Perhaps it would be better to make the AEL button a spot button when
ESP is selected.
Even better, though would be if one (or both) of the flash and film
format buttons were spot meter buttons. At present they are modifiers
for one of the wheels, but it you were not using the wheels, but were
merely composing a shot, pressing one with your forefinger, å la OM4,
would select the spot meter and display the result (with an indication
that it was a spot meter) in the viewfinder.
In this way you would not lose AEL; loads of people like AEL (or the
camera makers think so anyway); and they would not lose face and have
to admit that AEL was in fact not AEL...
What do you, or anyone else, think?
Chris
On 11 Apr 2005, at 19:46, AG Schnozz wrote:
> On the IS-1,2,3 there is a spot meter button near the thumb. No
> matter the meter mode I am always a single button press away
> from a spot reading. It does an AEL for that exposure (and then
> resets for the next, as it's one shot only). With the OM-2S I
> can wing the meter mode from auto to manual which gives me
> "instant" spot metering too. Just flip a lever back and forth.
> With the OM-4, I can press the spot button which gives me an
> instant spot meter reading.
>
> Instant spot metering is an Olympus tradition. It was a very
> rude suprise to discover that this wasn't built into the
> functionality of the AEL button as an option. Come on, they give
> us six options already, what's a seventh?
>
> Another area where Miatani must be choking about is the
> direction of the dials in relationship to the meter scale when
> in manual mode. You have to move the dials to the left to move
> the scale to the right. I guess I have to think like a pilot
> here and "step on the ball".
>
> AG
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