Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdcsu!herbie From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Re: Aperture vs shutter priority: which is better? Message-ID: <955@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 17:16:32 EST Article-I.D.: watdcsu.955 Posted: Wed Feb 13 17:16:32 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 00:49:49 EST References: <238@mhuxr.UUCP> <8200@brl-tgr.ARPA> <953@watdcsu.UUCP> Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo Lines: 26 Summary: In article <953@watdcsu.UUCP> haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS]) writes: >Really? On an AE-1 (and T-70 for that matter) it's at least for me >much easier to change the shutter speed than the aperture. To change >the shutter speed doesn't require moving my finger very far from the >shutter release, whereas for the aperture I have to use my left hand >(and, boy, my left hand doesn't know what the right one is doing!). > > \tom > watmath!watdcsu!haapanen yet another 0.02 worth. the Pentax ME Super series of cameras don't have a shutter speed dial. they all use buttons to cycle the shutter speed up and down when in shutter priority or manual mode. i have used one enough to find that the difference is marginal in convenience. the othe Pentax models use the traditional shutter speed dial and it is too hard to turn with one finger so the aperture ring is more convenient to use. Herb Chong... I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!water!watdcsu!herbie CSNET: herbie%watdcsu@waterloo.csnet ARPA: herbie%watdcsu%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa NETNORTH, BITNET, EARN: herbie@watdcs, herbie@watdcsu