Could it finaly be true??

I think any camera that has full manual controls for shooting stills should have manual controls on the movies. But I don't work for a camera company. I'm not a Nikon fanboy but over the years I've collected a number of Nikon lenses that I just could not buy again if I had to change to Canon. So I like my D90 for stills and it's movie side is also fun but frustrating.

I wonder if Nikon feels that manual controls is only a high price feature or a feature they didn't put in the earlier models (D90, D5000, D300s) because they had not worked that out for those models and will add in with a firmware update.

My artisitic budget is very low on the food chain in my house so my hope is Nikon does in fact do the firmware fixes. But in the mean time I'm going to keep coffee canning some money for the next best thing.
 
I hear ya hepa im largely in the same boat. Ive had plenty of shots where you can tell that the shutter speed is not set to an optimal rate (close to 48fps), and as such it just doesnt look right. Especially shooting anything not in direct sunlight its really frusterating.

Im at the point that my last short suffered because of this (shot much of it at night), and if i had say a Canon 7D it would have turned out a little better.

Its hard to justify spending that much, and im wondering if its worth it to make another project with my D90, or upgrade.

Ughhh, its just so much :(

jon
 
The test look good. Did you have some type of support when you were moving around?
 
iHartVideo said:
I didn't know that - I will have to look into this. I thought it was exactly the same as the D300s feature set (but on a full frame sensor).
If that is the case then I would have to think that they will continue to offer this feature in all future models since the software has already been written.

This is encouraging.
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So because you are ignorant of a companies product lineup, I am a fanboy stuck in the 60's :cheesy:
 
Starshine Video said:
So because you are ignorant of a companies product lineup, I am a fanboy stuck in the 60's :cheesy:
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LOL... "ignorant of a companies product lineup"

Did you even read that Reduser post?
Manual operation is NOT in the manual, has NOT been mentioned by Nikon and was only found by fluke. I am as up to speed on the Nikon product line as Nikon allowed me to be. I would bet that you didn't know it either, since you didn't mention it before.

Beyond that most of my complaints hold, with the exception that Nikon has undocumented features for manual video in a $5000+ body.

Still lame.

Hopefully they rectify this with the next iteration.
 
iHartVideo said:
LOL... "ignorant of a companies product lineup"

Did you even read that Reduser post?
Manual operation is NOT in the manual, has NOT been mentioned by Nikon and was only found by fluke. I am as up to speed on the Nikon product line as Nikon allowed me to be.
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Um, actually it is. This is from MaxaMillion on reduser:

"the manual even says the camera controls shutter and aperture".
 
Even then.. my gripe is about functionality at a price point.
Nikon doesn't have it. I honestly hope they implement it in the next iteration but I don't hold out much hope for a firmware update. A firmware update makes the 90/300s much more competitive at their price point.

I truly hope Nikon makes me eat my words and they add it to a Dec 10 firmware update. I own a 300s, after all, I have no reason to be disappointed in such an update.
 
iHartVideo said:
I've known Nikon for much longer than that.
Other than the recent D3/700 they consistently fail to impress and really don't seem to consider what users want.
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The D90 is an exceptional stills camera for its price, and is the first digital camera that has exceeded my expectations. Not to mention they have awesome lenses.

The ergonomics of the 2 dials for aperture/iso control(or others if you want it), is the best in the business, if you ask me.
 
Nikon really pushed the video capability on the D5000, in commercials and on the website. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw firmware for that as well.
 
Jim Klatt said:
Um, actually it is. This is from MaxaMillion on reduser:

"the manual even says the camera controls shutter and aperture".
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Actually, you get to eat your words, not me.

"total control... I was so surprised... the manual even says the camera controls shutter and aperture... I was trying to come up with a work around... maybe exposure lock or something." means that the manual says that the camera automatically controls these variables, not the user.

Re-read the Reduser post.
 
Graciously done, Jim. My words have been tasty from time to time also, with a cabernet sauvignon.

But someone needs to sit down with one of these cameras and gently offer to help. They must feel like harried parents when we go from the LV to the OK button.
 
Nikon support just emailed me.


“For your information, there is no D90 firmware update announced or planned.
In either case, we have forwarded your enquiry to our Design and Quality department for further review and consideration when developing future products and updates. At this moment, however, we are not able to guarantee if and when such functionality would be implemented.
We apologise for any inconveniences this may have caused you.”




So likely, if there is a firmware update tomorrow it's for coolpix or d300s. maybe. I suggest everyone log in to their Nikon Support page, and email nikon for Manual control of ISO and Shutter in D-Movie mode for their d90 and d300s. Maybe enough requests may get through, maybe not.
 
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