Originally posted by ChrisPlatt These bodies do offer AE memory lock, a feature uncommon among Pentax manual focus AE bodies (even the LX !).
In most cases AE memory lock is an effective and far more convenient substitute for an exposure compensation dial.
Chris
I really agree. (though that won't help ISO issues if you have DX-only and no compensation dial) Though I don't even *use* auto exposure with film, unless a) I've already metered over the area and know I agree with the meter everywhere I might point, and b) have some reason to worry I might be distracted, or if I'm doing sports or something and don't want to have to turn the aperture ring over and over. If you've got perfectly good dials and rings, you may as well use them.
Consequently, compensation dials don't see much use with me. I use em so rarely I'd be liable to forget I set them, anyway and run around underexposing the rest of the roll or something.
Sometimes it goes nice with the digital, but I work a rather differently with the computerey interface: the automation's mostly another way to tell the camera what to do.