Wouldn't It Be Nice If

So much talk about the "large" 2.5 inch LCD on the 30D, when what I really need is to have the firmware re-written so that one of the options is to have the RGB Histogram fill the entire screen instead of 1/4 of it.

It's too damn small crowded in with the image, the date, the time, the shutter speed, the f/stop, the total shot count, the AWB, the metering mode, the mode selection, the file size, and the ISO.

Why didn't they just add some Canon advertising too?

Or at least have an extra ‘click’ to superimpose it over the image..

Hermeto wrote in post #2925292
Or at least have an extra ‘click’ to superimpose it over the image..

Excellent idea. I'd rather have the option of a larger histogram, since chimping the LCD isn't really a dependable manner of determining image quality.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we had focusing points according to the Rule of Thirds?
That's one of the first lessons we learn about composition and yet, they never put focusing points to the right spots!

Hermeto wrote in post #2925532
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had focusing points according to the Rule of Thirds?
That's one of the first lessons we learn about composition and yet, they never put focusing points to the right spots!

Yeah, and then go further by telling you focus/recompose is a bad idea.

I have seen a few screens with etched RoT lines, but not even one with focusing points at their intersections..

Putting rule of third lines on the screen is hardware and shouldn't be too difficult/costly, but enlarging the Histogram should only be a minor re-write (hack) of the firmware.

The 10D firmware was successfully hacked to permit it to do 20D things (can't recall what, but it was discussed on this forum not too long ago).

I want someone to hack the 30D firmware to give us one more option - at present we have three, but the Histogram is too small (damn it).

I looked at several images taken last week - checked the histogram, everything looked OK, but when it came up on the computer screen there were some tiny blown out areas on flower petals. If the histogram would have filled the screen, I would likely have seen the blow-outs.

Canon's wisdom has dictated that the screen with the image that shows blow-outs is 1/4 of the total area available (just like the histogram).

Some days I wish that Nikon would solve their noise problem - then maybe Canon wouldn't be so damned complacent. The re-worked firmware wouldn't have cost them one cent per camera, and the etched lines on the focus screen, maybe 5 cents per camera. The added value would have been huge in comparison.

Programmable focus points? Not much cost either.

Talking strictly about softvare/firmware changes, I would like to see old DEP mode instead of A-DEP that we have now.

I agree with Glenn NK that it would be nice to have a larger histogram.

My old Fuji had the viewfinder with rule of thirds which could be switched on / off - very handy when composing a shot.

John A

while we are on the subject, is there anyway to change iso "on the fly" with the battery grip controls?

let's just build a whole new camera.

ChrisBlaze wrote in post #2926618
let's just build I whole new camera.

im sensing sarcasm here

jjmucker wrote in post #2926648
im sensing sarcasm here

damn jet-lag and bad english

Hermeto wrote in post #2925532
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had focusing points according to the Rule of Thirds?
That's one of the first lessons we learn about composition and yet, they never put focusing points to the right spots!

"The Rule of Thirds"? I'm guessing this is another (and, inaccurate) way to say "The Golden Mean Rule". I don't understand what the advantage of having focus points like mentioned above. I feel I am missing something here, that this 'ol brain is not clicking some way to understand how focal points so arranged would be of help.

jr_senator wrote in post #2926787
"The Rule of Thirds"? I'm guessing this is another (and, inaccurate) way to say "The Golden Mean Rule". I don't understand what the advantage of having focus points like mentioned above. I feel I am missing something here, that this 'ol brain is not clicking some way to understand how focal points so arranged would be of help.

Definition/understandi​ng of those terms, to begin with..

http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/Rule_of_thirds

http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/Golden_ratio

Having focus point at the intersections of thirds would eliminate the need for croping in post production, or focusing/recomposing while composing the shot in viewfinder.

Let me know if you also do not understand focusing/recomposing in photography, I’ll try to explain..