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

completely agree.

MayaTlab0 wrote:

digitalphotographer wrote:

Dr Hal wrote:

You are 1000% correct. I only hope that someone from Panasonic or Olympus becomes aware of this post. It is my top desire. I am using the GX7 and the GM1 and would love to have this feature. I have been thinking that these 2 cameras are so good that from this point on I will be reluctant to buy future upgrades...however if the would had minimum shutter speed to a camera, I would upgrade.

Actually, the could make this a firmware update.

Why not stop at GX7 and GM1? The "mirrorless camera of the year" EM1 should have this firmware fix too. It's a blatant disrespect for photographers to not offer this, unless this is really an engineering limitation that is hardware based.

On Olympus cameras the issue is slightly (only slightly) less urgent since the slow flash sync unofficial trick works as a minimum shutter speed (with numerous limitations). But indeed that's something all camera manufacturers should add ASAP via a firmware upgrade.

But when you realise that Olympus has never fixed the completely idiotic menu item "Burst mode + IS OFF" where you have to select "off" to actually turn the IS in burst mode on, while it should be the easiest of all fixes on the planet (just change a few letters in the option's title), you start to expect that it's going to take them a decade to change their auto ISO implementation.

Well, most of the review sites are not making any fuss about this, so camera manufacturers assume users, or at least the majority of users don't care?

I think review sites have been much too lenient regarding cameras' ergonomics in general. To me, for example, the Olympus E-M5 would have been torn to bits because of its god-awful button layout / implementation and feel. In fact I can't think of a single camera I'd give a pass concerning ergonomics / handling / user interface, except perhaps the 1DX post 2.0 firmware (and even then I'd just give it a pass to incite other manufacturers to look carefully at the many innovative ideas it's got in that regard).