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The Custom Functions and My Menus

Custom Functions let you tailor the behavior of your camera in a variety of different ways, such as the function carried out when the SET button is pressed. If you don’t like the default way the camera carries out a particular task, you may be able to do something about it. You can find the Custom Functions in their own menu, color-coded orange-brown, and visible whenever you are using P, Tv, Av, M, and B exposure modes.

Some Canon EOS cameras (chiefly earlier models and current entry-level cameras) crowded all the Custom Functions on a single screen, with cryptic rows of settings, each with a series of numbers beneath the settings row that represented the current value of that Custom Function. Fortunately, ...

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