From the course: Panasonic Lumix GH5: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Q menu

Q menu

- Of all the custom buttons on the back of your GH5, one of the most useful is the Q menu, or quick menu. While you can program any number of controls or commands directly into a single button push, there's a lot of things that you want at your finger tips but don't necessarily need one button push away. You may not want to have to dig all the way through the menus to get to it, but you do want to have access to it fairly quickly. That's where the quick menu comes in. The quick menu by default is kind of a smart menu if you will, bringing up the commands that you need depending on the mode that you're in. But you can actually completely customize that menu as well. So let's start by looking at it in its default state, and then I'll show you how to customize it. You bring up the Q menu by simply pressing the Q menu button, which is default programmed as Fn2, and that brings up the Q menu, which you can now navigate by simply touching the appropriate field that you want to adjust on the…

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