Anyone with a Nikon WC-E24 wide converter?

billstrather <unknown.RemoveThis@zeromail.org> wrote:

> I only buy top of the line P&S cameras. All of the ones that I own have EV
> compensation one button away. Or more importantly, all the manual controls for
> each function only one button away. I wouldn't buy one that didn't have all the
> primary functions of any camera under each finger. Automatic exposure is never
> accurate for any subject, ever. Anyone who doesn't know this only reveals how
> much photography experience they have.

Anyone who hasn't yet even discovered that good modern autoexposure is
more often correct than not certainly does reveal their photographic
experience.

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On 24 Nov 2007 11:21:05 GMT, Chris Malcolm <cam DeleteThis @holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

>billstrather <unknown DeleteThis @zeromail.org> wrote:
>
>> I only buy top of the line P&S cameras. All of the ones that I own have EV
>> compensation one button away. Or more importantly, all the manual controls for
>> each function only one button away. I wouldn't buy one that didn't have all the
>> primary functions of any camera under each finger. Automatic exposure is never
>> accurate for any subject, ever. Anyone who doesn't know this only reveals how
>> much photography experience they have.
>
>Anyone who hasn't yet even discovered that good modern autoexposure is
>more often correct than not certainly does reveal their photographic
>experience.

You don't have much photography experience do you. Nor with many cameras.
Probably with no diversity of subjects either.

Quick, what exposure setting will you use for a macro-photo shot of the intense
specular highlights off of snow in sunlight, those highlights are magnitudes
brighter than the snow. Reflecting in a myriad of rainbow colors. What exposure
setting will you use so as not to lose those intense, extremely bright colors
without making the snow look gray or black? Be reminded that if you expose for
too low those colors will be easily lost in the clipping that occurs in digital
media. Each one is only 1 value away from blowing out the R, G, or B limits of
the sensor in which it resides. Pay no attention to the camera's auto exposure
settings, it can't even see those specks of intense colors and will discard
them, averaged in with all the snow behind them.

I could type 10 books worth of examples just like this. Each example as
difficult and each perfectly showing where the "Auto" setting in ANY camera will
fail to provide me with what I need to know and fail to capture what I wanted to
capture.

As I said, you don't have much photography experience, nor with many cameras, do
you. Either that or you just shoot pictures at kid's birthday parties and have
never once in your life pushed your snapshooter's skills beyond that.

Go back to rec.photo.digital.beginners and quit wasting the time of people that
know what they are doing.