Kerry Pierce wrote:
How is that any different from using Manual mode on any Nikon that has 2 dials, the main command and sub command dials? You can even reverse them, putting Aperture on the Main and Shutter on the Sub dial.
Because A (for Auto) is just a setting on each dial. Need auto shutter? Move shutter dial to A. Need Auto Aperture? Move aperture to A. Now need to control shutter? move shutter dial to desired number.
I must admit, there is a certain amount of pleasing simplicity to that. I frankly do not have your trouble of remembering what the wheels do, but having the mode just be part of the workflow is not a bad idea.
However, I'm not sure I would love thumbing through all of those aperture or shutter settings to arrive at "A"...
I can't say the current method is exactly a problem for me, though.
Kerry Pierce wrote:
How is that any different from using Manual mode on any Nikon that has 2 dials, the main command and sub command dials? You can even reverse them, putting Aperture on the Main and Shutter on the Sub dial.
bemyzeke wrote:
Because A (for Auto) is just a setting on each dial. Need auto shutter? Move shutter dial to A. Need Auto Aperture? Move aperture to A. Now need to control shutter? move shutter dial to desired number.
Sorry, but I guess that I'm too stupid to grasp the significant difference between either P mode or M mode and what you say you want. P mode does both auto shutter and aperture and you don't need to change the mode dial. Change the shutter and the aperture is automatically adjusted, change the aperture and the shutter is auto adjusted, etc.
M mode is only different in that the shutter or aperture don't automatically adjust to changes in the other.
Kerry, what he's saying is he doesn't have to change a mode dial in order to switch "modes." If he wants aperture priority, it's not a separate mode, he just moves the aperture wheel until it says "auto" (or whatever). If he wants shutter priority, move the shutter wheel until it says auto. Manual? Just move both to what you want.
There does seem to be a certain logic to it, though it limits your flexibility if you actually prefer a mode and then to assign that "empty" wheel to a function (like Easy ISO).
Thanks for the interdiction, binary visions. That sounds like P mode on steroids. Nikon could easily add that to the code, I would think. Perhaps they will, if enough users request it.
With the new firmware update, you can customise the video record button to adjust ISO
Nathan Padgett wrote:
I hate that video button on a D800, so hard to change modes without taking your eye out and readjusting your hands. However on the D4 you can customize it to change ISO and even auto ISO. So now I always stay in manual, and when I need a quickly adjusting mode like aperature mode, I instead just quickly change to auto iso instead.
