Nikon U1, U2, U3, Best set up. Nikon Z6, Z6II, Z7, Z7II, Z5, Z50. Best custom User settings options
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- Hey Everyone
In this video I talk you through my user settings and how I have U1, U2 and U3 set up for different types of photography.
We cover all the possible options that can be assigned in U1, U2 and U3. including shutter speed, aperture, ISO, Focus and Custom buttons.
Chapters / Time stamps
00:00 Introduction
02:41 U1 Landscape Tripod based long exposure photography.
06:52 U2 Handheld Wildlife / Sports Photography
11:39 U3 Portrait with off camera Flash Photography.
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If you have any questions about your user settings Let me know in the comments below !
As always thank you for watching !
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Hey Everyone !
As mentioned in the video, User modes are a personal camera set up, so hopefully this video gives you some ideas about how you can customise your user modes and what settings will be most useful to you.
I hope you find this video useful and it helps you set up your cameras better for all the types of photography you shoot.
have questions about your user modes set ups let me know in the comments below
as always thank you so much for watching !
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Thanks Ricci, this is the best explanation I have come across for the user settings feature. Clear explanations and helpful screen demonstrations.
I admire your ability to explain a complex subject in such a lucid manner . I am always watching your videos for reference as I am completely self taught.
Thank you, Ricci. I've been lazy about using those modes, because I mostly shoot between wildlife and landscapes, and can quickly change between those. But, I think it's time to start taking advantage of these, and your input is welcome! Thanks for all the details!
You are a super good teacher! So helpful, easy to understand. I came here after watching the Complete Autofocus Guide, and subscribed. Your explanations are terrific.
Another very informative video. As an extensive user of the U settings I just wished it was possible to title each individual user setting on the menu page as I often forget what I’ve set to which. It would be nice as with your copyright text to be able to give U1 etc a title on the menu page so that when I select U1 it would tell me what it is. Just a thought which for me would be exceptionally useful.
Thanks Ricci. This is my first time watching your videos and this subject is what I wanted. Your instructions were right on point. Now I know how to fully use my U1,U2,U3 modules on my z7ii...
Customize option of the Z6ii are great!
These type of setup are very useful especially for video!
Getting a Z7ii this week. This was really helpful. Thanks!
Thank you for this video! I haven't set up my U-settings since I bought the camera a year ago, this tutorial motivates me. If you have more tips & tricks pls share with us.
Awesome tutorial! As always, your insite to the Z community is spot on and second to no one!!!
I appreciate that!
Hello Ricci, What a very good explanation of using User setting. Yes your right these will change for every photographer. Myself I have a Z7ii and use U1 for studio, U2 for landscapes and U3 for when I am using my 500mm PF as I think that lens it help having its own base settings. Thank you. Keep well, keep safe and be happy.
Thank you for sharing knowledge on how to assign presets for shooting modes.
Great tips & video. Thanks.
Great video. Your setup is quite similar to my own.
I generally use U1 for shooting static subjects with a tripod, U2 for fast action high speed handheld, and U3 for low light handheld shooting.
My physical button functions are kept the same across the board, but I do make a lot of changes to the "i" menu.
Thanks for the solution to have Release Modes saved in user settings. was very frustrating not being able to save at all so this was a good work around for action.
Hi, thank you for the video! There are a couple of issues I’ve had with the U saves. The first is that the mode dial setting is common when you switch the video switch e.g. you can’t set the Photo mode to Aperture Priority on U1 and then save Manual on the Video switch for U1. The second relates to how Nikon set the minimum shutter speed for video in either A mode or S mode: it drops to 1/25 instead of a more sensible 1/50. I’ve ended up with three U settings as follows: U1 (Family Shots) Aperture Priority (wide open) Auto ISO with 1/200 min shutter and C-AF auto area AF with tracking on Fn1; U2 (Family scenic) Aperture Priority (f/8) Auto ISO with 1/50 min shutter and S-AF with small focus point; U3 Manual for photo and video.
Very useful tips. So a total of six possible User presets. 3 still, 3 video. Nice!
No, it doesn't save differenet video settings under video. It's always the same as in photo mode.
Great video, waiting for your video setup.
Good video as always. I have a user menu set up for black and white photography with aid lenses. Using focus peaking zoom in focus etc and black and white selected in camera as it helps to view things in monochrome. I usually shoot sport with my other setting so quite different set up. I’m going to look at using the the third user menu for some minor adjustments to my sport set up as that may be quicker than adjusting my base settings.
Another great video and beautiful portrait shots. I would love to see a video on the types of speed lights you use and your process. Cheers!
Duuude!!! Very helpful - thank you!
Thanks a lot great to hear !!
I have Z6ii thank you for this amazing Information
Thank you for watching
Good choices. Very similar to my setup posted on DPReview forums. Also M can be considered U4 except settings save on power down.
Well this is a game changer. I shoot professionally (raw+jpg) and for myself (jpg). Now i don’t need to go into the menu every time!
I have my modes set up for different video frame rates. So I can quickly go from 120fps to 60 or 24. Works like a charm!!!
Thanks Ricci this was a really useful video (and timely because I was literally starting to look for info on the U buttons on the z7II as I felt certain this would help my workflow when shifting between different types of shooting
A couple of really dummy questions if you don't mind
1 - If I understand from the video correctly you put the camera into MANUAL mode, dial in all the various settings as you described and then SAVE to the U buttons?
2 - When in-field simply switch to those modes to get the camera into the set of settings you want for a scenario e.g. landscape, wildlife, portraiture etc?
3 - When in a U mode you can adjust the settings e.g increase the shutter speed, change the focus mode etc but they will only remain changed in that mode until you shut off the camera (which then kinda acts as a reset button) with the camera returning to the dialled in settings you chose for that U mode when turned back on?
4 - If I understood you correctly you can essentially have 6 sets of settings dialled in (3 stills and 3 video)?
Thanks for such helpful content!
Great video! I hope you still plan to make a video about your video settings as well.
I’m trying to learn astrophotography, I’d like to set up U2 on my Z7 with my 20mm 1.8 for shooting the Milky Way (on tripod). U3, same use but with star tracker... U1 is landscape, so you covered that.
You could use M mode for astro. Astro has some changes like longer base shutter speed and larger aperture but otherwise is nearly identical to landscape so I don't dedicate a U mode to it.
My user mode, is that I setup U1, U2 and U3 and then proceed to forget to use them ....
Haha sometimes this happens ! I appreciate it is easier to shoot in just manual some times
same here - except Iknow my U1 is 200th sec for flash and all manual for flash.
I honestly can't remember now what else I set. 😁
Great video, as always. Thank you. You said that I can have 3 user modes for stills and 3 user modes for video. Well, my experience is different. On my Z50 when I set stills to aperture priority, save it to U1, switch to video set it to manual and save it to U1, and then switch back to U1 stills the camera is then in manual mode, not aperture priority as I set and saved before. The same happens with other settings like WB. So, the stills and video customization are together. They are not separated. In the end I have to use stills U1 for stills and video U2 for video, so that they don't overwrite each other. That is why I don't bother with user mode in video.
I'm experiencing the same and I really don't like it. There's no point in video/lever then if you can't set different settings for video and stills. I hoped they will change it with an update but nothing.
Ricci great video as usual! When you do the video for "video" U1, U2, and U3 settings can you cover shooting video in camera and then also outputting to a Ninja V with ProRes Raw. Seems some of the main settings do not carry over. Looking for quickest way to go back and forth. Thanks
Thank you Ricci! This is really helpful. At 53 sec in this video you talk about a second video for the users mode for video. Is this already available as I can’t find it. Thanks
very nice tuto ! looking forward for video settings and how to toggle fluently between photo and video to get the instant but also how to make video with z6ii because 1/50sec rule for 25fps is always clipping my highlights and dont know if i need to buy a ND filter or dare to change the 1/50sec 180 degrees rule.
I wondered about the function buttons and whether you could change them for the u modes. I don't need spot metering for astrophotography but I do for portraits. I rarely need it for landscape. I'd rather have a button set up for bracketing when shooting landscape.
Very informative, thank you! Great to hear you can have different function button settings for u1, u2 and u3! I do have a question: when you change from lets say U1 to A mode, what settings will it use? For example what will be the mapping of the function buttons? Will these be copied from your last U setting e.g. U1? Thx in advance
Very timely for me. Have watched it twice now. May need more views. Have you ever seen a table of what is saved and what is not? It was interesting to see that the continuous low settings were saved but not the Ch ones. I was wondering if the limit AF Mode selections can be saved. I could do the experiment, but others might like to see the answer from you, with a comment on usefulness.
1 is foe non autofocus lenses. 2 is for panoramas. 3 is for back button focus- focus and recompose.. Landscapes, portraits, close up is generally what I do.
Thank you for your User tutorial. It made me revisit my settings and issues from a year ago. Noted below..maybe; do I properly recall that the User Settings are not saved to the .bin file for the Camera Settings? I think this was the case when I had Nikon do a service on my Z6 and the camera was reset to factory settings. When I loaded my .bin file; it turned out the User settings were not included. If this is the case, is there a workaround, other than re-installing/setting all User settings? Thanks again for your great videos.
I was trying to find your video that is mentioned on video user settings
nice tips,
for your videos could you put your auto focus on off and fix the focus, because during the whole video I have my eye which is troubled by the change of focus of your camera (this can be seen behind with the blur from behind plan) ^^
I like the L bracket on your camera
Thank you for an interesting talk Ricci. Is possible to get Nikon to save release mode to the user modes and also can they also save U1, U2 & U3 with other setting when saving to a card?
Hello Ricci, thanks for your good contents ! since the update eye tracking on the Z6II, do you think it has been improved the tracking on the Z6 's updates , do you recommend to buy a second hand Z6 ?
Thank you! Is there any way to label the user modes in camera for what you have customized them for?
Hey Ricci. Awesome video as always. I have my z6ii setup in a similar fashion but I was wondering one thing - is there any way to load up your setting from a User setting into the Manual one? I ask because I shoot astro and have U1 setup for this with dedicated settings. During a shoot, I'll start at U1 but slowly tweak these settings through the night until I get to a bunch of settings that aren't much like the originals! Sometimes I then power the camera off and its lost all my revised settings, hence why I'd like to load them into M mode. Hope thats an ok explanation!
I use u2 for street photography when I'm finding streets that have no names 😉
Ha I see what you did there. Have a Beautiful Day.
@@michaelarter4795 😉🤣👍
Hi Ricci .. just acquired a Z6ii and have the same priority needs (Landscape, Sport, Portrait) and your video is most helpful. Thank you. Just a thought that crossed my mind. Do any systems allow for setup settings to be uploaded to a camera? It is a lazy option, but I'm just curious. Also, if I were to emulate your setup, should I do a factory reset before commencing?
Great! Please, can you tell me if it's possible?:
To save in U1mode the shutter button function as focus + shutter, and save in U2 mode the shutter button function as only shutter and get focus only with AF-ON button? Thanks a lot!
hi sir can you please guide how can i do setting on my z6ii for selective colors?
thanks for the video. Can I save shutter release to the U buttons? I am struggling to do so. Each button seems to default to the last setting I used
Very useful info Ricci. So the U1, U2, and U3 can be used in both photo and video modes right? I presume you have to flick the photo/video switch on the top right of the EVF to indicate what situation you are shooting in, then go into Menu and Save settings as you pointed out? Are there any settings that don't carry over/save in video mode? It is bizarre that you can't assign the Release Mode to CH though. I wish Nikon had a dedicated Custom Video Icon on the Mode Dial itself so you could simply flick it round to that and know that any video settings are saved like on other cameras such as most Panasonic, Fuji X-S10, Olympus, or Sony which also has the S&Q Mode too. So much more logical to the way I shoot anyway!
I don't understand why Nikon excludes release mode from being stored in the user settings. To me it is an important setting that should be stored as well especially when switching between landscape and sports/kids settings frequently. Contractionary to your overlaid text in the video you can store FX/DX mode in user settings ... at least with latest firmware.
Hi, coming back to that tuto. you mentioned we can have different U1-U3 for video than for photography. How can we do that ? my U1-U3 are shared between two modes.
I need help for eye detection uner V1.3 (i will update V1.4 soon but want to understand V1.3 first). I am using Z6ii+Z24-70F/2.8 with V1.3, af-c, back button focus (af-on enabled) auto-area focus with people detection and impossible to have these yellow boxes, always erratic red squares as if i was in auto area. Any idea which menu, parameter would be conflicting (a1, a2, a6,...) with this mode ?
Hi Ricci, I’ve only just found your video and found it really clear and comprehensive. Thanks so much for sharing. Just one question please, if you still answer questions so late. Do I have to set the User selection dial to the the appropriate number (1, 2 or 3) BEFORE saving the required settings or does’t it matter? Many thanks. Subbed.
