Canon offers locking mode dial upgrade for 5D Mark II, 7D

I hope they offer this in the US too, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

http://www.robgalbrait​h.com …age.asp?cid=7-10057-11067

Me too.

I hope this is (and it bloody should be) worldwide!

Neat... That would be a great feature, but I don't think it would be worth $125 and the time without my camera, at least for me.

Yes, for $125, I will just look at the dial periodically to see where it is sitting. However I bet the dial part is cheap and it wouldn't be hard to do the conversion as a DIY.

Your last shoot was Av. Now you've mounted the flash and have to fiddle with a lock to go manual. No thanks.

TeamSpeed wrote in post #11374940
Yes, for $125, I will just look at the dial periodically to see where it is sitting.

Nice to have that luxury.

I knock this dial around all the time during weddings. I check it frequently, but there's times when you're switching from one camera to the other, knock the dial on your ass in the process and don't realize until you've taken the shot and realize you missed it because it switched modes. I tape the dials down, but it's not perfect.

IMO having a push button lock is the next best thing to having buttons like the 1 series bodies.

nice feature - the mode dial does get bumped too often on the 5D2 but not for $125 lol

timnosenzo wrote in post #11374983
Nice to have that luxury.

I knock this dial around all the time during weddings. I check it frequently, but there's times when you're switching from one camera to the other, knock the dial on your ass in the process and don't realize until you've taken the shot and realize you missed it because it switched modes. I tape the dials down, but it's not perfect.

IMO having a push button lock is the next best thing to having buttons like the 1 series bodies.

See, tape is so much cheaper than $125!

If I were shooting professionally and this was happening to me all the time, $125 is worth it, I could see losing almost that much in one shoot alone due to lost opportunities. I have an idea for a DIY, I will try to work on it tonight. It would be alot cheaper than $125 if it works.

It should have been standard on the camera. I always thought it was unusual not to have a locking mode dial on a camera.

I check the setting everytime I pull the camera out of the bag. Often it is not where it should be but I don't recall it being accidently shifted once working.

This they can do, but make the auto ISO upper limit settable by the user, they can't.

I always seem to notice if my mode dial is not in the position that I want when I look through the viewfinder...

apersson850 wrote in post #11375295
This they can do, but make the auto ISO upper limit settable by the user, they can't.

SERIOUSLY eh?

I just got an email offering this "upgrade" for $110 in Canada. This is a feature I've been asking for. I've missed shots after unknowingly bumping the dial to the wrong setting.

I'm not sure it's worth the price, but I'm going to consider getting it done. Hopefully this will be a feature on future models.

It would be great if they could change the on/off switch to be a 3 way switch, 2 on positions, one that forces the lock button to be used, and one that didn't.

smafty wrote in post #11375377
I just got an email offering this "upgrade" for $110 in Canada.

That's encouraging. My 5D's need to go in for a cleaning soon, hopefully I can get this done all at once.