I was at Best Buy the other day, and usually when I am there, I stop by the DSLR rack just to look at what's there.
They had the 5DMk2 on display, all locked down obviously. One of the employees came over and asked if I needed help. Hey, he asked, so I said sure, can I look at the 5DMk2 when it has a lens mounted on it? He makes a few calls, gets about 30 screwdrivers out, and 5 minutes later the thing is detatched enough from the security table so that they can mount a lens on it.
A 17-40L was in the lens case nearby, so I said that will do. Really I wanted to test out the handling and experience the full-frame viewfinder, in contrast to the DX viewfinder on my D80. But as a bonus I got to test the feel of the 17-40L as well hehe.
Anyways, not being too familiar with Canons (last time I handled one was a 30D a few years back) I tried to operate some of the basic controls. I saw that there was only one rotary switch on the shooting (right) hand, under your index finger. I asked the BB employee how one changed the aperture and SS while in manual mode with only one rotary switch. He thought maybe it was the button with the "*" on it, but when I held it down and rotated the rotary switch, the aperture did not change. Taking a guess from the way Nikons handle, I tried the circular rotary dial on the back, but that did not change it either.
For the life of us, we could not figure out how to change the aperture setting on the 5DMk2 in full manual mode. Stranger was that the 7D next to the 5DMk2 operated just fine. Hold down the * button, and then the rotary switch controlled aperture. Release the * button, and the switch controlled SS.
I think at one point there were at least 2 BB employees there, both supposedly the "SLR gurus", and one of the "the Canon guy" and neither could get it to work. We looked in the custom menus, to see if it was a setting, but nothing obvious jumped out at us.
I'm genuinely curious now, how do you change the SS and aperture in M mode on the 5DMk2? Is it different than the 7D? Is it a customizable setting, that may have been set differently than the 7D? We also tested the lower end Canons that were there, I think one of them (the 60D) worked by using the * button, the other (T2i?) did not, and behaved as the 5DMk2.
I'm positive that it has to be possible, and relatively easy to do. Changing SS and Aperture in M mode are the two absolutely most important features of the camera (beyond the shutter button), and for any jokes I may make about Canon's ergonomics, I know that it can't be THAT hard to do. It was just us not knowing how to use the camera.
And yes, we did check several times that the camera was indeed on M and not on Tv or Av
Ruahrc
They had the 5DMk2 on display, all locked down obviously. One of the employees came over and asked if I needed help. Hey, he asked, so I said sure, can I look at the 5DMk2 when it has a lens mounted on it? He makes a few calls, gets about 30 screwdrivers out, and 5 minutes later the thing is detatched enough from the security table so that they can mount a lens on it.
A 17-40L was in the lens case nearby, so I said that will do. Really I wanted to test out the handling and experience the full-frame viewfinder, in contrast to the DX viewfinder on my D80. But as a bonus I got to test the feel of the 17-40L as well hehe.
Anyways, not being too familiar with Canons (last time I handled one was a 30D a few years back) I tried to operate some of the basic controls. I saw that there was only one rotary switch on the shooting (right) hand, under your index finger. I asked the BB employee how one changed the aperture and SS while in manual mode with only one rotary switch. He thought maybe it was the button with the "*" on it, but when I held it down and rotated the rotary switch, the aperture did not change. Taking a guess from the way Nikons handle, I tried the circular rotary dial on the back, but that did not change it either.
For the life of us, we could not figure out how to change the aperture setting on the 5DMk2 in full manual mode. Stranger was that the 7D next to the 5DMk2 operated just fine. Hold down the * button, and then the rotary switch controlled aperture. Release the * button, and the switch controlled SS.
I think at one point there were at least 2 BB employees there, both supposedly the "SLR gurus", and one of the "the Canon guy" and neither could get it to work. We looked in the custom menus, to see if it was a setting, but nothing obvious jumped out at us.
I'm genuinely curious now, how do you change the SS and aperture in M mode on the 5DMk2? Is it different than the 7D? Is it a customizable setting, that may have been set differently than the 7D? We also tested the lower end Canons that were there, I think one of them (the 60D) worked by using the * button, the other (T2i?) did not, and behaved as the 5DMk2.
I'm positive that it has to be possible, and relatively easy to do. Changing SS and Aperture in M mode are the two absolutely most important features of the camera (beyond the shutter button), and for any jokes I may make about Canon's ergonomics, I know that it can't be THAT hard to do. It was just us not knowing how to use the camera.
And yes, we did check several times that the camera was indeed on M and not on Tv or Av
Ruahrc
