On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, lazarus wrote: > In reading the article in Photographic Mag. this month, the article > states that these Automatic Settings (Macro, Sports, Portrait and such) > are not included as settings in the *ist D. This leads me to believe > that I'll have an autofocus only and that I'll have to learn the correct > settings for the different photo shoots.
The automatic modes you mention (macro, portrait, etc.) only affect your exposure, not your focusing. They're a way of telling the camera what type of photo you're taking so it can set your shutter speed and aperture more effectively. Even while you're using those modes, you can still focus however you like on the MZ-7: automatically or manually. The *istD doesn't have all those specialty program modes, but it does offer a single program mode. It's still fully automatic, and it still picks both your shutter speed and aperture for you. You can still use it like a point-and-shoot if you want, although you won't have quite as much control over how your depth of field comes out as you would with different program modes. Since focusing is independent of exposure, you can focus both automatically and manually on the *istD, regardless of what exposure mode you're in. chris
