Steen
Senior Subscriber Member
(...) how to set up the Fn button + scroll wheel to choose lens. I am curious what other solution you found? (...)
I have just chosen to keep the FUNC. button + Dials assigned to Exposure Bracketing, simply because in that way I'm able to remember where to find the bracketing
In that way I don't need to search. I even don't need to think (which is the best part of it and maybe the real cause why I love to photograph in the first place ).
I stop thinking and enter the see mode.
So I keep the Non-CPU lens selection as a menu choice and then just put it on the top of MY MENU where I add my chosen menu items in order to find them in a hurry (or find them at all).
The high end dSLRs have become such advanced machines with countless features, so the trick is to get to know where everything is.
And, to remember to reset it when you have adjusted something
I still remember when I was trying to shoot Guy leaving the bank wearing some funny presidential mask.
10 seconds later the shutter fired according to the Selftimer Release Mode setting. But never mind, they didn't need any picture.
"Guy has left the building." the policeman calmly reported.
"Again ?" his superior asked rhetorically.
Now I have made it a habit checking the following buttons and settings whenever I grab the camera, in order to check where I left the settings the last time I used it.
So next time I'll be prepared. Maybe I'll become famous, just like the man who shot Liberty Valance
I'm moving from the top left of the camera to the top right and then down to the right on the back, finally ending up in MY MENU checking those settings (especially Non-CPU lens and a9 Exposure delay mode). Same route everytime.
It has become a firm procedure, and it only takes 5 seconds to press the buttons and check the informations in the Control Panel - and another 5 seconds if something needs to be adjusted.
NB: From Nikon D300 !
Top Left: 3 things • • • White Balance + ISO + Release Mode
Top Right: 2 things • • Exposure Mode + Exposure Compensation
On the back: 3 things • • • Metering mode + Focus mode + MY MENU
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