the MZ-S is designed for optimising aperture priority photography
and manual adjustment. It suit those who come from the LX and similar cameras.
Insisting on using the camera in this or that way because this is how I use the F80 is
wrong approach. So I would not set the lens off "A" (if thats how I had it in the
first place something thats highly unlikely in my case). I would use the shutterspeed
dial because its simpler. The point is to use the MZ-S interface to your advantage and
in my opinion thinking exposure modes is counter productive.
Pål
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