NO ITS NOT because cameras with autoexposure have always done the other setting continously AFTER you made that one setting, not a 1-shot exposure setting that is force locked and ignores all necessary condition changes after you made your input. INCREDIBLY big difference to overlook. What green button is is a SEMI-AUTOMATIC exposure mode that is not even half way between manual and true AE because it requires constant user intervention from user if ANY of several varibles change that true K/M AE AUTOMATICALLY does for you. jco
-----Original Message----- From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Camera engineering (This is signifigant) ----- 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
