You missed a transmission where I questioned this too and Rickard
realized he was playing back the procedure for one of the lesser
E-things which only has one control dial. On an E-3 you do have two
control dials and can directly change shutter speed and aperture. Maybe
Brian missed it too since he quotes Rickard's original, but incorrect
(for an E-3) instructions.
Chuck Norcutt
Chris Barker wrote:
> It took me a few readings of your email to understand what you wanted,
> Brian, but I can't help feeling that you are complicating matters
> somewhat, or that Rickard is, e.g. why press the +/- button to set the
> aperture with the thumbwheel? It's available on either wheel
> depending on how you have it set up. If I am in Aperture Priority the
> front wheel does the aperture adjustment and the rear adjusts the
> exposure compensation.
>
> But the other query you had, reference Ken Norton's advice for
> settings for each of 2 users, can probably be answered on page 33 of
> the E-3 Reference Manual. It talks about CUSTOM RESET and that's what
> you want, I think.
>
> Again, although I have set up Custom Reset for the E-3, as I did for
> the E-1 and for my Panasonic LX3, I very rarely use it. I keep the
> settings simple, I adjust the compensation if necessary and I shoot
> away.
>
> Chris
>
> On 7 Nov 2009, at 17:06, Brian Swale wrote:
>
>> Chuck Norcutt described the remedy to those two points in an earlier
>> post. The trick is the following:
>>
>> * Set the camera to manual exposure and manual focus.
>>
>> * Configure the AEL/AFL setting to mode "M3". This will cause the
>> AEL/AFL button to work
>> as a "focus-on-demand"-button. Remember to activate only the
>> middle
>> focus point, for consistent behaviour.
>
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