At 21:49 4/10/02, Mike Stoez wrote:
[snip]
Well, I could not for the life of me figure out how to do it with the
A2. It is just not very intuitive. You have to fiddle with buttons and
dials and look at LCDs when with an OM2 (or any OM) you simply set it on
manual, meter the gray card, make one shutter speed setting (I usually
preset the aperture at f/8) then take photos. It could hardly be
simpler.
Now, if this fellow come to see me again, can any of you tell me how to
help him set his A2 for metered manual?
This is a frustration in attempting to help others (locally) take creative
control of their photography. There is a *lot* to be said for the elegance
of simplicity! I've seen so-called manual modes which are really very
cumbersome work-arounds some engineer in the camera body's design center
was able to devise *after* the design was released for production so the
marketdroids could stake claim it has one with yet one more bullet in the
advertising brochure (a tri-fold, of course)!
A good friend of mine is teaching a basic beginner's adult education class
at a local junior college. I helped him put together the syllabus for it
(editorial review and comment). Had his first session last weekend and
talked to him afterward. He spent the first 45 minutes with a handful of
students just sorting out how to get all the Wunderbricks into a generic
"program" mode. The same folks who can't program a VCR are trying to
figure out how to turn their cameras on! The complexity level of the menu
schemes displayed on the LCD panels is mind-boggling; it would overload an
experience passenger airline jumbo-jet pilot.
Yes, there is allegedly a "Metered Manual" mode for the A2 (or A2E) to be
found somewhere in its Daedalus Labyrinth. Hope he doesn't stumble across
the Minotaur first in his quest to find it. Think of it as an adventure game!
-- John
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