Well, I certainly wouldn't give up the histogram but even the need for
that is rather minimized now. I bought an A1 a week before Ken. On my
first outing (since I didn't know how to use the camera's bells and
whistles yet) I just threw it into auto mode with its matrix metering
and auto control of everything including ISO.
After an hour's walk around a small lake in late afternoon sun with snow
on the ground I had taken 65 shots. There's nothing in there that I
would consider a keeper but I only had two shots that I would reject
based on exposure. Both were taken across the water and pointed toward
and relatively close to the sun. I might not have done any better
manually exposing each shot. I was rather amazed. Oh, yes. One was
out of focus but that was my fault for looking at the wrong symbol on
the screen as the in-focus indicator.
Chuck Norcutt
Jez.Cunningham@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> It gets more and more clear that there are some fundamental differences in
> how to use a digital camera compared to what we are used to. Even the
> camera manufacturers have not yet realised (see Michael Reichmann's
> ramblings) that Aperture, Shutter speed, and ISO are three different
> variables that can be adjusted. Well maybe they have realised it, but they
> haven't implemented the perfect solution yet. No longer are terms like
> "Aperture-priority" adequate, because the 'auto' bit still has a choice to
> vary speed OR ISO.
> Similarly the need for clever exposure modes (matrix, spot / multi-spot,
> ...) are becoming redundant - a live histogram is what you need.
> The future will be interesting!
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