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Custom menu on a camera

Custom menu on a camera

- It seems there are an unlimited number of menu options on many cameras these days, multiple categories of menus, and you can scroll around. In many cases, I find that can leave me searching and searching for a particular menu item that I'm looking for. I also find that I tend to use the same general menu items more often than others. In fact, there's some options on the menu that I never take advantage of at all. Well some cameras now offer a great way to streamline your workflow when navigating around the menu, and that is some form of a custom menu setup. So here, for example, I have a custom menu setting, I'll go ahead and navigate to that custom menu, and I already have added the Format Card menu item to my custom menu, because I fairly frequently need to reformat my card in the camera after I've downloaded photos to my computer, for example. In addition, I do tend to use exposure bracketing somewhat frequently, particularly for high dynamic range, or HDR imaging. So, that would…

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