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I recently bought a Canon EOS 50E/Elan II with a 24-85mm to travel light for a trip I am planning at the end of this year (I usually use a Pentax Spotmatic with 4 prime lenses + Bronica SQ with 2 lenses) and realised that the EOS has a lot of features, which won't be really useful to me. The most useless one is probably the eye controlled autofocus. I find it much easier and faster to focus on the main subject and then re-compose. It's no surprise to me that Canon does not offer this gadget on any of its current dSLR.
So, I am curious to hear from you to know what the most useless feature on your camera is...
DOF preview is useful ... direct print however is the most useless and ridiculous button on any canon pro or semipro camera ;)
I also nominate the 'scenes' options: D70 and D80 both have it, D200 not, also the editing functions in the D80 are wasted on me.
I forgot to mention my camera doesnt have any of that other useless crap...
Canon's eye control focus is a polarizing feature...half the people hate it...and the other half love it. I'm also not surprised that it doesn't show up on the DSLR cameras.
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Many digital cameras have a vast array of features...a lot of which are useless to many of the users. One of the most useless, IMO, on my Canon 20D...is the ability to automatically bracket the white balance. If anyone cared enough about WB to bracket it...they should be shooting in RAW anyway...which renders the bracketing completely useless. On top of that...setting the WB bracketing...involves some sort of graph in the menus. Someone put way too much time into developing that feature...and I don't know of anyone who would use it.
Another one is the direct print feature on high end DSLR cameras. I think the 5D has a button, just for the direct print. Most DSLR users, especially 5D users...will probably want to upload & edit their images first. I can see that there would be times when direct print could be useful...but not very often. This is especially frustrating when users would much prefer a different function for any added buttons...like MLU.
Another vote for pointless scene modes for exposure, and for b&w, sepia or other effects that don't belong in the camera.
On my Canon S3 IS....digital zoom!! I don't get why someone would use digital zoom...you could have better results cropping the picture later!
Well, im not gonna write up an essay but..... I shoot a Nikon N90s and I've NEVER used the Program Settings (macro, Landscape, etc...), Never used the Data cable (i dont knwo what its for, its a film camera!!! you should have NO reason to hook it up to a computer), OH and the Red Eye function for the Flash... I'm always bouncing it anyways.
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Now I DO use the self timer because i have no Cable Release hookup so for Long exposures i like to set the Self timer for 3 seconds and let it do the work itself.
ohter than that i like just about everything else.
The only one that really bothers me is the array of little focusing spots in the viewfinder. I use focus lock and have no use for the little things and find them distracting in the viewfinder. I wish I could turn them off. They may be useful to someone else but not to me.
My cameras have a number of metering modes that are of no interest to me. I don't even know what they do. I use two of the 8 or so modes available on the camera - P and M. I can't imagine why I would need any others.
On my film cameras, any built-in light meter. I use a hand-held meter exclusively.
On my digital, autofocus.
self timer
When the camera is in the bag, the shutter button. ;)
mike
I never use my flash...
The "jump" button
What is that??????
Hmmmm.... hard to say. I've purchased two cameras so far, and each time I took the camera from the box, set it on manual, and went to work.
I THOUGHT I was going to like auto-focus, but have been bit in the ass too many times now. The lenses too are set on manual.
Pete
One of my all-time photography pet-peeves. Favorites.
Why do I want to organize pictures on my camera into ALBUMS and have them stored away neatly ON MY CAMERA? I never have pictures on my camera for a long period of time, much less time to organize them. That and digital zoom as well.
That damned film plane indicator! I can not believe my D200 has it. Matter of fact all my Nikons have it except for the Coolpix 5200. Guess it would come in handy if I was pulling focus with a tape measure.
Have to say that I constantly use the DOF preview button and the self timer. Only shoot in aperture priority or manual, so that leaves out a lot of major functions. Never use sRGB or go below JPEG fine on this end so there is that.
dof focus for me too !! I just shoot and look at the shot, I can tell if I nailed the dof in half a second.
otherwise I spend 10 seconds squinting and cant really notice the difference...
On mine specifically, manual focus. It's operated awkwardly and slowly by holding down the button used to adjust exposure compensation, while pressing the W/T buttons for zoom. It works quickly for zoom, as you don't need to hold that extra button and the speed's fine, but manual focus is basically useless with the setup I have.
Features I never use on my Canon 20D:
Every exposure mode except M, A, S, and P: A-Dep, green square, portrait, landscape, macro, action, night scene, and no-flash. I'd trade them all for a customizable exposure setting or two.
The built in BW and tone modes
Red-eye reduction
The "jump" button
Auto white balance
Auto focus
DOF preview: I can barely see to manual focus, no way I can use DOF preview with that small of a viewfinder.
Jpeg
Pop-up flash
I'm sure there are loads more I don't even know I'm not using.
To me, the most useless feature is the freaking annoying beeping sound of the buttons.
almost all scene modes on point and shoots. especially color accent, swap, underwater and fireworks.
however, i do have to admit they can be amusing during long reports at the library
such as this one...
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The 'Jump' button is for when you are are in the menu of the camera...you can scroll through all of the options...but they are divided into three main colors/section. Pushing the jump button will 'jump' you down to the next section. I never use it either...because it only takes a fraction of a second to scroll down in the menu anyway.
I for one liked Canon's Eye focus control in the Elan IIe. It only had 3 points and it worked seemlessly. I tried it in the EOS 3 and it did not work very well.
The most useless... creative modes... although my current camera doesn't have them.
photo editing function...why on earth would i want to waste all the time editing the photo on my camera when i ultimately need to put it on a computer to do the edit with larger screen....you can aruge that you might want to edit it on the camera and take the memory stick out for a direct print...but how often do you do that....i never would....not with a DSLR body.....ppl with a DSLR would have higher expectation in terms of photo quality
Features I never use on my Canon 20D:
Every exposure mode except M, A, S, and P: A-Dep, green square, portrait, landscape, macro, action, night scene, and no-flash. I'd trade them all for a customizable exposure setting or two.
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That's mine
"Picture Styles" and all the modes except M, AV, and maybe TV.
Yes, digital zoom is #1, and the scene modes are #2. I can see how the scene modes would be useful to some. More like a feature my wife would use when she's borrowing my camera.
DOF preview.
Digital zoom
And any of the modes accept M AV and TV :)
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