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EOS R5: Customize the Rate Button

Started Aug 28, 2020 | Polls thread
PicPocket Veteran Member • Posts: 5,897
Re: I'm one

Tazz93 wrote:

PicPocket wrote:

DemolitionMan14 wrote:

PicPocket wrote:

And I'm curious if someone would vote no for this poll

We actually have 2 "No" votes

I wonder if that is because there was no "I'm indifferent" option. I'll probably remain curious about why anyone is opposed to this

I said no because there is no good reason to waste resources on it. If it could be done without a cost to other more pressing issues, sure... why not... customize your buttons until your heart is content.

Fair enough... nothing is zero cost. even this comment was some effort to type in. But in all fairness, I don't know the cost. I guess they did spend resources making so many buttons customisable. Hopefully, they learned enough to make that a trivial thing by now. Or maybe not... I don't even know the reason why that button isn't customisable while many others are. I guess that was the point of the OP... ask canon, and see how they feel about it. They will be in a better position to weigh the effort

For all I know... it may just be that buttons mappings are just stored in a LUT and they just need to include this one - a minor code change. Or it can be more complicated where the LUT has a fixed size they might have exhausted already. Or something as impossible as this button being wired very differently at hardware level

Only canon may know. I can only say whether I would like it if it can be done

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