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From: hkr4627@acf4.UUCP (Hedley K. J. Rainnie)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Question about Nikon F3
Message-ID: <2720022@acf4.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Apr-85 21:47:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 14 21:47:00 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Apr-85 04:16:34 EST
Organization: New York University
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The Nikon F-3 is specified in product literature and magazine reviews
as an aperture priority automatic--i.e., you set the aperture, the
camera sets the (stepless) shutter speed.

However, in Gary Berstein's <Pro Techniques of People Photography> 
published by HP Books, Mr Bernstein uses his F3 on shutter priority
automatic for a series of action shots, setting the shutter speed to 
1/250 sec. and noting that the aperture varied from f-4 to f-8.

Does shutter priority automatic mean manually stopping the lens up and
down until '250' appears in the viewfinder and shooting?  It seems 
unlikely since it was specified that the motor drive was used at its
highest speed (MD-4: 5.5 frames/second).  Or is the F3 really a
shutter priority automatic?

-r-