AEL = Auto Exposure Lock (?) Press the shutter half way down and lock the shutter/aperture combination - lots of SLR's and arangefinders had that feature. Very usefull for back lit scenes etc. Honeycomb metering: Maybe = multi-segment metering Jens -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 15. februar 2004 15:39 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Do Smarter Cameras make Dumber Photogs?
I don't know what AEL is, but I bet honeycomb metering is for shooting bees. Mark Cassino must use that a lot. <vbg> -frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer >From: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Do Smarter Cameras make Dumber Photogs? >Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 03:46:07 -0800 > >Just out of curiosity, do you use all those features, and >whatever else your camera offers? > >BTW, what's AEL? > >Alan Kerr wrote: > > > > I wouldn't want to be without spot metering, AEL, aperture priority, > > shutter priority, honeycomb metering, DX coding (which as well as > > setting ISO gives the camera information for flash photography), > > wireless flash, predictive focussing, exposure compensation, flash > > compensation. > _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn .com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca