I don't use the dial function menu as I have customized the button for another purpose. My only gripe with the R5II so far is that I wish there was an extra customizable button or two. I'm not complaining, however. There is much to appreciate about this camera.
Not having enough buttons has been a running complaint of mine since getting the original R5. I'd really like Canon to bring the dual front button design from the R1/R3 down to the R5.
@@PointsInFocus For my use I was ok with the R5 but taking advantage of the new functions with an unchanged button configuration is a challenge. Things like set and recall pre-focus, toggling eye control and pre-focus along with all my previous functions requires more buttons than I have. What I have resorted to is using the save/load settings to card function. For example, I have one set of configurations saved that is specific to macro and another for BIF, etc. I load the setting that I need for the day. It is not as eloquent as having more buttons, but it works. While I have your attention thank you - as always - for the videos. Your R5 was invaluable, and I expect the R5II will be as well.
If you haven't, you might want look at the custom user modes. They're way faster than saving and loading settings to the card, and save/recalls most everything that you can to the card, and you can switch between then with either a button press or by hitting mode and twirling a dial.
@@PointsInFocus Thanks for the reply. I do use the custom functions but run into limitations there as well. For example, when I do macro, I like to have 2 custom positions to switch between electronic and mechanical shutter (when I need a faster synch speed). When birding or doing general wildlife, I like to have 2 custom positions to toggle the pre-capture which is far less cumbersome than the menus IMO. Basically, I have more need for custom positions than available slots. The save/load settings is a good option and doesn’t add much overhead. I just load what I need for a particular outing. I could of course forego this with a couple of extra buttons, but I guess expecting everything is unreasonable.
Yea, in that case, the only option is have saved settings on the card and switch out whole configurations the way you're doing it. In your case, I bet you could use some more custom modes too. I've increasingly been thinking that if we can't have more buttons (after all that costs money) it would be nice to have a modifier/shift function for the buttons. That is, a button I could program to change all the other buttons (and dials too maybe) to do something else while it's pressed. But alas, I'm not in any position to influence Canon's developers in any way. Otherwise, we'd have had proper in camera frame averaging 8 years ago on the 5D-4.
Great topic to cover. Thank you!
This is so good!
Hi Jason.
A hard topic well explained! Thank You! I certainly agree considering the amount of functions to choosee from.
Jan, DK
Set MFN to Q menu
In my R3 you can now customise the Q menu and there are loads more options like in camera crop for video and other cool stuff
I don't use the dial function menu as I have customized the button for another purpose. My only gripe with the R5II so far is that I wish there was an extra customizable button or two. I'm not complaining, however. There is much to appreciate about this camera.
Not having enough buttons has been a running complaint of mine since getting the original R5. I'd really like Canon to bring the dual front button design from the R1/R3 down to the R5.
@@PointsInFocus For my use I was ok with the R5 but taking advantage of the new functions with an unchanged button configuration is a challenge. Things like set and recall pre-focus, toggling eye control and pre-focus along with all my previous functions requires more buttons than I have. What I have resorted to is using the save/load settings to card function. For example, I have one set of configurations saved that is specific to macro and another for BIF, etc. I load the setting that I need for the day. It is not as eloquent as having more buttons, but it works. While I have your attention thank you - as always - for the videos. Your R5 was invaluable, and I expect the R5II will be as well.
If you haven't, you might want look at the custom user modes. They're way faster than saving and loading settings to the card, and save/recalls most everything that you can to the card, and you can switch between then with either a button press or by hitting mode and twirling a dial.
@@PointsInFocus Thanks for the reply. I do use the custom functions but run into limitations there as well. For example, when I do macro, I like to have 2 custom positions to switch between electronic and mechanical shutter (when I need a faster synch speed). When birding or doing general wildlife, I like to have 2 custom positions to toggle the pre-capture which is far less cumbersome than the menus IMO. Basically, I have more need for custom positions than available slots. The save/load settings is a good option and doesn’t add much overhead. I just load what I need for a particular outing. I could of course forego this with a couple of extra buttons, but I guess expecting everything is unreasonable.
Yea, in that case, the only option is have saved settings on the card and switch out whole configurations the way you're doing it. In your case, I bet you could use some more custom modes too.
I've increasingly been thinking that if we can't have more buttons (after all that costs money) it would be nice to have a modifier/shift function for the buttons. That is, a button I could program to change all the other buttons (and dials too maybe) to do something else while it's pressed.
But alas, I'm not in any position to influence Canon's developers in any way. Otherwise, we'd have had proper in camera frame averaging 8 years ago on the 5D-4.