khen wrote:
> Aha....I know the person who did that and you won't believe
> the out-of-box thinking for that one....
So WHY did this feature not make it into the E-system? It's
these great features, like live-exposure adjustment during the
time the shutter is openned (OTF metering), mirror-box metering,
outstanding viewfinders, instant-spot-meter-button (which came
back in the E-3xx), disappearing from the cameras for no
apparant reason which has me confused. It's like asking why
Canon hasn't brought back the pellicle mirror in the 1D-series!
It can't be cost-containment. The engineering is already done,
it's just a matter of including it in the design.
Instant-spot-metering is fully available in almost every single
camera except the E-1. Oversight? If so, why wasn't it fixed
in firmware?
> You think so...? In your opinion, how does the IS-3000's ESP
> compare to the Camedia E-10/E-20 or do you think that this is
> not a fair question...? I have a reason for asking this
> question..... :)
Haven't tried the E-10/E-20, but I believe it works better than
the E-1's. I think I know why. It appears that the ESP/Matrix
metering system in the cameras now sense the color and light
value of the brightest metering zone. It uses this information
to determine the type of scene it is photographing. For example,
my A1 identifies bright sunlight by the EV and will
automatically lean towards the Sunny-16 rule. The E-1's ESP
mode seems to be working in a similar manner. Well, where this
falls down, is when you are running a polarizer on the lens.
The maximum EV value is lower by two stops (typical with
polarizer), which fools the matrix into thinking it's something
other than a bright sunlit scene. As such, it will end up over
or under-exposing the scene because the "rules" are different.
The ESP metering matrix in the IS-series appears to be
restricting the calculations to foreground (center-spot) and
background (ambient) ratios. It might be dumber, but it isn't
fooled by a polarizer.
> Yes, that was ingenious....Maitani thinking here.
So where was Maitani's thinking when it came to the rest of the
controls?
> > My suggestion to every camera designer is to try and operate
> > the camera while blindfolded. That'll help.
> Very very true. The OMs were supreme in this aspect.
So why are the current designers h*ll-bent on erasing every
memory and thought-process of Maitani? Did he really tick off
the powers-that-be so much that they are in a total anti-Maitani
mode?
> AG, please restrict discussions on this feature.....thanks...
Not to worry. It's obvious that nobody inside Olympus has ever
taken the time to see what we users have been wanting or
thinking anyway. ;) Oh, wait, there was the issue of the
OM-adaptor--maybe they did listen.
AG (NOT!) Schnozz
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