----- Original Message -----
From: "Kostas Kavoussanakis"
Subject: Re: Camera engineering (This is signifigant)
Where have you seen this "aperture preferred automatic" term? What you are
describing above is the behaviour of Hyper-Manual mode, as defined in the
Z-1p manual.
Long before there was a PZ-1 there was a camera called the ES, the first
aperture preferred automatic camera to be exported from Japan
I heard the term in 1971, when I saw an advert for the ES
Pentax coined the term "Hyper-Manual" to describe going from manual exposure
to automatic exposure by pressing one button, rather than having to turn a
dial, or change a menu setting to get an automatic exposure quickly.
Call it what you will, if the user sets one exposure parameter and the
camera sets the other one, it's auto exposure.
William Robb
