The best part of this is that, while they effectively gave hardcore old-school dial fans like me an option to essentially treat C as Auto ISO without menu diving, you also can set things up like they worked before (Auto ISO on when on all speeds so you can choose an ISO floor) which accommodates both camps. It also lets you turn off Auto ISO on C so you can use a command dial for that, if that's what you prefer - I'm thinking people who love the style or just wanted better AF with Expeed7 before the Z6III was released, but aren't into using the physical dials.
To me it's the best of all worlds - all these operating paradigms are supported with the same hardware. It's a shame that Nikon does not pay someone like Thom Hogan to write their manuals, technical supplements, and release notes. What I read in their manuals is worse than someone translating from Japanese to English, it also seems like the engineers describing the function don't actually ever use their cameras. They don't need to be artists, they can be technicians like me, who struggle to make anything artistic, but hone my craft to best capture what I see to share with others and to reinforce my own memories as I get older.
I've already got a perfectly comfortable and reasonably lucrative job, but I'd gladly take a nominal fee to write these things for them - fly me to Japan to handle the camera with beta firmware, and have the engineers explain what they did (with a Japan-English translation if they aren't comfortable in English themselves) - I bet if they *showed* me the changes I could explain it to everyone.
Hell, I read the release note on the changes in the ISO dial, and while I *guessed* it meant what it meant and gave me my desired behavior - making the C setting on the ISO dial switch from manual to Auto ISO - I wasn't quite certain. An engineer demonstrating for me would have let me give you a release note you could all understand.
This is not me big-timing myself, it's just simply that I have 23 years of experience in electronic medical records where I similarly had to explain functionality to people who were experts in their field but computer neophytes. Technical writing is a skill I developed dealing with those folks.
To me it's the best of all worlds - all these operating paradigms are supported with the same hardware. It's a shame that Nikon does not pay someone like Thom Hogan to write their manuals, technical supplements, and release notes. What I read in their manuals is worse than someone translating from Japanese to English, it also seems like the engineers describing the function don't actually ever use their cameras. They don't need to be artists, they can be technicians like me, who struggle to make anything artistic, but hone my craft to best capture what I see to share with others and to reinforce my own memories as I get older.
I've already got a perfectly comfortable and reasonably lucrative job, but I'd gladly take a nominal fee to write these things for them - fly me to Japan to handle the camera with beta firmware, and have the engineers explain what they did (with a Japan-English translation if they aren't comfortable in English themselves) - I bet if they *showed* me the changes I could explain it to everyone.
Hell, I read the release note on the changes in the ISO dial, and while I *guessed* it meant what it meant and gave me my desired behavior - making the C setting on the ISO dial switch from manual to Auto ISO - I wasn't quite certain. An engineer demonstrating for me would have let me give you a release note you could all understand.
This is not me big-timing myself, it's just simply that I have 23 years of experience in electronic medical records where I similarly had to explain functionality to people who were experts in their field but computer neophytes. Technical writing is a skill I developed dealing with those folks.
