Hmmm..... my impression was like u r silly if u use m mode but still use camera metering for exposure assisting...
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I meant one is silly to use manual setting that follows the camera metering exactly. Like someone is silly to add numbers manually when there is a calculator nearby. Of course one can argue that the manual addition is done to excercise the brain...but it is definitely not the best use of one's time when the results are due in a short time.
To elaborate...a photographer picks an aperture setting blindly, and then turn the shutter speed dial while checking the camera's metering until the exposure meter shows that the exposure is correct. Say the shutter speed is 1/60. The photographer then happily presses the shutter release. How is that any better than just using aperture priority mode, in which the camera would still use the shutter speed of 1/60 and arrive at that setting in a much shorter time that gives the photographer a better chance of capturing the decisive moment of the scene?
To use the auto transmission versus manual transmission analogy. Imagine a car that has both auto and manual transmission mode that the driver can switch between. And imagine the car also has a "gear recommendation" indication that shows the driver which gear the auto transmission mode would be using at any time. Now imagine 3 different drivers:
1. A driver who drives in manual mode, and does not refer to the "gear recommendation" indication at all, but relies on his experience and the actual driving conditions to set the gear.
2. A driver who uses the auto tranmission mode completely.
3. A driver who uses manual tranmission, but sets his gear according to the "gear recommendation" indicator, but tells everyone that he drives "manually".
Which driver sounds like the photographer who claims that M mode is the true photogrpahy mode?