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Re: [OM] [OT] - Advice wanted about 5D2

Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] - Advice wanted about 5D2
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:09:23 -0400
Of course!  :-)

Chuck Norcutt


Bill Pearce wrote:
> You mean P, the Professional mode.
> 
> Bill Pearce
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 6:42 PM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] - Advice wanted about 5D2
> 
> No, it wouldn't have depended on the camera in my case since events were
> moving so fast that I couldn't have kept up otherwise and to try to do so I
> would likely have created larger problems than program mode could generate
> on its own.  But I was actually using an A1 which performed admirably...
> even if I didn't.  Events took me by surprise. :-)
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 
> 
> Ken Norton wrote:
>>> But I did use program mode once on another camera when things started 
>>> moving too fast for me to keep up.
>>
>> I think it really depends on the camera in question. As a general rule 
>> I've shied away from full program-mode on my cameras, but there are a 
>> couple of exceptions. The Panasonic L1 is surprisingly good in program 
>> mode (A-Aperture, A-Shutter Speed) and keeps the settings in the 
>> neighborhood of where I would normally shoot at. Most cameras tend to 
>> go too wide with the aperture when dim and stop down too much when 
>> bright. The L1 seems to strike a better balance than most and tends to 
>> bias the aperture towards the middle apertures--just as I usually do 
>> in Aperture Priority mode.
>>
>> The E-1 is one of those cameras that just doesn't seem to get Program 
>> Mode right. I'm doing the program-shift function more often than 
>> not--which defeats the purpose of using Program Mode in the first 
>> place. As to the Minolta A1, as the lens is essentially perfect at 
>> almost all apertures and DoF is rich to begin with, I actually end up 
>> using Program Mode there as much as Aperture Priority and Manual 
>> Exposure.
>>
>> AG
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