ISO changing from mode to mode

[hackmechanic]

Anyone else notice that the ISO is sticky to the mode you're shooting in? i.e. if you set the ISO to 800 in fully automatic, and to 200 in Aperture priority, and 400 in Shutter priority, that as you switch back and forth between these modes the ISO will also change? Anyone else find this annoying? Anyone know how to make it not do that?

 

[lnbolch]

Nope. Have been shooting aperture priority exclusively for decades. I want to choose the sharpest aperture that circumstances will permit. It will give me the highest shutter speeds that conditions permit as well. Being able to set an ISO range as well is simply brilliant.

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[Gordon L]

Anyone else notice that the ISO is sticky to the mode you're shooting in? i.e. if you set the ISO to 800 in fully automatic, and to 200 in Aperture priority, and 400 in Shutter priority, that as you switch back and forth between these modes the ISO will also change? Anyone else find this annoying? Anyone know how to make it not do that?

Yes, that is the case with mine as well, and it is very annoying, and another example of Fujis badly organized menu system.

 

[jay Goldman]

Can you tell me about any other camera that retains different ISOs in different modes.

 

[hackmechanic]

Can you tell me about any other camera that retains different ISOs in different modes.

I can't speak for every other digital camera but every other digital camera I've ever used including a Canon G9, S90, Panasonic LX3, Nikon D70, D200, and D700 don't change ISOs in different modes (not including "styles" like "sports" vs "underwater" etc, just the traditional ones like Av, Tv, M, and P). Not to mention that if digital camera operation is to continue to emulate film camera operation, you couldn't change a film ISO but you could certainly change a camera's mode. And it makes sense to me that you would pick a camera sensitivity for a context but your shooting mode in that context might change so after I've picked an ISO for an environment it would be nice to have it stay on that setting until I change it.

Are there any other cameras that don't maintain an ISO from mode to mode?

 

[jay Goldman]

I guess I am confused. Is it true that the X100 retains different ISO settings in different modes. The X100 manual I downloaded does not seem to say that. In fact, I have never had that in any other camera I have used and I have used many.

 

[nand]

I like it. In cases where I would switch to shutter priority from aperture priority, so I can pick a faster shutter speed, I likely also would need a higher ISO. By pre-setting the higher ISO for shutter priority, I save some time.

Nand.

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[Mark Buckley]

Anyone else notice that the ISO is sticky to the mode you're shooting in? i.e. if you set the ISO to 800 in fully automatic, and to 200 in Aperture priority, and 400 in Shutter priority, that as you switch back and forth between these modes the ISO will also change? Anyone else find this annoying? Anyone know how to make it not do that?

^^ are we meant to guess the camera ?

no my S5 does not do this at all

 

[hackmechanic]

Sorry, with all the hype surrounding the X100 it's easy to put on blinders and think no other camera exists for a bit. But adding the S5 to the list of cameras that don't have a sticky ISO makes it even more disheartening that the X100 does do this when Fuji itself has made their own cameras the way I might expect them to be before the X100 came out. Fuji has just announced a firmware update for a couple of their cameras, hopefully an X100 firmware update isn't too far away, and hopefully it gives users an option to override the sticky ISO.

 

[hackmechanic]

Yes, that's what the X100 does. If you were shooting in full auto, for example, and set the ISO to 1600 and then switched to shutter priority, the ISO will revert to whatever it was the last time you shot in shutter priority, and so on. While I found it frustrating at first it didn't take long to adapt to this quirk, it's just another part of the learning curve to a new camera though one that I didn't expect. Still, I'd like to see a fix for this in a firmware update but I like the camera enough that I'll put up with it regardless.

 

[Tee1up]

Indeed, several other posters have mentioned that there will be an x100 firmware update within the next 7-10 days.

 

[LaFonte]

It isn't very logical, because you would need to remember all the different ISO settings for each mode. Which may be true the day you are using it but pickup the camera next day and you would need to change iso in all the modes or be surprised. Nah, that sounds pretty bad but it also sounds like a feature not a bug. Just a confusing feature.

I am afraid developers like to defend their confusing features so this may stay like that.

 

[meanwhile]

Sometimes all it takes a a quick explanation of why a particular thing works the way it does, what the thinking was behind it, that makes you appreciate it for how it is. I don't think this will be one of those cases though.