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From: sb@cvl.UUCP (Babu Srinivasan)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Recommendations
Message-ID: <891@cvl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 23:45:19 EST
Article-I.D.: cvl.891
Posted: Sun Mar 25 23:45:19 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Mar-84 00:28:18 EST
Organization: U. of Md. Computer Vision Lab
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          After doing an incredible amount of research into cameras
being offered by all the leading camera manufacturers, I narrowed
the field down to three Cameras

           1) Nikon FE-2
	   2) Pentax Super Program
	   and of course
	   3) Canon A-1

         I rejected  Pentax LX only because it was too expensive.
Same goes for Nikon F3.(Of coarse I never even dreamt of
Hasselblads, Leicas, and Contax !)

         I rejected Nikon FA for two reasons
  1) I want to know how the meter calculates the  aperture
     and shutter values and FA hides a helluva lot from
     the user in the AMP mode.

  2) It is too expensive.


     In my opinion FA is only for rich Amateurs.
     It is for people who are more interested in the final
     printed photograph than for people like me who are
     also interested in the picture taking process.

             I finally selected NIkon FE-2 without any
problem whatsoever.

               Canon A-1 ,though a remarkable camera was
introduced in 1978. 6 Years have passed and lot of things 
have changed.
              A-1 doesn't have TTL flash metering, consumes
too much power ( This is era of LCD displays not LED),
poor viewfinder info in the manual mode, has cloth focal
plane shuttter, Highest Shutter speed of only 1 msec. ,
the shutter release button has to be pressed always to see
viewfinder info, doesn't warn you that Exposure compensation
is being used.

              Pentax Super Program has a lot of very useful
features. But the absence of three features that I consider
important and a minor irritation  made me reject it.

Minor Irritation: The aperture lcd window goes blank during
Aperture Priority mode and  TTL Flash mode.

              1) There is no Memory Lock.
	      2) The Exposure compensation increments
	         available are  2X, 4X, .5X, .25X
                 I want them in 1/3 stop increments.
	      3) No provision for Multiple Exposures.


  Ofcourse if you are a Manual Mode fan and use no other mode I
  would reccommend the Nikon FM-2. Nikon has recently improved
  it.

                 All of this is my sincere opinion. It is my
  choice. So other Camera owners should see this in proper
  light.