Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
My camera, if the exposure is outside the camera's limits to set correctly, just changes the information in the viewfinder to red to let me know there's a problem, but it nonetheless takes the picture. This seems to me to be the best compromise.


Yes, this is best. I tend to take pictures of folks doing things, so I don't always have time to set the camera up properly. I would rather have a crappy pict than the memory of a defiant camera.

I miss a lot of shots because of my cameras these days. That never happened with the AE1...

Maybe I should look at your camera, it seems a good all around choice.