On Wed, 23 May 2001 20:36:19 +1000, "Hugh Marchant"
wrote:

>Oops,
>
>Sorry folks, disregard reference to auto exposure shift! I was completely
>wrong. I've had another look - it turns out that the procedure that I
>thought gave an auto exposure shift was simply overriding the aperture
>priority setting. I was fooled by an uncalibrated bar at the top left of
>the viewfinder - I thought this indicated relative + or - shift on the
>exposure that the camera selected. Instead, it shows absolute - that is, if
>you shift the normal manual aperture control whilst on AEA, it shifts
>shutter speed to a new fixed value which will not change when the light
>level rises or falls. I hate the problems with our XL1, but I must admit
>Canon certainly gives you far greater control over camera features (very
>nice auto exposure shift, if a touch too low at only + or - 2 stops). Shame
>about the incredibly bad lens design and the appalling focus.
>
>Damn it. Looks like I'll be staying with full manual exposure on the VX2000
>mostly, after all.
>
>With sincere apologies for the mistake.

Hold on...! ;-)
In the custom controls you can adjust AE bias
(and this works in AE, AE-A, and AE-S...).
Handy for dealing with global exposure errors,
backlight where you want to set a particular
bias level instead of using the excessive BL preset,
compensate for subject matter that is predominantly
very light (snow) or dark, etc.