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Recommended Settings

This chapter is purely optional, especially for those who are new to an advanced Canon at the 6D Mark II’s level, who should skip it entirely for now, and return when they’ve gained some experience with this full-featured camera. This section is for the benefit of those who want to know now some of the most common changes I recommend to the default settings of your 6D Mark II. Canon has excellent reasons for using these settings as a default; I have better reasons for changing them.

Changing Default Settings

Even if this is your first experience with a Canon digital SLR, you can easily make a few changes to the default settings that I’m going to recommend, and then take your time learning why I suggest these changes when ...

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