Tom Caldwell
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The further I got into the question of box settings the more room I saw for creating monsters and also for simple errors.
The closer I looked the more I found and I know that there are a lot of question marks here but I have added a coloured legend roughly showing:
1) the defaults that I have left alone;
2) Changed setting that I have decided to keep;
3) Changed settings that I have decided to trial; and
4) Settings upon which I have formed no opinion as yet.
I also found that the order of menu item in the shooting menu is not the same order as the listing in the Box editing menu. I have shown listing orders in columns consecutively numbered.
For this purpose the Shooting menu items are listed in the order they appear in the Box Editing menu. Note that there are additional entries in the BEM that are not in the Shooting menu.
Note that when you set 'Switch Shooting Mode' to PASM you get one or more additional entries in context which represent settable start entries in these modes when you exit to PASM from a My mode - ie: Aperture and Shutter Speed or both - quite neat and very useful.
Furthermore you also get a chance to set the start manual focal distance at item 11 of BEM. This is the first focal length when switching to manual focus after exiting to PASM. It seems configurable from within BEM using the up/down arrows but there may be a more direct way of doing this that I have not found. Certainly as you zoom in and out the lcd screen shows focus set so I imagine this might be good enough - there is a noticable change when the camera kicks through to macro-length settings.
I have linked together those settings that are directly dependent upon one another using rectangular symbols.
I have also shown page cross references from the printed manual. Some things are not really explained and I have used my sixth sense.
The closer I looked the more I found and I know that there are a lot of question marks here but I have added a coloured legend roughly showing:
1) the defaults that I have left alone;
2) Changed setting that I have decided to keep;
3) Changed settings that I have decided to trial; and
4) Settings upon which I have formed no opinion as yet.
I also found that the order of menu item in the shooting menu is not the same order as the listing in the Box editing menu. I have shown listing orders in columns consecutively numbered.
For this purpose the Shooting menu items are listed in the order they appear in the Box Editing menu. Note that there are additional entries in the BEM that are not in the Shooting menu.
Note that when you set 'Switch Shooting Mode' to PASM you get one or more additional entries in context which represent settable start entries in these modes when you exit to PASM from a My mode - ie: Aperture and Shutter Speed or both - quite neat and very useful.
Furthermore you also get a chance to set the start manual focal distance at item 11 of BEM. This is the first focal length when switching to manual focus after exiting to PASM. It seems configurable from within BEM using the up/down arrows but there may be a more direct way of doing this that I have not found. Certainly as you zoom in and out the lcd screen shows focus set so I imagine this might be good enough - there is a noticable change when the camera kicks through to macro-length settings.
I have linked together those settings that are directly dependent upon one another using rectangular symbols.
I have also shown page cross references from the printed manual. Some things are not really explained and I have used my sixth sense.
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