No you don't need that. After you setup the Shooting Mode the menu and the buttons as you like then go to "Setup menu"/"User Settings" and save the setting in any of your User number!...
If people haven't looked into the User (U) modes on their Z (or DSLR) they really should.... I didn't really use them on my DSLR but am sort of kicking myself now that I use them on the Z cameras... why didn't I do this earlier? I basically have three different User modes set up for the three types of photography I do most of the time (Landscape, Portrait/Model, and the Travel/Street). So for example, for U1 (Landscape) I'll have the camera set to f/11, ISO 64 (on my Z7's) and shutter speed of around 1/80s (basically it's the Sunny 16 rule adjusted for f/11) with IBIS turned off (as I'm usually on a tripod) and matrix metering, etc. Then for portraiture (U2) I usually do my basic go-to default for portraits : ISO 100, 1/125s, f/5.6, and then for mode 3 (U3) for travel and street/general photography, I usually will turn on wide-area single point AF, Auto ISO between 100-1600 and f/5.6 in most cases (I might reset this to use Aperture mode with auto ISO turned on as I find myself wanting to change mostly aperture when shooting on vacation/travel or doing street. I'm not so concerned about ISO as long as it's reasonable so I will let the camera decide within a certain range).
Of course these are my settings but they usually get me to where I want to be quickly and provide me with a starting point for each type of photography so I don't have to go change a bunch of settings when I want to switch modes--these let me minimize the amount of adjustments I need to make when doing various types of photography....
NOTE: One thing I will note (that I don't think is covered well in the manuals) is that it seems the Z cameras will "remember" what mode (P, S, A, M) you used when saving the User mode, so if you make your settings in Aperture Priority and then save the User mode, it will use Aperture priority mode. Same for if you set them in Manual mode or Shutter priority . I have found it (personally) easier to just set everything up in Manual mode and store the User modes... that way I can change things like aperture and shutter speed independent of eachother (and not have to use exposure compensation as much) since it's not locked into Program, Aperture or Shutter priority mode for that User setting. Just something to be aware of as some people (on forums) have done this and don't know why the camera is stuck in Aperture priority mode, for example. I mean set the mode if you want to if you find yourself using Aperture or Shutter priority a lot, but just realize the camera does remember the shooting mode when you save your User modes.
Hello Ricci, thanks for this wonderful video. However I was not able to set what I wanted on my Z6 2....on C1 i wish to set SINGLE EXPOSURE and on C2 I wish to set 5 exposure AUTO BRACKETING....Z6 2 doesn't allow this....do you know any work around? Thanks in advance 🙂
Hi Ricci and thanks.
Some Z7(I) kamera settings with the latest software are NOT saved by U1, U2 or U3.
I have been trying to program a custom setting for BIF including a handful of variables. However, ONLY some of them are remembered and recalled by the custom setting requiring additional manual changes before and after using the custom setting. Some of the modes: Release mode, AF area mode, Choose image area and Focus mode are NOT remembered by the custom settings.
Please tell us which camera variables that are supposed to be programmable and remembered by custom settings and which ones are not.
Hey Ricci, thanks for the video! Im having an issue with my user settings. Mostly im using video, but when I try to save U setting to 4k30 and an auto area AF mode, it will only save briefly. after a couple changes of the mode selector or a longer power off it resets.... Any ideas?
How do you even get that setting frame, first shown, on the Z6?
I frequently used Ux on my D7200, one for mingle with flashlight, one for outdoor in sunshine and one for macro. On this camera I could do changes which remained even if the camera was shut off, as long as I didn't change to another Dial setting
Now on my Z6 I can select a U-setting, if I do some minor changes these will disappear when the camera is shut off and everything returns to saved setting. As often when taking pictures on partys, I like to switch the camera off, when there are nothing to photograph, and all my settings for that evening are gone. I have to save every change I do, and I don't like that. Why cannot Z-cameras remember small changes in settings when the camera is shut off, as long as I do not touch the dial mode selector, as in D7200?
Are my U settings saved when I do a backup of my settings?
Since there are a total of some 250 settings (just for picture!) I have done a spreadsheet to keep track of what settings I have. It would have been nice to export the settings to a file which I could import in a spreadsheet.
Hi Ricci, I am very surprised, that the release mode is not stored to the user settings!
