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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: summary of 35mm camera features (LONG!)
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Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 17:04:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 17:04:46 1985
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In article <2046@watcgl.UUCP> by dokdransch@watcgl.UUCP someone writes:
>Pentax:  I use program mode 85% of the time, aperture priority 12%,  and
>shutter priority 3%.  Program mode sets it about where I would put it
>myself anyway.  I could do without shutter priority, but like it being
>available anyway.  I DO use it sometimes.

i guess this depends on the type of photography you do.  in find that i
use program, shutter priority, and then manual.  i have not yet used
aperture priority on the job except to check that it really works.

>>- convenience of both f-stop and shutter speed in viewfinder

>Pentax: very important.  i miss not seeing f-stop in my super program viewfinder

as the person who said this, i should mention that i meant in manual or
aperture priority mode the f-stop doesn't appear.  it does appear in
other modes.

>>- off-the-film metering
>OM-2s:   I like the metering system.  It meters the light reflected off the film
>during the actual exposure, rather than locking in a setting at the start
>like most.

it is an accepted fact that many professional photographers don't use
off-the-film metering for that very reason.  it can get fooled too
easily unless the subject happens to fall within the metering pattern.
with off-the-film metering, the pattern occupies the majority of the
frame so the background must be about the same reflectivity to get
proper exposure without compensation.  if you are aware of this and
compensate, then there will be no problem.  that, however, defeats the
purpose of the metering design.

>-------------------------------
>I guess that if you want to do pretty normal shooting, the Pentax will do the
>job.  It is in the fringes of photography -- macro, micro, low-light,
>durability, different focusing requirements, etc. -- that the Olys excel.
>from:  Jan Steinman
>       tektronix!tekecs!jans

pentax doesn't make a lot of noise about their macro equipment,
although they have as much as i have been able find in the canon,
minolta, and contax lines.  if you're really into macro stuff,
i think that nikon and leitz are the only real choices.  the pentax
super program is considered to be the top amateur camera of the pentax
line, although many pros use it too.  if you need the extended
facilties like changeable focusing screens and the like, you have to go
to the MX or LX.  as far a durability is concerned, any camera that can
take a 3.5 fps motor drive had better be rugged or else it'll fall
apart very quickly.  your comments here don't explain very clearly what
you mean (jan).

Herb Chong...

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