[OM] Re: E-1 users

[Moose]

Chuck Norcutt wrote:

>I think I commented here once before that one of the hardest digital 
>things for us old film users to get our heads around is that the ISO 
>setting is as much an exposure control as is shutter speed and aperture. 
>  Moose is probably the exception.  He depends upon it.
>  
>
I've always been one to find out what my tool will do and then use those 
qualities. :-)

>The camera makers haven't quite gotten their heads around it either. 
>Some make it easier to change ISO than others but I don't think anyone 
>yet has a dedicated dial that isn't shared with some other function. 
>  
>
Well, they have fully embraced it in the P&Ss and in the fully automated 
functions of some (most?) higher end cameras, where the program 
exposures vary all three parameters. The Program and all the scene modes 
on the consumer Can*n DSLRs set the iso automagically, along with stop 
and speed.

Moose


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