From the course: Canon 5D Mark III Essential Training
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Clearing all settings - 5D Tutorial
From the course: Canon 5D Mark III Essential Training
Clearing all settings
There are a lot of settings on your camera, and if you've been shooting with it, or just fiddling around with it, there's no telling how it might be configured right now. To make sure that your camera matches mine, we're going to now reset it to the factory defaults. This feature can be a handy thing to do if you ever sell your camera. I suppose you could also do it if you just get the camera so messed up that you can't figure out why it's doing a particular thing, but at that point, I would encourage you to really try to figure out why it's doing what its doing, so that you can understand it better. Think of reset as kind of a nuclear option. Note that when we do this reset, we're not going to end up resetting the clock. The menu item that we want to access is not available in Scene Intelligent Auto mode. So we need to be in Program mode. So I'm going to change the mode now. To make a change to the mode dial, you just press down on this button in the middle of the dial, and then turn…
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Exploring basic camera anatomy5m 28s
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Attaching a lens to your camera4m 3s
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Examining batteries and media cards8m 35s
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Powering up1m 49s
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Exploring the menu system2m 53s
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Clearing all settings2m 5s
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Setting the date and time1m 55s
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Setting the language1m 42s
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Formatting the media card3m 4s
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Holding the camera4m 10s
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