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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Nikon N2000
Message-ID: <1633@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 15:41:38 EST
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In article <32@mit-amt.MIT.EDU> simsong@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Simson Garfinkel) writes:
> Excellent camera, but that's another story). It would also have
> been real nice of Nikon had thought to put on a shutter-priority mode.

Does any Nikon have shutter-priority?  (possibly the FA?)

Nikon's lens interface wasn't designed for the sorts of things
people want their cameras to do these days.  The little pin that
detirmines how far the lens stops down doesn't travel far enough to get
the resolution needed.  E.g. the camera decides that it wants f/5.6,
but with the slop in the mechanism you can't be sure exactly what the
lens will actually stop down to.  They get around this in 'program'
mode by doing a second light measurement after the lens stops down,
and tweeking the shutter speed to compensate.  They could do the same
thing for shutter-priority, but the shutter speed you get could be
quite a bit different than the one you set.  And most people expect
shutter-priority to give them the exact shutter speed they set.
(Otherwise why not just use program mode?)

Most manufacturers have the same problem, which is why most cameras
offer aperture-priority rather than shutter-priority.  (Then their
marketing dept tries to cover-up the problem by concentrating on
depth of field shooting still-lifes rather than freezing action.
If you're shooting still-life, who needs automation?)

Snoopy (ECS Ronin #901)
tektronix!tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy

"Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away."