One button toggle on and off of precapture is great, must admit that I thought that they would never do it, so really great that they actually did it, thanks Canon….
One major flaw with the programming of the camera that still remain, and which I don’t see anyone else talking about, is that in Av (and P) mode(s), You for some odd reason can’t get a faster shutterspeed than 1/8000th, and with f/1.2 in bright sunshine and a white swan or dress, thát is not going to cut it, so one have to change to M mode, but setting for instance 1/12.800th of a second there, if a cloud cover the sun for a moment, and one for some reason doesn’t adjust, or if there suddenly is a shot in the shade to be caught, the AutoISO may end up at 1600 or something, and on a bright sunny day, thát is simply stupid....
- Particularly considering that while noise is no major problem at ISO 1600, the number of tones from black to white will be reduced, and thát doesn’t help with the ability to recover details in the highlights, if allowing faster shutterspeeds in Av (and P), thát would be no problem whatsoever, You just stay in Av and shoot whatever You see….
It could also be at a concert, where the scene all of a sudden explode in bright light, in both Av and M there will be a whole lot of adjusting that need to be done, very quickly, so thát image is basically impossible to catch.
- Any way, if the problem is that in faster shutterspeeds than 1/16.000th, the shutter change in whole stops, then AutoISO can fix thát without ever getting past ISO 200….
Go to Fv mode then, people have said, but
I have been in Av since I bought my first Canon, the Eos 620, back in the ’80s, and really prefer to stay there, together with exposure compensation on the rear wheel, and now AutoISO, You have complete control over the camera, in very simple steps….
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