Now, there is my arguement abainst automatic cameras in a nutshell. If your camera is manual only you can not forget to turn it back to auto. And, you know you rather than the camera have to set the exposure. Setting a compensation dial is more of a hassle than just clicking open or closesd a stop or so, and you don't forget to put it back to normal because the next shot you are going to change the exposure anyway. If the lighting is steady you can take a general reading and just shoot away until the light changes, the camera will not change the exposure because the is something dark or something light in the frame, so you get more consistant exposures.
Same wiht AF, if you have to focus you do it, if you leave it to the camera it may be shut off or it may focus on the wrong thing. Also, zone focus is far, far faster than AF for those crithcal shots. The thing that I have found is that when I use an auto camera, I become dependent on it and forget to compensate for its limitations. That is in my experience a very real human limitation. Ciao, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 10:06 AM Subject: Loading Film in LX [was: Didya miss me?] > > Hi, set the LX to 1/2000`s when putting in film. VERY IMPORTANT: > > remember to set it back to what you want after you`re done. > > I would add just a little suggestion of my own to your suggestion, > Steve: > > I tend to keep my LX's in the Auto shutter dial position (for > aperture-preferred autoexposure mode) for most (probably 90%) of my > shooting, and only switch to manual as a deliberate action for a > particular shooting situation. One disadvantage of the Auto > position is that one can't load film with the shutter dial set to > Auto, since (if light is being blocked from entering the body) the > LX will just hold the shutter open indefinitely (or so it would > seem). > > Now, for me, the problem is that, if I use 1/2000 for loading film, > I potentially can (easily) forget to put the shutter dial back on > Auto (and indeed, in a few "senior moments", I have literally done > just that, ruining some exposures for a few frames until I noticed > my blatant stupidity). Your "VERY IMPORTANT" warning, Steve is very > a good one to make. > > I now (and it's even become automatic with me, having done this for > a while) set the shutter speed to 1/60, 1/30, or 1/15 (not critical) > for loading film. The advantage of this is that the shutter sound > at slower speeds is distinctive, and, if I forget to put the shutter > dial back on Auto, my error of omission is audibly obvious with my > very first mistaken exposure. (The disadvantage of doing this is > that it is a little more of a nuisance to rotate the shutter dial > all the way to some slow speed and back, compared to using 1/2000, > which is only "one click away" from Auto.) > > By the way, the necessity of not leaving the shutter dial at 1/2000 > (instead of resetting to Auto) is evident whether one is using flash > or not. For natural light, 1/2000 is usually not going to be a > suitable speed just "by luck", although this depends on the film > speed, aperture, and lighting, of course. Then, the problem with > using flash at 1/2000 is that (unlike when properly set to Auto or > X) there is no flash sync set, so one doesn't even have a prayer of > getting a "lucky" exposure. (And, unfortunately, I can speak from > experience on both of these situations - <g>.) > > The Super Program and Super A, with their automatic loading speed of > 1/1000, are more "idiot-proof" for nincompoops like me - <g>. > > Fred > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
