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 Re: Advice for a late adopter - 5diii to R5 | |
The R3 and R5 have a bizarre, unguessable, procedure to get in and out of auto ISO using the dial assigned to ISO. You would think AUTO was below the lowest ISO value like any normal camera. But this is only true when the meter is not running. Once the meter is running the camera is locked in auto ISO if it was in auto ISO, or out of auto ISO if ISO was set to a fixed value.
On my very first outing with the R3 I went out with the metering timer set to a longish value and after a while found the camera had put itself in auto ISO and I couldn’t get it out again, and I had to abandon my session. I went home and had to Google how to fix it... no luck. Then I got the idea the R5 might be the same and Googled... and found a few hits where people had taken their cameras back as faulty after encountering this. Did my camera have a faulty dial? Then I got the idea to search YouTube and found a video explaining it. What had happened was I had bumped the ISO dial on an unfamiliar camera away from ISO 100 when carrying it; and every time I turned the camera on I’d reflexively half-pressed the shutter button so the meter timer was running even after turning the camera off and on. The fix was to set the timer back to its default 4s.
I later figured out you can terminate the timer by double-pressing the MODE button (inside the shoulder wheel).
It’s just dreadful product design. Presumably the idea was to automate an auto ISO lock without wasting a button on it. If I had to guess the button marked MODE was exactly that lock button in the original design (it is, after all, in the middle of the ISO dial).
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