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From: jorge@genat.UUCP (Jorge Olenewa)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Buying a 35 mm camera
Message-ID: <2618@genat.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Mar-86 03:38:53 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 29 03:38:53 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Mar-86 06:09:25 EST
References: <2595@genat.UUCP> <12728@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: jorge@genat.UUCP (Jorge Olenewa)
Organization: Genamation Inc. (Toronto Ontario, Canada)
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Summary: 

In article <12728@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> ucbvax!jordan (Jordan Hayes) writes:
>In article <2595@genat.UUCP> jorge@genat.UUCP (Jorge Olenewa) writes:
>
>	How can I bracket a lot using auto mode?  Wouldn't the camera
>	adjust the shutter speed automatically everytime I changed the
>	aperture? Surely you are not expecting me to be using the
>	exposure compensation dial to bracket, are you?
>
>Uh ... yes. Or, alternatively, the "poor man's auto bracket" would
>involve changing the EI of the film ...
>
>The Nikon ec-thingy is about the best designed one I've seen (and I
>hate them!) ... when, on occasion, I've needed (or been forced) to use
>an FE or FE-2, I've found it to be very fast. If you're going to
>bracket with an auto camera, that's what you've got to do.

I feel I owe you an apology since that paragraph was meant to be
sarcastic.  As I had said in my original article, I seldom use my FE-2 in
auto mode,  but......let's not start this all over again.

I completely agree with you on both counts that the Nikon ec-thingy is
the best designed and that I too hate using the blasted dial except when
using it for setting permanent under or over exposure for certain kinds
of film or scenery (e.g.: when shooting snowscapes).  It is quicker and
simpler to use than changing the film speed dial.

On the whole, I hope you will give the FE-2 another (honest) try.  Try to
learn about it's features, consider the accuracy of the info you get when
looking through the finder and experiment a bit with the center weighed
metering.  I used to gripe about the same things you do until I decided
that it was worth learning more about them since I had already bought the
camera and was stuck with it (after all life is an experience isn't it?).
I am sure that you will not be disappointed.

Cheers,

-- 
	Jorge L. Olenewa

Mail:	Genamation Inc.		Phone:	(416) 475-9434
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