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Custom Camera Settings

Custom Camera Settings

- There are many buttons and knobs on a camera. It seems to be especially true with a digital SLR. That's a good thing in the sense that it means there are lots of features available to hopefully help me make the most of my photographic workflow, but it also means that when I need to configure a specific shot, it might take a few minutes to get things established, but there is a quick shortcut that's available on many cameras and that is the ability to save camera settings. Now I happen to be using a Canon 7D Mark II and it has a few shooting modes that give me this option but other cameras will have a different way of implementing this feature. We can, for example, using the dial up on top, adjust our exposure mode from aperture priority to manual mode, for example, and then I can adjust the aperture or the shutter speed, the ISO setting. I can choose whether or not I need exposure, bracketing. There are a lot of settings that I might want to consider but there are also some similar…

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