Relations between current settings and custom settings

Rightsaidfred wrote:

DF Paul wrote:

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To me, the single hardest thing in making the switch was understanding how the "concept" of the camera, and especially custom settings, had changed. Back in the old days, the custom settings related to how you actually used the camera. For instance, sometimes you shot still lifes, so you had certain focus settings for still lifes. Sometimes you shot sports, so you had completely different focus settings for sports. You could save different "banks" of custom settings for those things and switch between them with one knob, as you probably know.

This is probably the best answer. You are completely right about this. Fujifilm custom presets follow a different philosophy!

A few more thoughts about this. Fujifilm is carelessly loose when using the term "settings." There are the JPEG plus Dynamic Range and D Range Priority settings. Let's call these the "appearance" settings, that are the basis of the C1-C7 Custom Settings. Then there are the remainder of the many, many settings in the various menus. Let's call these the "additional" settings, and call the "appearance" plus the "additional" settings the "complete settings."

Now, if one accepts the offer to SAVE CURRENT SETTINGS while in the EDIT/SAVE CUSTOM SETTINGS option, one might expect that to mean the complete settings. But, no, only the appearance settings will get saved. This could make a big difference if one were saving current settings in C1 so you could use C1 to restore order if you had changed a bunch of "appearance" and "additional" settings. So, how does one make a backup copy of "complete settings?" The Fujifilm Acquire application apparently does this: "All of the camera settings except for DATE/TIME, results of CUSTOM WHITE BALANCE, and customized QUICK menu can be backed up and restored."

While it may seem like there are as many as eight copies of settings on the camera - the one now in operation and the seven in C1-C7 - but in fact there is only the copy that the camera is presently in (the so-called Current Settings). The "appearance" settings in C1-C7 are simply overlays that merge with the "additional" settings upon request.

Am I correct in all of this?