Do you know the reason?
I think, that's a easy software change and it will work.
For me it may very helpful, if the release mode will be stored too.
Will you be doing a video for video settings as mentioned in this video.
Yep just a lot of other videos I’m currently working on
Is there a way to take the settings from a U bank and apply them to current mode, like if I changed everything in for bracketed HDR, saved it as U2, but my regular portrait settings are in U1, can I go to M and somehow grab the settings from U1 or U2?
Do you also disable optical VR in your U1 long exposure landscape mode?
Hi Ricci, thanks for the video. Great summary of what is possible and useful! I use U1 for bracketed shots and U2 for wildlife on a Z50. What I experience sometimes is that when I switch back from U1 to general M, I forget that the bracketing will stay. I have more than once looked at a second shot in M mode and wondered why the settings were off. Is there any way I can avoid this? A "general reset" as it were?
That’s strange I can’t get that to replicate in my Z50 when I turn bracketing on in u1 it turns off when I go to M mode. A work around could be adding bracketing to the i menu so when it dosnt turn off you can quickly access it in the i menu
@@RicciTalks The answer is to return to the PHOTO SETTINGS MENU and in the Auto Bracketing section, reduce the number of shots to 0F. Bizzarly, this switches off the bracketing but it is still retained if you have set it up in the U1 or whatever bank of have set it!!
Hi Ricci, Thank you for your always interesting videos. This one got me thinking. I'm upgrading Z7 to Z7ii. Can I copy the U1,2,3 and button/lens settings from one camera to the other ?
did u ever figure this out?
@@aaranu12 I copied the Z7 settings and pasted into the Zii... and it worked :)
Did you end up doing a U1-3 video for video settings?
In Nikon Z6ii when I save any of the shutter "Release Mode" options into the U1, U2 or U3 dial, it doesn't stay as saved. That is terrible !
I use my U1 for high-speed shooting, but when I recall the U1 mode back, for example the "Continuous H" option no longer exists, then I always have to remember to put that option back manually.
Hi. U1 photo will not influence U1 video or visa versa, hey. So on my Z 50 I can have 4 separate U-settings, but just 2 for video and 2 photo. having an issue with that now since i did a update. thanks for your fantastic videos.
hi hope well im currently using z7 with 24-200 but into wildlife and macro not ptro but an enthusiast wildlife photographer so would be great if cpuld recommend any lenses if i could afford it id get the 500 f5.6 but not in budget considerig lookig at the 300mm with 1.4x converter but also looking for a macro lens too would consider 105mc but whats your opinion on 50mm 2.8 can u help and also how does subject tracking work on z7 as not used it before
After setting up a bank, such as U1, how do you get the camera to go back to the original settings? I have set up U1 for HDR with bracketing but when I move off U1 it is still present in my settings. I only want bracketing in the U1 bank.
This video is older but with FW1.40 coming out tomorrow, maybe Nikon can consider it/explain why not for 1.41. Why isn't drive mode saved as part of user settings? It makes no sense to me, given file type can be different and is one of ghe parameters stored.
Ricci, great video. What speed light and triggers do you use for the Z6II/Z7II? Apparently, my pocket wizard triggers don't work with my Z6II due to lack of firmware in pocket wizards. Thanks.
I use Nikon radio triggers
Wr-11
i have stopped working with pocket wizard with d750. obsolete hardware for hss... i have switched to godox V1N and xproN, later ad200pro and ad400pro. cheap and nice. just updated for z6ii their firmwares. ttl didn't work.
@@marclabro oh, that’s great to know. I think I should be switching to Godox.
Hey Ricci, thanks for the video! I wonder, if it's possible to change the i-menu for each U-mode? 🤔
It is u see my i menu changes when I move between u1 u2 u3 in the video
@@RicciTalks Yes, I saw the changes in the items of the i-menu, but I meant the items themself!? 🤔
Basically what you change in the Controls: f1 Customize i-menu from the Custom setting menu?
E.g. I want flash mode in my i-menu for U3 (portraits), but silent photography in the same slot instead for u1 (wildlife). Sorry for the confusion!
No worries
all you would do is customise the i menu with the options you want so add in flash mode ect then save that to u3 along with all the other u3 settings
Then you would customise the i menu again for the u2 u1 settings
What ever the i menu is set to will be saved when u choose save to u1 u2 or u3
@@RicciTalks Thank you so much! 🙏😇
I'm using z5 but my shutter speed become so slow whenever I fit in with godox x2t trigger. kindly help
Question, did any of the firmware updates, carryover the continuous high, continuous low, setting to the user modes?
