I read somewhere that this mechanical ballet is necessary in order
for the exposure meter to work. If that were the case, one should be
able to expose manually in mode B without the delay. But of course
you're right: the shutter must close and open (and close). No movie
mode and no real-time histogram AFAIK.
Joao T. da Costa
At 11:00 PM +1100 26.01.06, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>Note that the mirror lock-up approach of 'Mode B' would only really
>be suitable for studio shots, preferably of inanimate objects as
>there is a one second delay as the mirror drops, shutter closes and
>then the mirror/shutter cycle begins. It's a rather clumsy approach
>for anything else and I would like to apologise formally to the
>person (whomsoever it was) who suggested it on this list - well done.
>Never occurred that faced with two possible ways of solving the
>problem, they'd incorporate both!
>Did anyone see a mention of movie mode?
>AndrewF
>
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>On 26/01/2006, at 4:51 PM, Dan Mitchell wrote:
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>> http://www.dpreview.com/articles/olympuse330/ has a hands-on preview.
>>
>> Very neat optical trickery to have a real SLR viewfinder but also
>> either a flip-out live-view screen with a secondary sensor / or
>> flip-out
>> screen from the _real_ sensor by locking the mirror out of the way.
>>
>> -- dan
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