Originally Posted by WMBP
I don't recall what this looks like on the K100D, but I think it looks like it looks on the K10D, which is sort of like this:
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on the K100D it looks like this :
so It's a number like on your *ist DS, I first thought that the number had to be as high as possible so that explains why ALL my test shots in M last night ever overexposed
Anyways, thanks for a very helpful post (learned a lot from it).
Funny thing though is that you state that most professional photographers don't use the "kiddie" modes like P (not even present on the K10D) however the girl at the camera-store told me yesterday when I went to pickup the camera (she gave a small feature introduction) that she almost always uses the P mode with an external flasher for best result (don't one a flasher yet) but I guess she's a Canikon person herself
I also assume that she's a professional photographer or at least an experienced Hobby photographer.