This begs the question of shooting style. I'd think that a photographer would know what the shutter speed and aperture are set at without having to look. Of course, with the old fashioned shutter speed dial, the "readout" is there to be easily seen at all times, except in darkness, a situation in which very few photographs of the "stealth" type are made anyway.
One problem with some of the electronic designs is that you can't "feel" the shutter speed settings change. A quick example that comes to mind is the ME Super, which has push buttons to change the speeds. I imagine that numerous other modern cameras have a similar "feature" where there is no way to feel the "steps" when changing speed, as on a camera like the MX which uses a dial and at each speed change you can feel the the dial "click" into place. Using such a dial allows one to change the aperture and feel each change with the finger. With practice - and practice is necessary to some degree - the photographer can change shutter speeds in the dark and know exactly what speed has been selected. Of course, this assumes familiarity with the camera, and assumes that the photographer wants, or cares enough to, take the time to learn this skill. As an aside, when Leica introduced the M6 TTL there was quite an outcry from long-time Leica users because the shutter speed dial, after almost 50 years of rotating in one direction, was changed to rotate in the opposite direction, causing, if not confusion, a need for the photographer to slow down and think more about which camera s/he was using and which direction the speed dial had to turn. Of course, this was no problem for new users, who'd never used the earlier iterations of the M6, M4, etc. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > One of the chief reasons I chose the > Super Program was that it displays the > shutter speed in an LCD on the top panel. > Great for stealth shots when you don't > want to lift the camera to your eye. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/darkroom-rentals/index.html - 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 .
