G-6 Shutter speed selection

[bosamar]

This might be a tough question to get across but I'll try to keep it short. A learning difference between traditional SLR and digital cameras.

Back in the early 1980s I bought a Nikon FE2 SLR camera. I still have it, use it often and consider it the best camera I've ever owned. Looking in the FE2 viewfinder there is a shutter speed scale on the left side: 4000, 2000, 1000, 500, 250, 125, 60, 30, 15, 8, 4, 2, 1 in black, (2, 4, 8 in red). When shooting in Auto you turn the f-stop ring until the meter needle is in the desired shutter speed range. Make sense?

How can this function be performed on the G6? Is the process above equivelent to the Av setting on the G6?

Why don't SLR digicams today have this same type of shutter speed scale setup?

[cmar]

I think you are referring to "metered manual" mode

As far as I know the Gs do not have metered manual mode.

On my g3 in manual, when you press the shutter release half way it will tell you in the upper left hand corner of the lcd if you need to increase or decrease exposure and by how much (in stops) in only will tell you within 2 stops, so you need o be close to start with. If the number is in red you are more than 2 stops off.

For example, is you are at F3, 1/1000, and it says -1.5, you need to go to a shutter of 1/320 or 1/400.

Another method, if you need to use a certain aperture or shutter speed, use AV (aperture priority) or TV (shutter priority) mode. Then you can easily change the shutter (TV) or aperture (TV) if you cannot get the correct exposure, and let the camera choose the other variable.

If you want to shoot in manual to decrease shutterlag, take some readings in P, TV, or AV mode, then use those for your auto settings.
Remember to re-check the settings as the light and exposure can change rather quickly

[cmar]

Oh, on second reading of your post, you are using shutter priority, since you are selecting the desired shutter, and the aperture falls wherever it needs for that shutter speed.

But your TV and AV modes are very handy. I use those two modes the most myself.

[bosamar]

Looks like I need to shoot with the Av mode for a while.