Originally posted by Class A The ISO button is in the wrong place. You cannot operate it while supporting a larger lens with your left hand and leaving your right hand in the normal shooting position. As I consider the ISO setting as one of the primary shooting parameters (next to f-ratio and shutter speed, and exposure compensation), I feel this is an unnecessary issue.
I'm not sure whether Jay has once posted a workaround. Maybe it is possible to map the "ISO" function to another button. I do not consider any "Auto ISO" schemes as successful solutions to the problem.
Yes, I've done what Gxtom suggested and it works very well, and you make other assignments also, but that does tie up those assignments to make up for a non-optimal ISO button placement. So that is one legit quibble, but a minor one IMO.
FWIW although auto-ISO is not a solution, it does completely mitigate it for me because I use auto-ISO 90% of the time. Auto-ISO in the D800 has also been improved over the D700 - it can simply be set to a minimum shutters speed, but also can be set to account for the focal length and uses the 1/FL formula to choose shutter speed, and also allows you a 5-position 'slow to fast' setting on top of that - so if you want shutter speed a bit faster than 1/FL (or a bit slower) you can specify that and still keep it in auto-ISO.
For me, personally, I get more keepers in AV + auto-ISO in
most shooting situations. Where I have time to be careful, using one of the wheels to choose ISO works fantastic - but when the shooting is fast & furious and the light is mixed with shadow, AV + auto-ISO just works a bit better for me, and everything is very clean up to ISO 6400, and very PP'able after that.
I usualy use Av + auto-ISO, ISO 6400 max with the shutter speed set to 'auto (1/FL)' there, and use the 'fastest' 5-position setting on top of that. Works great, makes everything as clean as possible without introducing motion blur 90% of the time. You can stop worrying about that stuff and just see/compose/snap, repeat.
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