I tried out the Powershot's Panoramic feature and noticed that it did not lock the exposure. Instead it remeasured the exposure for each picture in the panorame sequence making it very difficult to stitch them together when some bright scenes are mixed with shadow scenes in the panorama shot. Do you confirm this limitation of the A50 or did I do a mistake. I looked everywhere in the menus and user's guide and could not find an exposure lock feature.

Kind Regards, J.D. Moons

-- J.D. Moons (jdmoons@kodak.com), July 12, 1999

Answers

We didn't play too much with the A50's panorama feature, other than a couple of quick shots to check the software. Most sets seemed to come out OK (although there weren't large brightness variations), one had a dramatic shift in exposure. Didn't know if we'd made a mistake either, had no time to repeat.

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), July 23, 1999.

The exposure lock is having the button pressed down half way. Just take all 4 pictures without letting up off the shudder button. The exposure (and focus) will stay locked for all the pictures you take until you let go of the button all the way.

-- Ian Shaffer (ishaffer@cyberrealm.net), July 26, 1999.