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Should Panasonic add a Minimum Shutter Duration setting to the GH4?

Started Jun 13, 2014 | Polls thread
G1Houston Veteran Member • Posts: 3,188
Yes, they should — it is long overdue.

mpgxsvcd wrote:

The point of program priority mode is that it is almost completely automated. It is intended for situations where the lighting is not controlled and changing rapidly. It still offers some control over aperture and shutter speed but it has enough automation to handle changing conditions. It can't do this effectively without the min shutter duration setting that the LX7 has.
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Nikon is one of the few companies that implements the auto-ISO well in their mid to upper level dSLRs. Panasonic apparently is not the only company that appears to default to 1/60 sec, I remember in the reviews for SONY A7 and possibly Fuji XT-1, they have the same odd behavior. Is there a technical reason why this cannot be done better or do all the camera engineers go to the same photography school? I don't know, neither can I understand why it was so difficult to enable Exp compensation in M-mode when auto ISO is on.

You and I are probably shooting the same thing most of the time, fast moving kids. I thus use S-priority a lot now with m3/4 cameras since freezing their motion is a far higher priority than DOF (and since the limited implementation of auto ISO).

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