Depends on the camera, but most mechanical cameras allow this. I don't do
it though because you don't know what shutter speed you are using - going
between 1/60 and 1/125 you might get 1/75, 1/90, 1/115 - you don't know,
and it's hard to line it up at the same place again. Of course these
mechanical shutters aren't perfect either, as it will fire at a slightly
different speed everytime at the same setting, but that's more consistant.
Electronic shutters are only stepless in automatic, but are have less
variation in manual because they are electronically timed.
BTW, the ZX-M's shutter speed dial is not stepless, you only get full stops
except you can select 1/100, even if you aren't using a flash.
Todd
At 02:32 PM 7/17/01 -0400, you wrote:
>You mean that if you set shutter speed in betwen 125 and 250, you would get
>shutter speed in between ? Are you sure ? In fact, as I understand, those
>were called stepped shutter speeds and then when electronic shutters were
>introduced, we have stepless shutters - which support stepless when you
>select aperture. However, you can not select shutter speed in between the
>marked steps i.e. say 125 and 250 or 250 and 500 or 500 and 1000
>
>I used Minolta SRT 101, SRT 303 and Pentax KM.
>Never got in between settings for those shutter speeds
>
>
>
>>From: Collin Brendemuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: Greeting from newcomer & aperture question
>>Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:13:07 -0500
>>
>>Au contraire!
>>Your mechanical bodies will do it for shutter speed as well.
>>(I just haven't check out my ZX-M to see if it's mechanism
>>will allow that feature.)
>>
>>Collin
>>
>>At 11:41 AM 7/17/01 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:35:19 -0400
>>>From: "Anand DHUPKAR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>Subject: Re: Greeting from newcomer & aperture question
>>>
>>>in between settings - for aperture, not for shutter speed.
>>
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