Gone are the days when a camera manual was actually more than a list of
features and how to activate them. That's partly because there are now
so many features that "might" be useful to someone somewhere, despite
being extremely esoteric. Some features are so obscure that though you
can activate them there's no clue to what they actually do.
On 2/9/2017 1:23 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
John wrote:
On 2/8/2017 10:21 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
I see to recall that green mode shoots only jpeg. If I wanted my
housemate to be able to pick up my camera and get photos of the flood
waters tomorrow, I could say Tav, f/2.8-4 1/60-1/100. Will P mode
automatically pick a good ISO?
I don't see anything in the manual that says "Green mode" shoots only
jpeg. If it's in there, I didn't find it.
I am sure that I remember reading that, and trying it out. However
that must have been on an older model because I just tried it and it
seems to be in raw on both the K-3 and K-1.
You could download the Operating Manual as a PDF & use it to guide you
while you tell your housemate how to set the various controls instead of
relying on us for second hand misinformation.
As we can see from the above, your second hand disinformation is more
accurate than my first hand disinformation.
http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/support/man-pdf/k-3.pdf
You are making the assumption that I hadn't tried to RTFM. In my
experience the manual aspires to uselessness. The index points to
setting the auto iso limits, but not turning them on or off. I tried
searching the manual, several times, and wasn't able to find it, until
I was able to find it and then I was. On some of those searches, I
will admit that I couldn't see where auto iso was highlighted on the
page.
I was hoping that someone else had gone through this and could just
say "simultaneously press the iso and the green buttons to put it into
auto iso, but that only works in these modes....", which would have
saved me about 45 minutes of trying to find the information.
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