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For my Canonet GIII QL17, I just "discovered" that I can do an "exposure lock" before taking the picture in Auto mode...
Say I am want to meter the light from another area, I point my camera there and depress the shutter halfway to lock the suggested aperture. Then recompose and click. Just like some modern day electronic/digital cameras.
They already have that in the early 1970s .... cool!
Anyone knows if the Yashica Electro GSN has the same kind of feature? Where depressing the shutter button halfway holds the suggested shutter before we recompose and take the photo?
Say I am want to meter the light from another area, I point my camera there and depress the shutter halfway to lock the suggested aperture. Then recompose and click. Just like some modern day electronic/digital cameras.
They already have that in the early 1970s .... cool!
Anyone knows if the Yashica Electro GSN has the same kind of feature? Where depressing the shutter button halfway holds the suggested shutter before we recompose and take the photo?
The early aperture preferred automatics were electronic, and did not have the equivalent of an exposure lock feature. I think the first with it was the Nikkormat EL. Rather than depleting a capacitor at a rate controlled by an electric-eye, the EL charged a capacitor when you pressed the button and then filled a second capacitor to match it. The exposure lock "locked" the 1st capacitor at its setting. (my words, remembering an old Modern Photo article)
The Canonet and other shutter-preferred automatics were mechanical, and used the "trap-needle" system. As you pressed the release down, a mechanism trapped the meter needle and then closed the aperture down to meet it. Pressing the release half way is trapping the needle.
The Canonet and other shutter-preferred automatics were mechanical, and used the "trap-needle" system. As you pressed the release down, a mechanism trapped the meter needle and then closed the aperture down to meet it. Pressing the release half way is trapping the needle.