AE means AUTOMATIC exposure. IF you have to press a button every time you want to take a new picture that isnt AUTOMATIC, that is more like metered manual with the exception that it changes to the correct shutter speed for you ONCE and wont update if needed unless you MANUALLY intervene over and over again. JCO
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: istDs - what a great camera! > Open aperture manual is a thinking mans mode > and real time open aperture AE is a nice feature to have > when you need it. AE can always be turned off > but with the *istD it isnt available EVER. > JCO Aperture-priority AE is available when you press the green button. It's a different way of doing it than you're used to, but it certainly *is* aperture-priority AE. And as others have mentioned, it is faster than turning a control to adjust shutter speed in metered manual mode. No comment on "thinking mans mode" as I'm not a "thinking man." ERN
