On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 19:30:31 -0400, T Rittenhouse wrote: >If you never did it, how do you know you can? From your posts on this >subject so far, I can already tell you wouldn't know a good exposure if it >bit you. Anyone who has not cussed autoexposure from time to time, doesn't >know enough to comment about it because there are situations where it just >plain doesn't work.
Auto exposure ALWAYS works. But like everything that is a computer you must remember the first rule of computing - Computers are basically stupid. They will do exactly what you tell them and nothing more or less. You have to learn auto exposure the same as you have to learn manual exposure - and it's a lot easier to learn if you know manual exposure first. A good tradesman never blames his tools because he knows them and HE is the one that drives them. A good photographer doesn't blame his camera because HE is the one that drives it. No matter what tool he chooses he should learn it's capabilities and quirks. I use an MZ-S and P-TTL flash. I use it because it makes life easier for me, but I know what it is doing and why it is doing it and the situations where if left to it's own devices it would get it wrong, and that is where I override it. I also manual focus a lot because my camera does not understand about creative use of depth of field. Leon http://www.bluering.org.au http://www.bluering.org.au/leon
