My favorite mode is Hyper-Manual. The real trick there is to set the preferences so that it keeps the aperture when you press the green button. Then it behaves much like AV mode but without it constantly changing as you recompose. So you spin dial to desired aperture, point the camera at what you want to meter, press the green button (camera sets shutter speed) and now you compose and focus.
-- Best regards, Bruce Saturday, May 31, 2008, 6:58:06 AM, you wrote: DGAJ> David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> observed: DGAJ> [...] >> Even though she takes her daughters pictures, she always checks that i >> will be to, as she said" Yours are great, mine are all fuzzy and >> blurry." >> >> At the show last weekend, she said the same thing so i asked her, what >> mode are you shooting, shutter priority, ap priority etc. >> >> She said Auto, thats the only mode she has used since buying the camera. >> >> I told her how changing that, should, help her pictures, but she did >> not know how to do it, nor cared much to even try. DGAJ> [...] DGAJ> *sigh* Even though she knew she was unhappy with her results. Argh. DGAJ> At least she now knows it's not a fundamental flaw/limitation of her DGAJ> camera, right? DGAJ> When I took the *istD out of the box, I fired off a few shots in DGAJ> 'green' mode. I quickly discovered that the HyperProgram features DGAJ> I'd heard about weren't working, peeked at the manual, and changed DGAJ> the camera over to 'P' mode, which does do what I'd expected. DGAJ> Playing with HyperProgram a bit, I thought, "Gee, I wonder how often DGAJ> I'll need/want to use any of the other modes. I'll probably leave DGAJ> it on 'P' the whole first week." DGAJ> The next day found me switching to 'Tv' for a while and back to 'P'. DGAJ> The third day found me shooting in 'M', and then using a non-A lens DGAJ> in 'Av'. When I finally got around to 'Av', I was amused to notice DGAJ> that it was the next to last mode I used, considering that it was the DGAJ> mode I used most often when I had a Super Program and the way I'm DGAJ> used to shooting with the K2. DGAJ> Last night somebody was shooting off fireworks. Really low altitude DGAJ> stuff, but still arial bursts. If they'd kept it up just a few minutes DGAJ> longer, I would've gotten around to shooting the *istD on 'B'. DGAJ> Boy was I wrong about how long the camera would stay in 'P' mode DGAJ> once I started using it. Even with the 'Hyper-' aspect added to DGAJ> the program mode, I'm still switching modes for different environments DGAJ> and subjects (and different lenses), like I did without HyperProgram DGAJ> (despite how nifty as HyperProgram really is). DGAJ> I haven't used the 'AF.C' focus mode much yet, but I do keep flipping DGAJ> back and forth between 'AF.S' and manual focus, even when using an DGAJ> autofocus lens. DGAJ> Of course, there are still some tricks this camera can do that I haven't DGAJ> gotten around to exercising yet. I've only touched two settings in the DGAJ> 'custom function' menu so far (fortunately it came with such settings DGAJ> as "let me use non-A lenses" already turned on, so I didn't have to go DGAJ> look for that one). What I haven't sussed out by the time I go to DGAJ> Pennsic, I'll probably wind up exploring while I'm at Pennsic. DGAJ> I'll probably set it back to 'green' mode when I hand it to somebody DGAJ> not used to an SLR and ask them to take my picture. The one time I've DGAJ> put it back on 'green' myself since the first time I switched to 'P', DGAJ> I found myself wanting 'P' instead within fifteen minutes. DGAJ> -- Glenn -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
