Moose the Night wrote:
> Tina jumped on the Fuji bandwagon. She had a specific problem with the new
> camera, settings moving without her intent and screwing up her work.
I wouldn't say that she "jumped on the Fuji bandwagon", but certainly
is giving it a chance to prove itself.
> As to dumbed down? Weeelll, if turning off things that get in the way, while
> leaving those needed readily usable is dumb, there are times where dumb is
> smart. :-)
That's the intent. But as has been pointed out by others, the Fuji
tends to kinda override your carefully defined configuration without
telling you. When you pick up a camera, you half expect it to be in
the same configuration as where you left it. This is one of the
biggest design faults of the Panasonic DMC-L1. Every time the camera
goes to sleep it resets everything to the stored configuration. So, if
I happen to adjust my WB or exposure compensation, aperture or shutter
speed or ISO or basically ANYTHING, shoot pictures, and if the camera
goes into doze mode, all my settings are gone. To get past this, you
have to never let the camera sleep or shut it off or anything. If you
want to keep your settings you have to save your settings. The Olympus
E-1 would always stay were you left it until you selected something
different. Pro cameras don't change things without you telling them to
change things.
> If I read you correctly, 'PHD button' is iAuto? That's not correct. When
> using it this way, I have it in Auto Aperture, with aperture and EV comp.
> settable on the rear controller. Left-right 'buttons' set EV, Up-down set
> aperture - actually rather intuitive, I think.
The "PHD button" is the "Push Here Dummy Button".
> So, only the controls I want, immediately at hand, nothing else active that
> can mis-set things. (And MF-AF on Fn1)
A "professional camera" used for "news gathering" is almost always set
up as a "point and shoot". Auto everything is the automatic start
point. Nothing new here. The old timers used to have one of the
cameras configured with all the controls glued in place. They'd always
get a couple shots with that first, then use the other camera to fine
tune.
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