A77 EV scale in M mode

mikeyp2000 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:25:05 GMT

My a77 EVF shows a handy EV scale in all exposure modes, ranging from -5 to +5. Except in M mode! In M mode, the scale is mostly greyed out leaving just the -2 to +2 range.

Is there any particular reason for this?

When setting up an exposure bracket shot, in P, A or S modes, I can see all the 'chips' lined up along EV scale, indicating where each shot in the set will fall. In M mode, as half the scale is greyed out, the 'chips' at each end of the bracket are more than likely be outside the -2 to +2 range and therefore don't show up. It's a bit annoying!

(a77, FW1.05)

Cheers

Michael

Re: A77 EV scale in M mode

cmosse — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:14:56 GMT

I have noticed that too. I can imagine the values outside the -2 /+2 range are grayed out as kind of a guideline to stay within that range, because otherwise image will be completely under- or overexposed.

I think for a pro-sumer level camera like A77 this is not neccessary and probably a future FW update will include a change for this limitation of the EV-scale in M-mode.

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