Hi--

>thanks for your kind information. Now the system is becoming clearer to me.

Ah, yes...., thet thar camera-company conspiracy to foist off on us poor
dolts all that AF nonsense......! ;-), ;-)

>As to your move against automation, I can fully understand you, even if I am
>not against the integration of automatic features altogether. I welcomed
>warmly integrated winders, auto-bracketing etc. But already what automatic
>exposure is concerned, the only one I am using is aperture-priority. I
>possessed cameras which offered shutter priority and program modes long
>before I had a lens with which I could make use of them. And when I finally
>got them, I tried all the modes only to get back to my former tradition:
>Aperture priority together with AE lock and compensation, sometings all
>manual mode.

Ah, but I find manual mode bypasses the need for AE lock and compensation,
since it can all be done in one integrated smooth operation manually - no
"undo/bypass" moves necessary....;-) I am even moving that way for video -
beats trying to second-guess the auto features.

>And I do focussing on my own, still, even if I sometimes think that under
>certain conditions a modern AF-camera could be nice. But I have never tried
>one so maybe I am overrating the possibility of AF-cameras a bit.
> HANKE

Depending on how well you can see the VF screen, and on your standards of
convenience (retries are necessary with AF) or standards for sharpness,
you may, or may not, like it. For me, too much second guessing/retrying
are necessary - it is easier to do it manually (in a direct process)
in the first place.
David Ruether