Live view metering

I SUSPECT that might be dangerous territory from Nikon's perspective. If someone entered an AI lens as AI-s, chances are their exposures would be wildly off at least at smaller apertures. The alternatively would be to stop down the lens and meter again as on the FE, etc, but then you don't get the claimed aperture.

"Doctor doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Well don't do it then." Given that we already have to enter aperture and focal length to get the matrix meter to work (presumably) correctly, a check box for AI-S (with a "are you sure?" warning) doesn't seem like the end of the world. It shouldn't actually hurt the camera or lens in any way, it'll just mis-expose if the aperture lever isn't linear. Unless pre-electronic AI-S lenses aren't as linear as they're supposed to be. Hopefully Nikon have now got over the desire to get people to upgrade their lenses? Not that I anticipate this being a priority.

Incidentally, as a side note, I handed my D800 to someone the other day...

Uh-oh. I've handed my camera to several people who claim to understand photography (some of whom I've seen take decent shots) and who claim to understand me when I say "you need to hold down the AF-On button for it to autofocus" and it just doesn't click. I've now learned to put the camera into focus-on-shutter, area AF, usually aperture priority, auto-ISO (although it usually is anyway), and hope that's enough. I also have to adjust the finder diopter, because my eyes are weird, which slows me down further. So I'm usually fiddling for a couple of minutes before I can hand the camera over and start trying to explain where the zoom lever is... :rolleyes:

I might actually find it useful to have a "hand the camera to a novice" mode on the body which I could select a little faster. Not that I've checked what I can do with shooting banks - historically I've only bothered with those for trap focus.

In any case, I've only used "green box" and some of the creative modes a few times just to see what they did(both on my Rebel XS and on my D70). I found it frustrating how LITTLE control I had over the camera-even rolling through shutter speed/aperture combinations is locked out, and you get no choice of focus point(I'm usually a center, lock, recompose guy) or really anything else. About all you can do is change the image quality and set the flash to off, on, or auto.

I own a cheap Panasonic point and shoot, bought for taking to dodgy places. It has over fifty creative modes, but no explicit control of shutter, aperture or ISO. Since a camera is a box with four dials (pick any three) that control exposure, they somehow managed to make it massively more complicated, not least by failing to explain the difference between their two (or possibly three) fireworks modes. I never use it. Given that it takes about ten minutes to explain to someone how shutter speed and aperture affect the photo, I don't really see how this kind of thing helps. But then, I do RTFM.