I fear manufacturers development departments are not good at thinking 'outside of the box' and the short product cycles have cut down available time to let foreigners test prototypes - to make the developers aware of things they just did not 'see'.
If we leave behind the 'film based' thinking, then ISO, aperture and shutter speed have a comparable influence on the final image and all three values should be equally easy to adjust and be equally displayed. What was a combination of two values now is a ISO-speed-aperture triangle (well, it always was...). If it gets darker I can adjust ISO to get the best noise/shutter speed/aperture compromise, if I need shallow DOF I decrease ISO so that I can shoot wide open, if I need a very high shutter speed I can increase ISO until I get 1/6000 and so on. I don't think it is an adequate solution having to turn two dials to adjust ISO and then afterwards not even being able to see what was set (without hitting another button). Sven Zitat von [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Neither my Nikon D100 nor my Nikon D1H display ISO in any of the > normal displays. It'd be real tempting to say "manufacturers didn't > anticipate the desire to see the freely-changeable ISO number in > the normal displays of a digital camera", except that my Nikon F5 > DOES show ISO in the rear display. > Still, perhaps the "amateurs use DX coding" mentality is to blame. > Does the *istD have an "auto ISO" feature? Some of the other low and/or > mid-level DSLRs do, presumably because film speed confuse tyros. > > OTOH, I rarely shoot more than a couple of frames at an inappropriate ISO > before my brain tells me that the settings are fishy and I check to > see where the camera is set. I'd expect most of you have good enough > eye-meters that you aren't going to shoot at 1600 ISO by accident for > long. > > DJE > > > >
