That's not an issue with modern cameras that use control dials. Equally easy to do either.
Note that many people shoot pseudo-shutter priority in manual with odler cameras for the reasons you note. -Adam J. C. O'Connell wrote: > I have given this more thought and I know why I MUCH > Rather prefer apeture priorty over shutter priority. > In either mode you are essentially choosing both > The shutter speed and f-stop combination so that's > Not really the issue. Its what is being done automatically > For you that's the issue. With aperture priority > The shutter speed is automatic and with shutter priority > The aperture setting is automatic. BUT, and it's a big > BUT, its much harder to manually set shutter speeds via the > Shutter dial on top of the body than it is to manually set aperture > Settings via the aperture ring (Both cases with your > Eye to the finder). Hence I would much rather have the > Camera do whats hardest for me automatically ( set the shutter speeds) > than > Do whats easier for me( set fstops ). That's the jist of it. > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > William Robb > Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:46 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: The JCO survey > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J. C. O'Connell" > Subject: RE: The JCO survey > > >> Aperture preffered was always more >> Popular than shutter preferred, probably >> Because it controls DOF better than >> Shutter preffered does. Many many SLRs >> Had it while few offered shutter priority. >> Can you name a single camera that only >> Had shutter priority? ( not just an addition >> To aperture priority) > > Trick question since by your wording you exclude cameras that have > manual mode in addition to auto. > You don't get to do that. > > Aperture preferred was technically easier to do, which was why it was > done. It was easier at the time to control the shutter electronically > than it was to stop down the lens mechanically. > > More pictures are compromised by slow shutter speeds than too little or > too much depth of field, so you cannot make a case that depth of field > control is more critical than blurry pictures from slow shutter speeds. > > So a few cameras that offered shutter preferred but not aperture > preferred automatic: > Note that they all offered manual exposure control as well, they were > not crippled meter cameras like the Pentax MV and it's ilk, or the Nikon > > EM, or Canon T-50. > > The Mamiya/Sekor Auto XTL had shutter preferred auto, as did the Canon > AE-1 (arguably the most popular SLR of it's day), as well as the earlier > > EX EE and EX Auto > The Nikon F2s was able to be adapted to shutter preferred automatic. > With the Canon F1, if you bought a particular viewfinder, then you got > aperture preferred auto, if you bought a motor drive, you got shutter > preferred auto, so it was possible to have an F1 with shutter preferred > auto but not aperture preferred auto. > > William Robb > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
