Now as for my repeated mentioning of RTFM, at no time did he say in
the posts I read that he actually read the manaul, it was
mentioned much later. I felt compelled to mention the manual more
than once. Again I refer you to my assumption that someone can
figure out the simple operation concerning when are where you can
use command dials to alter settings, from the manual.
No matter...
Chilipalmer,
First, you made six posts in this thread, five of which told TPB to
RTFM. The other message criticized him for not being intuitive
enough to "figure it out by playing with it for only a minute."
This, IMHO, borders on harassment. You made your point in the
first post - no need to "sprinkle" your opinion throughout the
thread.
Now, may I add something constructive? The D70 does, in fact, have
semi-sticky buttons. One half press of the shutter release and you
can make adjustments to the aperture or shutter speed even after
releasing the button. However, the ability to make adjustments is
no longer possible once the metering becomes inactive. The length
of time it takes for the metering to become inactive is determined
by CSM Setting #23. I keep mine on 16 seconds, although active
metering does use up a fair amount of battery power. You may have
your settings on as low as 4 seconds. If this were the case, then
once you stop fiddling with the command dial for more than 4
seconds, the metering shuts down and the command dials will no
longer be active until you give the shutter button another
half-press. So the point I am trying to make is that you don't
have to continue holding down the shutter release to adjust the
command dials as long as the metering is active.
--Will
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Lewis
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