At 01:07 PM 7/25/2002 +0100, you wrote:
It's a disease! P.S. do you really UNDERSTAND all of the modes
available on wonderbricks or do they confuse you as much as they confuse me?
regards John Duggan, Wales, UK.
One of my Hawaii cousins is an avid street photographer and has owned and
sold off more brands and systems than I have lenses. I think his current
favorite is a Minox, but his wife gave him an EOS something or other and he
just shoots it in auto-everything mode -- can't be bothered to figure out
actually how to control an exposure with it.
I think what one does is decide how one wants to shoot the thing -- for
example, aperture priority mode as opposed to program (thinking in OMPC
terms) -- learn to program it to do that and then not bother with the rest
of it until you decide you want to try something else. My brother uses his
Maxxum in precisely this way. Except for autofocus (usually turned off to
make the actual shot in hyperfocal distance) and some programming for how
he wants to control bracketing, he shoots his brick exactly the way I shoot
an OM-2S. He bought into autofocus because of encroaching presbymyopia
(sp?) and if I had to work with as dim a viewfinder as he, I'd need
autofocus too. Long live the 2 series screen!
Joel W.
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