Does Canon have TAV shooting mode?

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  1. KiloHotelphoto

    KiloHotelphoto Active Member Site Supporter

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    I am thinking of switching my long lens shooting from Pentax to Canon and have noticed on the control knob on Canon bodies they don't have a TAV mode.

    This is how I do all my shooting now and was wondering if Canon has that capability? For Pentax TAV is I set the shutter and aperture and the camera takes care of the ISO. Maybe Canon calls it something else but I hope I will be able to shoot the same way.
     

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    On my 7D, you can set the mode to manual, and have your ISO setting set to "Auto". That should achieve what you're looking to do.
     
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    rayallen Well-Known Member Site Supporter

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    Yes, that is the Canon equivalent of TAV. On Pentax you can't set ISO to Auto when in Manual mode.
     
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    Thanks, I was looking around last night and found on the Pentax forum a thread about it also. Someone pointed out that Canon bodies don't have two control wheels on them and that's probably why they don't have a TAV mode, I had never noticed that before.

    I have only used Pentax DSLRs so I just thought they all had that. Hopefully within the week I will finally decide what body I want, Canon just has so many to choose from, and I'll order it and I'm sure I'll be posting more questions as I learn a new system.
     
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    canon T6s, 80D, 7D all have 2 control wheels.
     

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