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From: jordan@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Buying a 35 mm camera
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 17:51:27 EST
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In article <2583@genat.UUCP> jorge@genat.UUCP (Jorge Olenewa) writes:

	I own an FE-2 which has been pretty good to me so far. I am
	presently buying an F3 and have considered selling the FE-2 and
	buying an FA but the excessive amount of electronics on it,
	frankly turns me off ... I rarely use a camera on auto exposure
	mode; I shoot a lot of K64 and bracket extensively; program
	mode on the FA has intrigued me for use in "tricky" situations.

If you "rarely use a camera on auto exposure" why do you have an
automatic camera ?!? Look, if you bought an FE-2 to use in manual mode
(which, somehow, I don't believe ...), you got sold some blue sky. I
have some land in Florida for you. Seriously, how can you justify using
an automagic camera mainly in manual mode? How can you justify trading
it in for an FA?

I'm SURE that if you shoot Kodachrome that you're going to bracket a
lot, especially if you wind up using auto mode ... that's a good way to
spend a lot of money. Better than bracketing "extensively", why don't
you save some money on film and buy yourself a good meter to find out
how to expose *correctly* ... note: this is not a dig on bracketing ...
I do so when needed, but if you're spending a lot of time (and money!)
bracketing, you're wasting a lot of both.

/jordan
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