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Easing Lens Setting Routines for Alternating Manual and AF Lenses

Started Sep 15, 2014 | Discussions thread
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PeterFXCassidy Contributing Member • Posts: 792
Easing Lens Setting Routines for Alternating Manual and AF Lenses

Travel requirements and habit limits me to a couple of lenses, always primes. When I was running S5 Pro, it was the Zeiss 21 and the Nikon 85mm which I ran manual exposure and focus, except for low-light situations with the 85mm. Swapping back and forth was simple to the extent that my paws would do it all on autopilot.

Enter the X bodies, E1 <prr> and M1 <prrprr> and suddenly I've got to contend with all the Lens settings for Shoot Without Lens and Focus Mode and Set Pizza Oven on High on and on. I have it down to a routine, but it's not as easily reducible to reflexive sequence as it was with S5 Pro.

Is there any facility on either of these bodies to automate the establishment of conventionalized settings that I could switch back and forth between. As is my habit, I'm principally running the 27mm AF and the Rokinon 85mm these days.

Peter

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Fujifilm FinePix E900 Zoom Olympus TG-810 Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro Fujifilm X-E1 Fujifilm X-M1 +11 more
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