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 p.4 #3 · 5D3 has auto exposure in M, I never knew! | |
So if canon would simply change M to something else that didnt say "manual" then a lot of the discussion would be moot, and all we would be discussing would be how we could use Ec in the newly labeled mode that was once M. 
I think too many are getting hung up on one little letter on the dial and whats its legacy meaning was, but isn't any more.
We have been having these same discussions for years now, auto-iso has been implemented across many canon models now in varying versions (sometimes very crippled with a max of 400), and in the end we just end up thinking of ways to have ec for auto-iso when both dials are used for other settings.
Also, on the 1D4/1DX, using micro AE adjustment isn't very hard at all. If you configure your camera correctly, it is just 2 button presses, the you spin the dial to set your compensation. Just add it to My Menu, then hit Menu, then Set, and spin away. 
Auto-ISO is a game changer for sports, at least for me. It has greatly reduced the post processing time where I missed the exposure. I set shutter to 1/1000, Av to 2/3 stop above wide-open, and auto-ISO. Now I just concentrate on the action instead of messing with changing the ISO all the time. Do I need a new mode on the dial? No, I just need a way to do EC when the ISO is set to auto. Having a new mode on the dial doesn't solve that issue, it just panders to the purists amongst us that don't like M not being full manual with no access to auto-ISO.
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So let's drive this thread back to the real topic of how we could have Ec when both dials are used for shutter and aperture, and leave out the jabbing about "M means manual, and if you use auto-ISO you are not manual any more". That really has no place in the discussion, because we could relabel M to be something else, or make a new mode on the dial, and we would be at the same basic issue again.
My suggestion is this. Add a new configuration option to the Set button (in addition to ISO, File Size, etc), that was EC. So if I set the Set button to EC, I would use Set then dial in all modes including M, to set the EC. It would time out like EC does in the other modes, and then put the dial back to whatever it controls, or I could hit Set again to lock in the EC and put the dial back.
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