On my Canon camera, if you are using one of the Custom Settings, it reverts to the predefined setting if it goes into sleep mode or you turn the camera off. I can sort of understand why Nikon have taken the approach they did but I prefer the Canon approach.
I like Nikon's approach to that situation in that the camera holds the set values. There is a big difference between the camera going to sleep or being turned off and having the ability to select a set of predetermined settings.
How every camera should work:
1. Set the way you want say for
Night Sports2. Save the settings, preferably giving it a unique menu name.
3. You select the menu item
Night Sports and the camera returns to the state when you saved the settings.
4. During shooting you decide to back Auto ISO down 2 stops and lower the minimum shutter speed.
5. The camera is now in a new state and when it goes to sleep or is turned off it should come back on in the same state as sleep or off.
6. But, when you select
Night Sports again, the camera goes back to the original
Night Sports settings you actually saved, not changed during shooting.
7. Of course, you are always able to change the settings of
Night Sports to whatever you prefer.
I don't want a saved
mode where changes to the settings while in that mode become the new settings for the mode, I want a set of
home base states[/b] that I can quickly get back to. But the camera should only change back to the home base state when I tell it, not on it's own because that was the last state I set. If the camera allowed you to set 10 states and give them menu names, then it would require 11 states to be saved. The 10 you set, and the current state of the camera at the time it is turned off or goes to sleep. It would always power on in the last current state, but you could always choose a different state.