dreamon wrote:
And on the technicians and engineers who programmed the setting. Sometimes, it works well; sometimes, the situation doesn't fall within the parameters of their 'photographic vision.'
Myself, I mostly work in aperture-priority mode, sometimes in manual mode (say, landscape stuff), and sometimes in Program mode.
I just try to use what fits the occasion.
I use Manual nearly all of the time, especially with landscapes, because I have the luxury of reviewing the results and time to decide which variable to change.
But under most circumstances it's not the light that changes. It's the reflective properties of the subject. I can still get away with Manual by avoiding blown highlights and recovering shadow information in post processing. An incident reading or even Sunny 16 is more reliable than the camera's meter.