With these lenses, exposure control is limited to program and shutter-priority modes.
To begin with, all camcorders have automatic exposure control as standard.
This is combined with exposure control to tailor the effect to represent the human eye.
The original design did not have an exposure control in the viewfinder.
Meter could measure eight individual spots and average them for precise exposure control in difficult lighting situations.
A camera will also have exposure control via an iris aperture located on the lens.
On the other hand, some controls that ought to be right out front wind up buried several menus deep - exposure control, for example.
In terms of automatic exposure control and total electronic integration, however, the N4004 is more advanced.
One is some kind of exposure control.
You can override both the very good autofocus circuitry and the less effective automatic exposure control.