dosk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A few questions;
>
> 1] If one is not using any of the special zoom effects (such as IST), of
> what use is the power zoom? Doesn't it just do the exact same thing you can
> also do manually, without draining batteries?
Hi Skip and all,
My answers:
1] Three speeds electrical zooming. Yes (never used the feature);
> 2] When one selects the MTF program line, the manual says it makes the
> camera select the aperture on an AF lens "at which that lens is sharpest".
> Does it select this setting regardless of available light? IOW, would it
> select a lens sharpest (but perhaps inappropriate) f11 for a non-flash
night
> shot?
2] No, it will select the "best" aperture according to the available light
(with my FA 50/1.4 the MTF program chooses f/2 when the light is very low. It
doesn't choose the max. aperture value).
> 3] And what does it do with shutter speeds in this MTF mode?
3] The speed follows the aperture.
> 4] And, if an MTF set-up camera does select the "sharpest" lens aperture,
> but also only the one appropriate for the current lighting, isn't this just
> simply an aperture priority program line?
4] Yes and no... The MTF mode surely takes care of the light like a normal
program mode, but with the plus that it avoids to let the lens shoot wide
open. The last summer in France I left my Z-1p almost always in MTF mode. The
pictures were all very sharp and I rarely felt the need to switch to another
exposure mode (the most used lenses were the FA 50/1.4 and the FA 20-35/4,
which are sharp at almost every aperture...)
> And pray tell, what in the world does the "Normal" program line do? I mean,
> what's left for it?
P&S style shooting? ;-)
> Thanks,
> Skip
You're welcome
Gianfranco
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