It does seem to behave as though you are in aperture priority and thus
have no control of shutter speed at all. But Piers' explanation sounds
quite possible. It's easy to check. Just turn the other dial.
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/3/2015 3:32 PM, Piers Hemy wrote:
I have a feeling you have had this problem before, Brian, and that last
time the likely answer was that, while the explanation given in the manual
is correct for an out-of-the-box camera, it is also possible to customise
the behaviour of the front and rear control wheels to switch them from
their default starting setup. In fact it is what I have done so that front
wheel us consistently A and rear is consistently S, no matter whether the
camera is set to A or S priority, or M. I don't know what P does!
Piers
On Friday, 3 July 2015, <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
Coming briefly out of rare lurk mode to vet frustration at what seems to be
incomplete or inadequate instructions for having total control in manual
mode.
With the two planets close together (and a full moon) as they have been for
the last 10 days or so I thought I'd grab a few shots myself.
My chosen lens was the Zuiko 300/4, and from data I added to previous
shots using FastStone Image Viewer, what worked for me was ISO 320.
aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/500.
With that in front of me I tried setting up the E-3. Try what I may, and
following the manual, I was totally unable to set the shutter speed.
In mounting frustration I turned to the E-1, charged the battery, and
followed
the manual instructions.
With both cameras, where it explains which dial you turn to vary shutter
speed, the shutter speed did not show anywhere, and I was thus unable to
set it.
Total frustration. It's not important in the wider scheme of things that I
do this
but when it's possible, why not? I wondered if some function in the E-3 was
corrupted; but when the E-1 did the same, I concluded that some vital
instruction / system setting was just not being shown to b=me to follow.
Cheers, Brian
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