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EX1 - Question

Started Jan 25, 2012 | Discussions thread
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EX1 - Question

For the first time since owning the EX1 I thought I would try out the SMART fully automatic mode. Yes, I know that is probably equivalent to swearing on these forums!!

I thought that seeing these scene modes actually work well, that the SMART mode might be brilliant if it had the intelligence to select the correct mode all the time, which is probably asking a lot.

So I pointed it out the window into a bright sky with dark lower foreground and it immediately selected Backlit scene mode, which is excellent. I took the photo and it took a normal single shot without the usual double exposure sound and basically didn't work. So I switched it to backlit mode and took another shot and it worked perfectly.

What's the story here, is there a fault in firmware that need to be corrected. How many other modes that it selects don't actually work?

I suppose no one else has ever used SMART mode, but any ideas on whether this is faulty or not.

Brian

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