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- From: acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih)
- Subject: Re: Canon 10s Vs Nikon N90, Which one?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.212148.12015@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- References: <1992Dec23.184713.16148@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1992Dec24.164916.15387@cello.hpl.hp.com> <1992Dec24.191209.7652@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <BzsJsA.J5I@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 02:21:48 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- In <BzsJsA.J5I@ra.nrl.navy.mil> tse@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Anthony Tse) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec24.191209.7652@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes:
- >>In <1992Dec24.164916.15387@cello.hpl.hp.com> jacobson@cello.hpl.hp.com (David Jacobson) writes:
- >>To have focused, your subject must have been in the middle of the
- >>viewfinder. So, it makes sense to take the exposure off the middle of
- >>your viewfinder because the subject is there.
- >>
- >>Am I missing something?
-
- > I think anyone who compare different metering system in different
- >cameras are missing somehting. What make you think the "subject",
- >under any of the mentioned metering system, is always middle gray?
-
- This is all the camera has to go on... Short of firing a probe at the
- subject that can relay back ambient exposure readings...
-
- (I can just hear the engineers at Minolta going "Hmmmm...." :-)
-
- >While you are at it, seems to me the trend in new gee-whiz cameras
- >today is toward more and more metering modes. Before long, there
- >will be a metering mode for every possible situation, all one has to
- >do is figure out which mode is the right one. [...]
-
- I agree. However, that takes all the "point-and-shootedness" out of
- the camera. If you know enough about the situation to pick the right
- programme mode, you know enough about the camera to set it all up
- yourself.
-
- > [...] I think it's much easier
- >to learn one metering mode, the zone system. I wouldn't want to be the
- >one who has to figure out what the 5 zones what not metering mode is
- >actually doing in order to dial in the correct exposure compensation.
-
- Exactly. I would expect that is one reason centre-weighted metering
- seems to be making a comeback!
-
- >-Anthony
-
- ACS
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