So, just because you can do it all electronically, should you?
I picked up a Fuji X-E1 and 18mm lens from MPB yesterday - cheap as chips though they don't appear for sale as often as the Canons and Nikons of the world. The major controls are pretty much all manual with an aperture ring on the lens, a nice knurled dial for shutter speed and a smaller but just as usable one for exposure compensation.
Set the lens and body to A and you get program mode. Set the Lens to an aperture with the shutter dial on A and you get aperture priority. Shutter dial to a speed and Aperture on A gives you shutter priority. Set both shutter priority and aperture to values and you're in manual mode. There's none of this faffing around with mode selectors and command dials, it's all just there in front of you.
So when did the rest of the world move away from this intuitive method of working? Oh, and having a histogram in the EVF when you take a shot is a massive advantage...
I picked up a Fuji X-E1 and 18mm lens from MPB yesterday - cheap as chips though they don't appear for sale as often as the Canons and Nikons of the world. The major controls are pretty much all manual with an aperture ring on the lens, a nice knurled dial for shutter speed and a smaller but just as usable one for exposure compensation.
Set the lens and body to A and you get program mode. Set the Lens to an aperture with the shutter dial on A and you get aperture priority. Shutter dial to a speed and Aperture on A gives you shutter priority. Set both shutter priority and aperture to values and you're in manual mode. There's none of this faffing around with mode selectors and command dials, it's all just there in front of you.
So when did the rest of the world move away from this intuitive method of working? Oh, and having a histogram in the EVF when you take a shot is a massive advantage...
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