On 2/9/2017 1:23 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
John wrote:
On 2/8/2017 10:21 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
I see to recall that green mode shoots only jpeg. If I wanted my
housemate to be able to pick up my camera and get photos of the flood
waters tomorrow, I could say Tav, f/2.8-4 1/60-1/100. Will P mode
automatically pick a good ISO?
I don't see anything in the manual that says "Green mode" shoots only
jpeg. If it's in there, I didn't find it.
I am sure that I remember reading that, and trying it out. However that
must have been on an older model because I just tried it and it seems to
be in raw on both the K-3 and K-1.
You could download the Operating Manual as a PDF & use it to guide you
while you tell your housemate how to set the various controls instead of
relying on us for second hand misinformation.
As we can see from the above, your second hand disinformation is more
accurate than my first hand disinformation.
An admission of ignorance is always more accurate than a wild guess.
http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/support/man-pdf/k-3.pdf
You are making the assumption that I hadn't tried to RTFM. In my
experience the manual aspires to uselessness. The index points to
setting the auto iso limits, but not turning them on or off. I tried
searching the manual, several times, and wasn't able to find it, until I
was able to find it and then I was. On some of those searches, I will
admit that I couldn't see where auto iso was highlighted on the page.
I was making the assumption that you left your K-3 at home in California
with your housemate while you are up there in Oregon (based on the
"wanted my housemate to be able to pick up my camera ... tomorrow").
If I was having to explain something like that over the phone without
actually having the camera in my hands, the diagrams & instructions in
the manual are the next best substitute I can think of.
Even when I do have the camera handy, I find it easier to clarify my
thinking so that I can explain things more clearly if I can look in the
manual to find the proper nomenclature/procedure. When I don't have the
camera with me, I'm not likely to have the paper manual to refer to, but
I know I can find a PDF copy on Ricoh's web site
... if I don't already have a PDF copy on whatever computer I'm
currently using.
I was hoping that someone else had gone through this and could just say
"simultaneously press the iso and the green buttons to put it into auto
iso, but that only works in these modes....", which would have saved me
about 45 minutes of trying to find the information.
And if I *knew* that, I'd have told you, but I'd also refer you to the
specific page in the manual where I got the information from.
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