[Original Message]
From: Tom Reese
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This might make for an interesting thread.
OK -- here's a new thread for it.
Features I use the most in
descending order:
used a lot:
spotmeter
mirror lock-up
ttl flash
less often:
double exposure
auto exposure lock
much less often:
autofocus
multisegment autoexposure
exposure compensation
hardly ever:
autobracketing
Tv mode
not at all:
program mode
I'm interested in how others rate their cameras features.
My list:
Use a lot --
Multisegment metering and program (or Hyper Program, depending on the
camera) for grabbing shots quickly
Exposure compensation (especially with the digitals, to reproduce
low-light scenes as darker than average)
Spotmeter and Centre-weighted metering for those trickier metering
situations
Av mode
Less often --
Autobracketing
Tv mode
TTL flash
Autofocus
Rarely --
Autoexposure lock (prefer manual exposure in those situations because it
has no time limit)
Mirror lockup
Self timer for reasons other than mirror prefire
Even more rarely --
Multiple exposure
Never so far in spite of having three or four cameras that can do it --
Intervalometer
