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Customizing your camera menus

Customizing your camera menus

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Customizing your camera menus

- If you find the menus a bit cluttered, don't worry, you can set up your own menu system and get rid of some of the options you really don't care about. Now not every camera has this, but you may have a My Menu option that allows you to assign your favorite settings for quick access. Just press the menu button and navigate to the last page. It will typically have a star icon. Now you'll see a couple of options. Let's delete all My Menu tabs and start over. Now what I can do is choose to add a menu tab and Menu tab one is created and let's configure it. Now I can choose items to add. For example, maybe I use image quality a lot and I can scroll through this list and I like auto lighting optimizer and custom white balance. There we go. We'll choose highlight tone priority and whether or not I want to use HDR mode or you see that those are all added. But as you keep going, eventually, the page will fill up. Let's turn on touch shutter and take a look at where we're at. Press the menu…

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