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Exploring custom controls

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Exploring custom controls

You can customize a lot of the controls on your Mark III, and to see a list of which ones, just go into the menuing system. Go to the second page of the custom function category, and down at the bottom, you'll find Custom Controls. If I come in here, I get this screen, which looks pretty complicated, but it's actually fairly simple. I've got a diagram of my camera, with the current selected control highlighted. This is the list of the controls that I can customize over here. So this first one is the shutter button; I can see that highlighted right there. Let's take a quick look at what the other customizable controls are. There is the AF-ON button, which is right back here, the AE Lock button, which of course, is this one highlighted right here. The depth of field preview button, which is around here on the front. You can see it highlighted right there. Something that you may or may not have; the Lens AF stop button. That's going to be on my lens over here. The lens that I'm using…

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