Scott Mosley

I'm hoping this will push Nikon to announce the D750S with 4k video, touch screen, and a healthier codec at Photokina. I shoot still and video for weddings primarily so I am switching between modes all day long and have a serious love/hate relationship with Nikon. For a while we used 7Ds with 5Dmii then GH4s along side the nikon D800, but since the d750 it was more practical to keep everything the same. While not a complete brand loyalist, I strongly favor stills quality and dynamic range of the nikon over canon which hasn't really come close recent years. I'm really curious to see how the stills quality compares and if the video is as strong as canon's higher end cameras, it might be time to bring my L lenses out of retirement.

"Unfortunately Nikon have chosen to store exposure settings separately for movie mode and stills mode, which is a bit bonkers to be honest."

This. I've shot with my D800 for over 2 years. It still happens that I forget this behaviour when switching between the two modes: "ah yes, that's right, the settings I just punched in were for the other mode only..."

OK, I can see there are scenarios that makes it a feature for certain users - but for my kind of use, I'd like to have only one set of stored manual settings.

If you read my post above you can set up the d750 to have independent on-screen readout for video and stills exposures, even while recording, (with metering)! I really love this feature over my d800

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Unfortunately Nikon have chosen to store exposure settings separately for movie mode and stills mode, which is a bit bonkers to be honest. If you’re mainly shooting video, have the correct exposure set for the scene and want to reel off a shot with the shutter button, it will take the shutter speed, aperture and ISO you last used through the optical viewfinder."

 

You can access still settings right from the movie mode live view (even while recording) by assigning the "view camera shooting info" command to a custom button in the move controls menub(AE-L/AF-L is what I use). You can easily change the settings or even match them, But I have found that I almost never use the exact settings for stills while I am shooting video, which is great because they are independent but can be changed on the same screen. I usually increase the shutter speed and increase iso on stills , and in high speed burst mode i can jump right from the middle of recording to continuous high. Pretty awesome, I too am baffled why nikon did not advertise this camera as the video beast that it is?? maybe just to push more 810s out the door before we caught on :)