Shutter speed selections - what might I be missing?

[rebop]

I have an R3. Love it. (But I suspect many more cameras work this way)

I often shoot in Fv. Also love it.

I have aperature on the lens rings. Easy and intuitive for me.

ISO easy to access in at least 2 ways.

BUT, when I access shutter and turn the main dial, it starts at 30 seconds and a loooong scroll to get to the places I want to be such as 1/125th or 1/250th, etc.

I do not understand why it does not start at the faster speeds nor can I find anything I can do to change that. The custom setting for reversing the Tv dial simply reverses the direction, not the order of shutter speeds.

Am I missing something?

~Bob

 

[rebop]

Sorry for the title typo

 

[rebop]

Just tested ALL modes. This is only an issue in Fv. So limited to a few cameras. Will email Canon to see their thinking.

 

[ShipleyNW]

Yeah, I've hit that problem before as well. My standard start settings in FV is with aperture priority and the time value set to Auto. Auto is at the far left edge of the time scale, next to the 30-second mark, so you have to scroll through 30 seconds, 15, 8, 4, 2, 1, 1/2, 1/4,/ 1/8, etc. to get to a more routine shutter speed.

If you've got your speed set to auto, you can half-press the shutter button for a meter reading to get an actual value for the shutter speed. Then you can change speeds starting with the metered value, which should be way closer on the scale than starting at Auto.

 

[rebop]

Yeah, I've hit that problem before as well. My standard start settings in FV is with aperture priority and the time value set to Auto. Auto is at the far left edge of the time scale, next to the 30-second mark, so you have to scroll through 30 seconds, 15, 8, 4, 2, 1, 1/2, 1/4,/ 1/8, etc. to get to a more routine shutter speed.

If you've got your speed set to auto, you can half-press the shutter button for a meter reading to get an actual value for the shutter speed. Then you can change speeds starting with the metered value, which should be way closer on the scale than starting at Auto.

Interesting, thanks. Will have to try that!

 

[rebop]

That is a great suggestion, Ken. a good workaround. Not perfect, but sure helpful.

Canon replied:

When toggling to the Fv shooting mode and the shooting settings like shutter, aperture, and ISO are set to AUTO, the camera will begin at the far lower end of the scale when taking those settings out from Auto.

Unfortunately, there is not an option that would allow the camera to switch over to a desired setting, like a specific shutter speed, when the setting is moved out from AUTO.

I replied:

Thanks for the reply. But think about this:

Fv – all auto

Select Aperture and dial it and it is the widest setting available on the lens. PERFECT

Select ISO and it is the lowest available, i.e. 100. PERFECT

Select Shutter and move the dial and it is 30 SECONDS. Unusable. When would I ever want that? I might like something from 1/100th to 1/1,000th. But 30 seconds? That is why this makes no sense to me.

 

[ShipleyNW]

It's just that they default the Auto setting to below the lowest value on the scale. For aperture and ISO, the lowest is perfectly fine. Maybe they could add a 'jump to' option to the menus to define which shutter speed to jump to when coming off Auto. They could probably do that with firmware.