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New to Canon R7

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koenkooi Contributing Member • Posts: 920
Re: Thanks for all the comments and advice.
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jeffnles1 wrote:

Thanks all for the comments and advice. I've taken the camera out on 2 field days and am getting more used to it and starting to figure out what is working, what frustrated me and needed to be changed and getting more familiar with where al the buttons are. As configurable as this camera is, I'm quite sure I will go through several iterations before I settle on ones that work for me.

My intent is to ultimately set C1 for wildlife, C2 for Landscapes and general photography, and C3 for Macro. I may change my mind as time goes by but that's the current thinking.

I can also use C1 for people since the subject tracking setting is easy enough to change on the fly from Animals to People.

I have something similar for the C modes on my R5, but I often forget to propagate a change to all the modes. I changed the 'set default AF point' setting so I could move the focus point manually when engaging the spot-AF override, but I didn't update all C settings. That led to wildly different behaviour between the non-C modes and C modes.

It took me way too long to figure out that C modes can't read my mind and I have to manually do updates when I find a new way of doing things

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