On Fri, 6 May 2005, William Robb wrote: > Before automation, you had no choice about learning the technical end of > photography. It was part of the game. You learned how to adjust an aperture > and shutter speed to match a needle in the viewfinder.
<snip> > Automatic exposure does not necessarily give correct exposure, it gives a > best guess exposure, that guess coming from a rather retarded brain. I cannot see how these two differ, assuming the same metering algorithm behind the needle reading/auto exposure. Actually, the auto exposure has a higher chance of being consistent for a learner on the same scene (assuming that the learner bothers to change the aperture or speed setting). Kostas
