I have given this more thought and I know why I MUCH Rather prefer apeture priorty over shutter priority. In either mode you are essentially choosing both The shutter speed and f-stop combination so that's Not really the issue. Its what is being done automatically For you that's the issue. With aperture priority The shutter speed is automatic and with shutter priority The aperture setting is automatic. BUT, and it's a big BUT, its much harder to manually set shutter speeds via the Shutter dial on top of the body than it is to manually set aperture Settings via the aperture ring (Both cases with your Eye to the finder). Hence I would much rather have the Camera do whats hardest for me automatically ( set the shutter speeds) than Do whats easier for me( set fstops ). That's the jist of it. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:46 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: The JCO survey ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: The JCO survey > Aperture preffered was always more > Popular than shutter preferred, probably > Because it controls DOF better than > Shutter preffered does. Many many SLRs > Had it while few offered shutter priority. > Can you name a single camera that only > Had shutter priority? ( not just an addition > To aperture priority) Trick question since by your wording you exclude cameras that have manual mode in addition to auto. You don't get to do that. Aperture preferred was technically easier to do, which was why it was done. It was easier at the time to control the shutter electronically than it was to stop down the lens mechanically. More pictures are compromised by slow shutter speeds than too little or too much depth of field, so you cannot make a case that depth of field control is more critical than blurry pictures from slow shutter speeds. So a few cameras that offered shutter preferred but not aperture preferred automatic: Note that they all offered manual exposure control as well, they were not crippled meter cameras like the Pentax MV and it's ilk, or the Nikon EM, or Canon T-50. The Mamiya/Sekor Auto XTL had shutter preferred auto, as did the Canon AE-1 (arguably the most popular SLR of it's day), as well as the earlier EX EE and EX Auto The Nikon F2s was able to be adapted to shutter preferred automatic. With the Canon F1, if you bought a particular viewfinder, then you got aperture preferred auto, if you bought a motor drive, you got shutter preferred auto, so it was possible to have an F1 with shutter preferred auto but not aperture preferred auto. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
