GracieAllen
Senior Member
<commence ranting, whining, and complaining about something I admit is moderately trivial>
I KNEW it was too good to be true... A replacement for a D300 with a good frame rate, and an OK resolution (lower than the D7200 but better than the D300), ESPECIALLY one that's touted as a D810 with a crop sensor... Which in my world means ALL the buttons, controls, doo-dads, and other fiddly things you have to learn with every new body are in the SAME place as the D810 and work the SAME WAY......
Anybody want to take a guess as to WHICH button I APPARENTLY USE A LOT? One that isn't there any more on the D500? Turns out I change shooting modes a LOT... From aperture mode to manual, maybe back to shutter priority, but a LOT of switching between aperture mode and manual...... Imagine my surprise when I got out and found some birds to shoot today, and my finger jumped to the MODE button and THERE WASN'T ONE... Eventually I figured out it had MOVED to the OTHER side of the camera where it's as inconvenient as possible and requires using the OTHER hand to get at... BUT, on the other hand, the ISO, which I MAY change once in a while, is now sitting right next to the record button that I've previously used for ISO on previous bodies...
So, Nikon, here's a D810 - it has a MODE button on top. If you REALLY MUST have an ISO button, WHY NOT HAVE BOTH OF 'EM... Why REMOVE the MODE button - the ISO button doesn't appear to be in the same location so WHY NOT JUST HAVE BOTH OF 'EM? And WHY make the record button and ISO button DEDICATED? WHY not just let me REPROGRAM the movie record button like I did on the D7200?
<ranting, whining, complaining off>
Yes, the body is nice. The 10 fps works well. When the battery grip gets here it'll work fine with the extra buttons (which it turns out I ALSO use a lot).
I haven't found anything in the manual or online, but does ANYBODY know of a way to REPROGRAM EITHER of those &^%$# buttons to let me switch shooting modes?
I KNEW it was too good to be true... A replacement for a D300 with a good frame rate, and an OK resolution (lower than the D7200 but better than the D300), ESPECIALLY one that's touted as a D810 with a crop sensor... Which in my world means ALL the buttons, controls, doo-dads, and other fiddly things you have to learn with every new body are in the SAME place as the D810 and work the SAME WAY......
Anybody want to take a guess as to WHICH button I APPARENTLY USE A LOT? One that isn't there any more on the D500? Turns out I change shooting modes a LOT... From aperture mode to manual, maybe back to shutter priority, but a LOT of switching between aperture mode and manual...... Imagine my surprise when I got out and found some birds to shoot today, and my finger jumped to the MODE button and THERE WASN'T ONE... Eventually I figured out it had MOVED to the OTHER side of the camera where it's as inconvenient as possible and requires using the OTHER hand to get at... BUT, on the other hand, the ISO, which I MAY change once in a while, is now sitting right next to the record button that I've previously used for ISO on previous bodies...
So, Nikon, here's a D810 - it has a MODE button on top. If you REALLY MUST have an ISO button, WHY NOT HAVE BOTH OF 'EM... Why REMOVE the MODE button - the ISO button doesn't appear to be in the same location so WHY NOT JUST HAVE BOTH OF 'EM? And WHY make the record button and ISO button DEDICATED? WHY not just let me REPROGRAM the movie record button like I did on the D7200?
<ranting, whining, complaining off>
Yes, the body is nice. The 10 fps works well. When the battery grip gets here it'll work fine with the extra buttons (which it turns out I ALSO use a lot).
I haven't found anything in the manual or online, but does ANYBODY know of a way to REPROGRAM EITHER of those &^%$# buttons to let me switch shooting modes?