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Exploring custom modes

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Exploring custom modes

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By now you should be comfortable with the idea that different modes leave different decisions up to the camera, allowing you to take more or less control. You've also seen that your camera has a lot of different features that can be turned on or off within any mode. Now, there might be a combination of features that you regularly switch on and off. For these instances, you might want to create a custom mode, which will allow you to immediately activate specific features. The custom modes on your mode dial are these C1, C2, and C3 modes over here. When I switch to one of those, any settings that I have embedded in that mode automatically take. So by default, these three modes are really just Program mode, they work exactly the way that Program mode does. To get them to do something more useful, I have to configure them. So, let's look at a typical case here. I very often shoot HDR images, High Dynamic Range images, and I need my camera configured a very particular way to do that, so I…

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