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R5/6 what have you assigned for the 4th dial? A poll

Started Oct 3, 2020 | Polls thread
arbitrage Contributing Member • Posts: 585
Re: R5/6 what have you assigned for the 4th dial? A poll

I have assigned the Control Ring to EC at times and Direct AF Selection at other times.  But I actually don't use it ever.

1) Main Dial = Shutter Speed....for birds/wildlife I'm always changing this, rarely aperture (I just shoot wide open

2) Quick Control Dial 1 (lower rear wheel): Aperture...more awkward to get to and I rarely change from wide open so leave I leave Aperture there

3) Quick Control Dial 2 (upper rear wheel): ISO....second most common thing I change after SS.

I shoot in M all the time.  Therefore EC is not needed.  I had EC on my Control Ring to play around with Auto ISO.  But I find with WYSIWYG in the EVF that it is just faster for me to move my SS or ISO quickly vs messing around with Auto ISO and EC.

I then had Direct AF Selection on the Control Ring but I find the Control Ring on the 100-500 and the EF adapter to be next to extremely awkward to get to.  The Control Ring needs to be way further out on the lens for larger lenses (like what Canon did for the 600/800 DO lenses).

I currently have SET button to do Direct AF Selection but rarely need that as I have 4 different AF modes already on different Custom Buttons (Auto Face/Tracking on shutter, Zone on AF-ON, Spot on * and Horizontal Zone on the AF Selection button).  But occasionally I want to try one of the other ones or bring one of my back button ones up to the shutter to make it quicker to activate so that is when I use the SET button.

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