Hello Lon, Coming from the old school of match needles as yourself, I want my cameras to have a similar capability when in manual mode. The *istD, MZ-S, PZ-1p and I think most of the ZX line all use a scale that works just about the same. I personally almost never use exposure compensation, but just work from the meter reading in manual mode.
-- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, December 31, 2003, 3:14:49 AM, you wrote: LW> I think this is one of the reasons I like match needle meters. LW> No need to use a dial to compensate, other than aperature or LW> shutter. I understand some of the modern cameras do pretty LW> well with their LCD/LED displays, also. LW> -Lon LW> Bob W wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >>>With an automatic camera you have to set exposure compensation. For some strange >>>reason I keep forgetting to turn that back to normal. Freudian block against >>>automatic cameras I guess. >> >> >> this is typical for anything with 'modes'. People always tend to >> forget what mode their equipment is in, and this leads to errors. >> Standard piece of human factors information. I also tend to forget to >> change exposure compensation back; same with spot-metering on the >> camera. Forgetting to set it back has caused me far too many exposure >> errors. Modes are bad. >>
