On Mar 15, 2005, at 9:00 AM, Peter Lacus wrote:
Hyper Program is brilliant and I'm slightly amazed no other manufacturer
has copied it. Simply put, hyper Program is "you adjust whichever
exposure control you want and the camera will automatically take care of
the other one" auto exposure.
isn't there a similar feature from the other manufacturers called "Program Shift"?
Program shift is a little simpler: you have essentially just locked an EV number and are rolling through the aperture/shutter tuples. Minolta's A2 is the closest: their program shift allows you to lock to either an aperture or shutter speed value.
Personally, I find all these variations on the theme of Program mode too much to think about. I use Program mode with the EV compensation control for simplicity when I don't really have to watch the focus zone or shutter speed too closely, and switch to Av or Tv modes when I need to hit a specific aperture or shutter speed to get the effect I want.
Godfrey
