New to Canon R7

MarshallG wrote:

jeffnles1 wrote:

koenkooi wrote:

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

I hear ya. I left all the settings on the mode dials (Tv, Av, M, P, etc.) to their factory default. After I saved to a C1,2,3, etc. I went back and changed the settings back to default on the main mode. That way I should have a baseline to go back to.

One thing I always found frustrating with the Nikon bodies (I had a D500) was there were no "C1, 2, 3, type settings. Nikon has shooting banks but if you make any change at all, then that becomes the setting for that shooting bank. Going to another and then back again does not get you to a baseline. After a year or so with that camera I had it set up for my shooting and need really had to think much about it again and could just focus on taking photographs. This is where I want to get with the R7 and assume I will get there. After all, it is just a camera body. Getting a setting suite that compliments my shooting will take some time but once I figure it out, I'll probably just Mae minor tweaks for the situation

I tried Custom modes several cameras ago. They weren’t for me. If I shot in C1 and changed a setting, as soon as the camera slept and woke up, my change was lost. Maybe that’s changed in newer cameras, but I was never clear about what was saved with the C and what was global, so I just gave up on it.

But I’m like that — I try things, and if they don’t work for me, I move on and try something else.

Trying things and changing what doesn't work and keeping what does is by far the best way to approach a lot of things in life.

Jeff