Hi, I am struggling to understand how "Customize command dials/Reverse rotation" is supposed to work when Easy Exposure Compensation is enabled. The two sub-items in that menu are "Exposure compensation" and "Shutter speed/aperture".
When both boxes are unchecked in aperture priority mode the world makes sense: rotating the command dial CCW increases the exposure by slowing down the shutter speed, while rotating the sub-command CCW increases the exposure by increasing the aperture
When both boxes are unchecked in manual mode the response is partially reverse: rotating the command dial CCW decreases the exposure by increasing the shutter speed, while rotating the subcomand dial CCW still increases the exposure by increasing the aperture.
To add insult to injury, the labeling of the two options "Reverse rotation" makes absolutely no sense to me. If in manual mode i check "Reverse rotation/exposure compensation" absolutely nothing changes. However, if I check "Reverse roation/shutter speed/aperture" the function of both the command and sub-command dial is reversed.
Why the difference in behavior, and can I get manual mode to behave like aperture priority?
The command dial is serving as the EC dial in Aperture Priority mode (w/Easy Exposure Compensation Enabled), whereas that same dial controls the shutter speed in Manual mode. This is why the camera has two separate options for the dial rotation (EC and Shutter Speed/Aperture), and also why the EC rotation setting has no effect in Manual mode.
That said, I see your point about the inconsistency of rotation direction of the two dials in Manual mode terms of whether they increase/decrease exposure. Unfortunately the reverse-rotation setting applies to both dials, so it just inverts them rather than allowing them both to be changed so exposure changes in the same way in a given direction.
snapsy wrote:
The command dial is serving as the EC dial in Aperture Priority mode (w/Easy Exposure Compensation Enabled), whereas that same dial controls the shutter speed in Manual mode. This is why the camera has two separate options for the dial rotation (EC and Shutter Speed/Aperture), and also why the EC rotation setting has no effect in Manual mode.
That said, I see your point about the inconsistency of rotation direction of the two dials in Manual mode terms of whether they increase/decrease exposure. Unfortunately the reverse-rotation setting applies to both dials, so it just inverts them rather than allowing them both to be changed so exposure changes in the same way in a given direction....Show more →
Thanks for the clarification.
Wish the labeling of the options was cleaner so it is clear what they do without having to write out a truth table. On the very low chance that someone from Nikon is paying attention to this board, it would be great to have "Reverse rotation" with three separate options --> command dial, sub-command dial, exposure compensation. Or maybe tie the "exposure compensation" option to the sub-command dial when EECE is enabled. This would eliminate the mind-bending exercise of figuring out which box controls what. As things stand today, the boxes affect different dials depending on whether the camera is in P, A, S, or M.
I am sure there is a deep reason inside someone's head at Nikon HQ for both this and why the M and S modes behave differently from the A mode in terms of direction of rotation :-)
