Nikon Speaks Up about Manual Control

[Finster]

I'm posting this here only to put a little more pressure on Canon!

From Stu's ProLost Blog ...

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A reader sent this in via the Contact form:
Yesterday, I contacted Nikon about the D-movie feature on the D90 and new D5000 not having manual controls, and asked how real the possibility of an upcoming firmware update would be to allow manual control over the shutter speed and ISO. Well, the reply was very promising, and I thought ProLost would be the best place to share it. Here is the email in full:


We are working on an update to these equipments to allow manual selection of shutter speeds and ISO during D-Movie mode and more, we don’t have a specific date but we are working on it. We have had customers with the same concern and we are trying to improve on this firmware update.

Again, Thank you

The Nikon Team

[Jeff Anderson]

Interesting... Hope that eventually happens.

[Trey T]

i certainly hope D400 comes out to beat the 5DII but we all know corporate is just as evil as others. as a matter of fact, there should be more players out there come and beat 5DII. thats the only way canon will listen. other than that, online petition and non-sense crying over diff board bs is useless.

i dont expect any firmware update until another generation of movie DSLR from canon to come out.