Chapter 11

Ten More Customization Options

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Customizing buttons and lens control-ring functions

Bullet Revamping the Quick Control screen

Bullet Creating your own menu and custom folders

Earlier chapters discuss major ways to customize your camera, such as changing the amount of data that appears onscreen and creating your own White Balance setting. This chapter details ten customization options that aren’t as critical but may come in handy on occasion. Because we’re ordered by the High Council on For Dummies Books to keep The Part of Tens chapters short, we’re limited to a quick introduction of these features. For more details, download the camera instruction manual from the Canon R50 support site.

Customizing Button Functions

When the Mode dial is set to P, Tv, Av, M, or certain Movie shooting modes, you have access to the Custom Function menus. If you open Custom Function Menu 2 and choose Customize Buttons, you can set certain camera buttons to perform different operations than they do by default. You can even give some buttons a custom assignment for photo shooting and another for movie recording. However, your customized button works only in the aforementioned shooting ...

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