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

e1rond wrote:

Does any camera manufacturer implement a minimum shutter setting? I've thought the exact same thing before about how useful a minimum shutter setting would be.

Samsung in their NX mirrorless series. I find it extremely useful in A mode.

MayaTlab0 wrote:

G1Houston wrote:

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.

Simply because camera manufacturers are stupid. There is no other way to put it. There is no technical limitation. Panasonic spent resources to allow users to be able to set the camera's auto AF point selection area in a row or column (frankly, is it that useful ?) and not on implementing a decent auto ISO implementation... even though the LX series cameras already had the ability to select a custom minimum shutter speed in auto ISO.

I've said this for a long time : camera manufacturers' engineering teams are brilliant, but their design teams are mostly rubbish.