I think I know what the problem here is. My brain works at a higher level than yours so when I post a couple facts at once and expect you to make a simple deduction, you CANT. I then have to take the extra time to DUMB IT DOWN FOR YOU and spoonfeed the deduction I assumed you were smart enough to make but werent.
That aside I should have said METERING STYLE to make it clearer but I didn't - my bad. GREEN BUTTON is VERY SIMILAR to the STOP DOWN super takumar era metering mode which didn't use computers or even discrete active semiconductiors because what you are doing is taking a STOP DOWN reading every time ANY exposure varible changes like aperture, lighting, subject brightness, ISO etc. and then if ANYTHING changes you have to do it all over again. That is a metered manual mode. The only sublte difference is that with those spotmatics back then you had to turn the shutter speed as recommended by meter reading and with the istD the camera sets the shutter speed for you per the meter reading. That little difference alone IS NOT anywhere even remotely as automated at the K/M AE mode because the K/M metering mode FREES YOU FROM HAVING TO DO ANYTHING but pick your aperture and shoot away. NO more meter readings necessary even if the lighting, iso, aperture setting, all change. EVERYTHING is automatically compensated for, no tedious meter, remeter, meter, remeter. What part do you not understand about this summary? I will be glad to elucidate further if needed... JCO -----Original Message----- From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Camera engineering ( GREEN BUTTON has just officially DIED...) ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: Camera engineering ( GREEN BUTTON has just officially DIED...) > NO my defintion of a monkey > boy (YOU) is a person who settles > for a camera that treats them > like a brainless "gofer" instead > of an intelligent photograper. Pushing buttons > that don't need pushing over and over is like > willingly taking punishment for somebody > elses stupidity or greed. In your case > its not that bad because you don't even > realize your being punished because > they have managed to brainwash you into > thinking the button pushing is a good thing > for you. I want a camera that has the good features > we have had for the last 30 years with these > lenses, not suddenly go back to tedious non > computerized (hell, non electronic) exposure and metering modes FOR NO > REASON...KM can still do these things and very easily. Gee JC, if you'd have READ THE THREAD, you would have read about my K/M lens usage. If you read other peoples posts on the subject, you would realize that there are a lot of very talented and very smart photographers on this list who don't think this "lack" in Pentax DSLRs is a problem. If you had the brains of a gnat, you wouldn't intimate that the metering in any mode on a DSLR is non computerized or non electronic. Instead, you bleat about a camera you have never used, and you continue to insult people on list, now calling pretty much every Pentax DSLR on this list a brainless gopher. Do you really see this as the behaviour of an adult? William Robb
