No, it wouldn't have depended on the camera in my case since events were
moving so fast that I couldn't have kept up otherwise and to try to do
so I would likely have created larger problems than program mode could
generate on its own. But I was actually using an A1 which performed
admirably... even if I didn't. Events took me by surprise. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Ken Norton wrote:
>> But I did use program mode once on another camera when things started
>> moving too fast for me to keep up.
>
>
> I think it really depends on the camera in question. As a general rule
> I've shied away from full program-mode on my cameras, but there are a
> couple of exceptions. The Panasonic L1 is surprisingly good in program
> mode (A-Aperture, A-Shutter Speed) and keeps the settings in the
> neighborhood of where I would normally shoot at. Most cameras tend to
> go too wide with the aperture when dim and stop down too much when
> bright. The L1 seems to strike a better balance than most and tends to
> bias the aperture towards the middle apertures--just as I usually do
> in Aperture Priority mode.
>
> The E-1 is one of those cameras that just doesn't seem to get Program
> Mode right. I'm doing the program-shift function more often than
> not--which defeats the purpose of using Program Mode in the first
> place. As to the Minolta A1, as the lens is essentially perfect at
> almost all apertures and DoF is rich to begin with, I actually end up
> using Program Mode there as much as Aperture Priority and Manual
> Exposure.
>
> AG
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