AutoISO messed up.... AGAIN? arrrrrrr it's just not that difficult

[LetTheRightLensIn]

Phil, I get your point and i'm all about innovation, or i wouldn't have gotten to where i am.  You have auto ISO, you have a minimum shutter speed you can set and the camera will abide by as long as it can get an accurate exposure, but in the end it is not a mind reader...   For what i'm concerned, the camera can do so much, it can calculate the exposure, calculate exposure based on the parameters of the min shutter THAT YOU SET, and there you go... unless you are shooting 400mm lenses or bigger and or teleconverters, the 1/250 minimum is plenty adequate unless you are shooting some oddball thing like races or whatever...  then in those situations where shutter is important, one click from AV to TV solves the shutter requirement issues.  This thread can be retitled.

The whole point of AutoISO other than a few who want it just for pure convenience is to switch things when thigns are going on too fast to do things yourself and in those scenarios 1/250th is usually frightfully too slow. Wayyy slow for wildlife or sports.

And what are you defending it for? It's like a single byte of code difference would fix it and every other manufacturer gets it right and puts in at all tiers top to BOTTOM.

Again autoiso is hardly an end of the world thing, but what on earth is wrong with Canon marketing? Why cripple such a little thing for no reason when all it does is erode customer loyalty. That is one and only thing Canon gets out of doing it.

[LetTheRightLensIn]

.. then in those situations where shutter is important, one click from AV to TV solves the shutter requirement issues.  This thread can be retitled.

Yes if you have a screwdriver and glue so you can open up the lens and fix the aperture you want to shoot it in..

Well a tip from one professional to another, if you shoot on P or that shiney green box setting it will do all the guess work for ya!  how bout that?  a mind reading camera...  we photographers have gotten spoiled... the difficulty, the discipline needed to be a professional has gone by the wayside and whats left?  People who want the camera to do it all for them and all they have to do is click a button.  It's a sad reality we live in.

What on earth are you going on about? What does P mode or the camera solves everything for you have to do with anything under discussion here?

[LetTheRightLensIn]

To be honest I'm disappointed about the attitude here. We aren't talking about a light leak which affects virtually no one ever - we're talking about a feature which is still not right in *3* generations of cameras.

I'm not talking about sending my camera back, switching brands or even moaning if canon made me pay for it: but this is an important feature for me, a 1d is too loud and I don't want to switch brands.

By moaning, maybe someone will notice and give me what *i* want in the camera considering its just a firmware tweak?

Assuming it is just a firmware tweak, and I think you said you can do that in a few minutes or so...  why dont you email canon and while you are at it, send them your resume....  surely what canon needs is forward thinking and innovation that they lack... 

Of course it's just a couple byte tweak, all it has is some code that stores the limit as 1/250th when it could store it the limit as say 1/2000th, all you do is change the list of options it offers you and add a few more numbers to the list. It probably would take them about 1 minutes of coding to fix. Adding EC in M AutoISO might take a bit more, but likely not much, unless the camera has some sort of mode/dial based interrupt system and they have it set up in some messy way, then it might become a little involved.