Maybe its the need for control buttons. The bodies don't have enough
but are already too busy.
Chuck Norcutt
Joel Wilcox wrote:
> Most digital shooters work from the histogram and are not trying to
> make the image data fit correctly within a 5 stop range to the same
> degree as one must in shooting transparencies. Interestingly, the
> later E's have a highlight spot setting which I've found to be very
> effective. If you have any significant clouds for which you need
> detail, this feature works very well. But that's different from
> multispot.
>
> I wish I had multispot on the E-3. I guess Olympus threw itself into
> better exposure control via ESP, which is certainly very good. Also,
> a single spot on the OM-2S is pretty effective, and there is the
> equivalent of that in the E system. It's hard to make the case that
> exposure control in the E system is defective without multispot, but
> I'd still like it.
>
> Joel W.
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Chuck
> Norcutt<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> And inquiring minds have long wondered why not. The firmware to do that
>> would be trivial for todays cameras.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>>> But then even that's not
>>> really a fair comparison in all respects since no E-body can do
>>> multispot readings.
>>>
>>> Joel W.
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