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Posted in G1/G2/G3, Photographs
Hi Thomas,
reading your blog and hints by dpreview-talks I learned today: AF/AE-lock button (Hold-Modus) can be used to focus before (independent) from half press shutter. The white focus border turns to green and remains green. Another push on this button is necessary to change. By the way in this mode it is easy (for me)to handle Auto-focus-overwrite or focus control (push left four-way-controller, then menu-set and the manual-focus-magnifier for manual focussing is switched on (without touching the focus ring)). It`s applied research to use a camera without a adequate guide.
Best regards,
Helmut
Helmut – that’s true, but AE/AF Lock remains ‘on’ until you press the button again. In my opinion, it should switch off once the shutter is released (Canon’s 5D does it right), otherwise you are stuck with the same AE and AF for the next picture, which is probably not what you want.
I like your concept of ‘applied research’. In this case that is dictated by the awful instruction book!
A less kind way of putting it is ‘trial and error’. And I a giving the G1 a mighty trial and, slowly, getting it set up the way I want.
I think the goal of AE lock is to hold the exposure settings across shots. E.g. Taking a series of shots for a panorama. But I agree the behavior of this button is not always obvious. So far, I’ve primarily used it to engage the spot meter (another feature that could use some attention in the manual) when I want to meter something that is not dead center in the frame. I’ve on the verge of declaring the spot meter of dubious use because of the AE lock issues. Have you used it much? Do you find the spot useful?
Mark – for my style of photography with the G1, which is almost exclusively street snaps, I have little use or time for the spot meter which would dictate a meter-recompose cycle which is simply too time consuming for my chosen subjects. I actual use matrix metering (no real idea what it does but it works – probably just marketing gobbledegook for ‘averaging’) and if there is a need to underexpose simply depress and rotate the front dial a couple of clicks.
That’s not a criticism of the G1′s spot metering, more a recognition of the realities of street snapping.
Your point on AE lock for panoramas is well taken – I use the 5D for those and simply set it on manual as the subject tends not to move.