Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/03

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Jammed
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 22:08:26 +0000
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I think you are giving cameras the credit for too much knowledge, they are 
dumb 'if this do that' type machines - I think you needed the auto ASA with 
manual exposure. I stick with all manual ;-)

john

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> A crib here in that I set the shutter speed to 1/125 but put the ISO to 
> Auto
> with a max of 3200 and also left the aperture on Auto as well. The camera
> decided to use an ISO of only 400 and opened up the aperture to f2.5 which
> has left the girl in pink slightly out of focus. The camera was focussed 
> on the
> woman and, fair enough, she is in focus. However, I would have thought that
> it might have put the aperture up to f5 or so and used a higher ISO to get
> better flexibily in the shot's depth of field. Ah well, live and learn.
> 
> Douglas
> 


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