7 Custom Settings Menu

Unlike the Photo Shooting and Video Recording menu options, which you are likely to modify frequently as your picture-taking environment changes, Custom Settings are slightly more stable sets of preferences that let you tailor the behavior of your camera in a variety of different ways for longer-term use.

Some options are minor tweaks useful for specific shooting situations or convenience. Perhaps you’d like to assign a frequently used feature to one of the Fn buttons or turn on the grid display to make it easier to align vertical or horizontal shapes.

Best of all are the settings that improve the way your camera operates. Custom Setting b6, for example, provides a way to fine-tune the exposures your camera calculates ...

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