Canon G9 will not shoot slower than 1" in AV

<p>I have had my G9 for over two years and love most aspects of it. Lately however I have noticed that it will not set a shutter speed longer than 1" in AV mode. I have been through the manual and all the in camera settings and can find nothing that would cause this. At first I thought it was a limitation of RAW which I just started using a month ago but it does it in all JPEG settings also. TV and Manual exposure work fine with no limitations.<br>

Has anyone experienced this? Does my camera need service or is it some obscure setting that I am missing. Thanks for your input.</p>

<p>I might be wrong, but I think that's totally normal. You can only set a longer exposure in manual mode!</p>

<p>Thanks Juergen,<br>

TV mode works fine. I can go to the camera's limit of 15". What bothers me is that I don't recall ever facing this problem before. Perhaps I just never put the camera in that situation?</p>

<p>This is standard behavior on all Canon point and shoot cameras that I've used that have P/Av/Tv/M modes. If you need longer than 1" then you need Tv or M.</p>

 

<p>It is normal operation for the G9. Mine has always behaved that way.</p>

<p>The G10 does the same thing, which is actually one of its greatest shortcomings, I think, in an otherwise incredibly user-friendly camera. It is a minor grief, though, so I never let it bother me much, but it would have been so much more convenient if it also could go all the way down to 15 seconds in Av-mode. There is absolutely no good reason to make 1 second the longest shutter speed in Av-mode (So, Canon, if you read this, give us a firmware update that lets Av-mode go down to 15 seconds, or give us a the option of selecting it ourselves. Please!).</p>