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Panasonic G85 from an Olympus user

Started Nov 20, 2016 | Discussions thread
Helen
Helen Veteran Member • Posts: 7,606
Re: Two dials and exposure compensation
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Michael Meissner wrote:

bthomas001 wrote:

I have never understood why people say this.

In manual mode, change the aperture or shutter speed +/- from what the meter says correct exposure is...

That only works if you have ISO fixed (and change that as needed). If you allow ISO to be set automatically in manual mode (which is an option in Olympus, and I don't recall if it is in Panasonic), you want to be able to control the exposure compensation. Otherwise, once you set the aperture and shutter speed, the camera might decide to bump up the ISO.

You can have auto ISO in manual mode on all current Panasonics too. They don't allow exposure compensation in this mode, though. This latter limitation is also the case with most Olympuses, but the Pen-F and E-M1 Mark II do have the facility.

I will grant that in that case, it is useful to have exposure compensation be on a separate button, and to have one dial do the normal exposure compensation and the other do flash compensation. But for me, it is not a normal use case, since I rarely use M mode. But I can understand that those who use it can find a use for it.

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