What do you mean be “dud”? If you mean wrong exposure, very, very few. Otherwise, a dud depends upon intent and standards. Low standards, few duds, high standards, many duds. G.B. Shaw described the ratio of successes to failures to the number of salmon who make it upstream to spawn.
Easy solution. Do not shoot Kodachrome and your percentage will improve.
Well that’s a real testament to the value and accuracy of auto-exposure mode! My experience with Nikon A-modes tends to validate.Shooting E6 with stepless electronic shutters (as well as the use of a spot meter when needed), my average success rate is as high as 97%.
Some of these threads feel like I'm in the shvitz with two kranks going at it for the ten thousandth time.
You are correct. It is about someone complaining about a nonexistent problem because he is too lazy to RTFM.
You are correct. It is about someone complaining about a nonexistent problem because he is too lazy to RTFM.
Try a Nikon F2. Shutter speed choice is infinite. You can set the dial on detents or anywhere between.
I don't have a Nikkormat but with the F2 you set it between marks and of course it's tough to tell which speed you actually set it at.I still don't know how to get intermittent speeds with the nikkormat. Set the shutter between marks?
But your F90x doesn't have stepless shutter speed unless you shoot in auto.At this point, it would be time and cost prohibitive for me to pursue, let alone having to deal weight of such a beast.
Besides, my F90x runs circles around it in just about every conceivable way, and only cost me $35 US.
And I find it very frustrating that on the F2 the X speed isn't specifically marked as the speed it is, (1/90, right?) either in the viewfinder or on the dial or on the finder's cover that fits over the dial.I don't have a Nikkormat but with the F2 you set it between marks and of course it's tough to tell which speed you actually set it at.
Why?If someone has a modern Canon DSLR can verify this that even in auto the shutter speed isn't stepless. Which I think is a good thing.
But your F90x doesn't have stepless shutter speed unless you shoot in auto.
I don't have a Nikkormat but with the F2 you set it between marks and of course it's tough to tell which speed you actually set it at.
I like the camera to shoot at shutter speed that it's telling me it does. I don't want it to display 1/125 and actually shoot at 1/110.Why?
And I find it very frustrating that on the F2 the X speed isn't specifically marked as the speed it is, (1/90, right?) either in the viewfinder or on the dial or on the finder's cover that fits over the dial.
Even slide film won't tell you difference between those two speeds though!I like the camera to shoot at shutter speed that it's telling me it does. I don't want it to display 1/125 and actually shoot at 1/110.
Not only that but the difference is considered within specs. However, I do not like the camera using a shutter speed different than the one in the display.Even slide film won't tell you difference between those two speeds though!
What I guess I'm saying I don't see why the difference is meaningful. Unless you're actually testing the shutter with a precision instrument you'd never know. I have never tested any of my shutters with anything more precise than my ear and with one exception in a LF camera where the shutter is manually tensioned, I have never had a shutter cause exposure problems when I set it according to a meter. Interestingly I have had lens transmission cause me to underexpose.Not only that but the difference is considered within specs. However, I do not like the camera using a shutter speed different than the one in the display.
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