Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Just responding to the thread's discourse, Dario, where it seemed to > be suggested that that the camera would do the switching between the > two modes.
In practice, no. If I set the two ISO settings manually, and then switch the flash on/off manually, I switch between the two settings manually. > I still don't see what you're suggesting would offer as any different > from two or more user-configurable pre-set setup options. The purpose of my double setting is allowing to shoot say 300 pictures in two hours - 150 of which are shot with a flash and 150 are with available light only - and prevent I have to change the sensitivity setting (or the user setup option) back and forth 150+150 times in the dark. That's the reason for the double ISO setting I ask for. With such a function, I can set the two settings once at the beginning of the shooting session and be OK for the night. The same could happen with the white balance setting; one for available light (=flash off) and one for flash shooting (=flash on). The camera knows if the flash will fire. Why not using such info? This could be somewhat risky, since with slow synch you have flash on and plenty of both flash and environment light together. Like any good automatic function, this has to be an option I can enable/disable at will. And, of course, this is of little interest for RAW shooting. > My Konica > Minolta A2 has three. I find I don't use them as I too frequently > forget what I've configured *and* find that I forget how to define > them. I find it takes me less effort and time to change the ISO than > to fuss with the presets. I fully agree with you here. The D also has three of them and I never use them for the same reason. Cheers, Dario -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
