Green mode is meant to be an "idiot mode," if you'll pardon the expression. It's there so that someone with no knowledge of photography can pick up the camera and get suitable results. Overriding any settings that were accidentally tweaked is obviously part of that plan. For more advanced users, who want to preserve their settings but still shoot without much thought, there is the P or program mode. It will pick an exposure for you if you just want to pick up the camera and shoot, but it will do that in respect to your menu selections. You wouldn't want a green mode that did exactly the same thing.
Paul On Apr 19, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: > On Apr 19, 2011, at 9:12, Steven Desjardins wrote: > >> I gave my wife an optio i-10 (that little retro compact that was way >> overpriced at $300) when it dropped down to $100. I set her green >> button to perform a basic reset, which she thinks is the greatest >> thing since sliced bread. I toyed with exposure compensation, which >> it needs since it can really blow out the highlights if left to >> itself, but her comfort zone is to have a way to guarantee a picture. >> This thinking sometimes slips into their higher end models. >> > > Green Button is not the same as "Green Mode"... (Sorry 'bout the inline > reply) > >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >>> Green mode overrides your configuration and saves the file as jpeg. >>> >>> I never used it on anything but snapshots and documentation, but I hate >>> features that override your own global settings. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
