I happened to be thinking about Pentax cameras this morning and remembered another Pentax "easter egg" as you call them. I don't know if it's on the newer bodies, but it was on my PZ1p back when I was shooting film, and if they got rid of it ...
Anyway, in manual mode, if you hit the exposure lock button and then turn one of the dials it'll automatically adjust the other value so that you keep the same exposure.
For example, you've manually dialed in 125@f/8 and decide you want a little more depth of field. So you hit the exposure lock, then turn the aperture dial to f/11 and the shutter speed automatically drops to 1/60th for you.
Anyway, I used that feature extensively when using Pentax, and since switching to Canon I miss it quite a bit.
The K10D comes up with a similar function through "hyper program" mode. In program, if you move the front wheel the mode changes to shutter priority and the f/stop is automatically adjusted to compensate as you change shutter speeds. If you move the rear wheel, you go into aperture priority. To return to standard program mode, you hit the Green Button. I think this will accomplish the same thing as the earlier system you describe. Only problem is that if you want to be able to over-ride program exposures just by turning the front wheel, without having to hold down a +/- button, Hyper-program is disabled, though the rear wheel now gives a program-shift function which once again accomplishes something pretty close to the same function.
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Carl, love your photography.
I happened to be thinking about Pentax cameras this morning and remembered another Pentax "easter egg" as you call them. I don't know if it's on the newer bodies, but it was on my PZ1p back when I was shooting film, and if they got rid of it ...
Anyway, in manual mode, if you hit the exposure lock button and then turn one of the dials it'll automatically adjust the other value so that you keep the same exposure.
For example, you've manually dialed in 125@f/8 and decide you want a little more depth of field. So you hit the exposure lock, then turn the aperture dial to f/11 and the shutter speed automatically drops to 1/60th for you.
Anyway, I used that feature extensively when using Pentax, and since switching to Canon I miss it quite a bit.
Nick,
The K10D comes up with a similar function through "hyper program" mode. In program, if you move the front wheel the mode changes to shutter priority and the f/stop is automatically adjusted to compensate as you change shutter speeds. If you move the rear wheel, you go into aperture priority. To return to standard program mode, you hit the Green Button. I think this will accomplish the same thing as the earlier system you describe. Only problem is that if you want to be able to over-ride program exposures just by turning the front wheel, without having to hold down a +/- button, Hyper-program is disabled, though the rear wheel now gives a program-shift function which once again accomplishes something pretty close to the same function.
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