Posted by Martin Heffels on 01/21/08 00:39

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:24:30 GMT, "peter" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>I have raised this question in a xha1 specific bbs but did not get a
>satisfactory answer. Perhaps someone could shed some light? I'm looking for
>two answers: (1) Is this a design flaw? (2) How to work around this in the
>scenerio above? BTW, I have no control over the lighting in the theater.

It's not a design flaw. It's the current trend in all modern camera's The
fact that you could rotate through all the settings before, was a luxury,
as most other camera's had 3 presets, and that was it. For people used to
thse presets, this is an enormous improvement, as you can set the gain to
your own liking.
Yes, this kind of switch assumes you will have control over your lighting.
Changing the exposure, will make the shadows much darker, so cutting all of
this together, will be a challenge ;-) Have you thought of using external
ND-filters to control the exposure? Then your iris and shutterspeed will
stay the same.

cheers

-martin-
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