No….
Could you use continues high in both U1 & U2 but then have Exposure delay mode in U1?
Yes u can do that
Do you use the Extended Menu’s also if the Z series camera haves them like the D810?
It’s you mean extended menu banks then no the Z do no have menu banks they have u 1 u2 u3 instead
Does the Z9 have user modes? I know it has memory banks (which I am used to with my D810), but I'd much rather have user modes.
If I set the user modes, what happens to the global settings I have used before?
I just can't use the Ux modes on my Z7 for one major reason. They reset to the saved settings if the cam turns off, which is just too much of a pain. I wish they worked more like other Nikon cams and retained settings until you switched to a different mode. I like that you can save settings to U1 for example, but I may want to tweak one item for a certain situation. That gets reset to the U1 mode settings if the cam turns off, and I always forget to set it back. It's uncommon for me to need those exact settings without any change for a given situation. So, those modes are not of much value to me.
What is a zed
I would love to use these modes but one thing really puts me off: Why isn't there an option for shutter speed and/or aperture to use "the last used" one? Why do I have to dial this in? My way of shooting lets me turn the camera off and on regularly. So if my U1-U3 setting is a bit off from what the current situation needs and I manually adjust this, I have to do this again and again whenever I switch off the camera while in U1-U3 mode - in M, A or S mode these settings are not touched when turning the camera off and on. In U-mode this drives me crazy - and stopped me from using them. And the obvious solution would be so easy: Dial in a fixed shutter speed if you want to and a "remember last state" option if you what to have your settings without a fixed default. Or does anyone know a way to work around that (meaning: having my preferences in U1-U3 modes setup from M mode but exclude shutter speed from that)?
Same here with white balance 😬
Good afternoon.. are you going to make video of the new firmware update that's coming out on the 26th of April. Thank you
yes!
its always annoyed me that U1.3 don't get saved with Saved Settings, and for the Z6/7 nor do the MyMenu items though this last was fixed in the Z6ii/7ii. Its firmware, so why can't they fix it??
missed on one trick ricci, NO U2 music in this video ??, (PUN intended); but on a serious note, why can't Nikon add this user and other saved settings to the use of the second card?[SD or xqd], like in the slot assign menu, as well as jpeg, video and backup/overflow; then the whole menu can be shared between cameras / saved for use later when camera is off for repair/rentals.
I have U1, U2, and U3 setup. How can I temporarily change just the mode from Manual to Shutter Speed or Aperture in U1 without losing any of the other user settings?
You can not unless you go from u1 to A or S
If you want u 1 to change from A to S u have to reassign u1
Does anyone have trouble with snapbridge and their user settings? For video atleast, everytime i connect to snapbridge, i have to switch from my user mode, it’s annoying bc I can’t control my settings
And remember folks.
U1-U3 by default work like "Program (P) mode". So, that is your starting point and your endpoint if you reset one of the user modes.
I thought for a second that you had pointed out what I was doing wrong. However applying your advice did not help or change anything. Se my original comment:
Some Z7(I) kamera settings with the latest software are NOT saved by U1, U2 or U3.
I have been trying to program a custom setting for BIF including a handful of variables. However, ONLY some of them are remembered and recalled by the custom setting requiring additional manual changes before and after using the custom setting. Some of the modes: Release mode, AF area mode, Choose image area and Focus mode are NOT remembered by the custom settings.
Please tell us which camera variables that are supposed to be programmable and remembered by custom settings and which ones are not.
@@bengtenyman
According to the Z7s user manual: onlinemanual.nikonimglib.com/z7_z6/en/06_shooting_controls_01.html#saving_user_settings
The following cannot be saved to U1, U2, or U3.
Photo shooting menu:
1. Storage folder
2. Choose image area
3. Manage Picture Control
4. Multiple exposure
5. Interval timer shooting
6. Time-lapse movie
7. Focus shift shooting
Movie shooting menu:
1. Choose image area
2. Manage Picture Control
Beside that I can't tell you much more as I dont own a Z7.
Do you have the latest firmware installed? Firmware 3.30? Download link: downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/download/fw/399.html
I don't know if what you are experience is the same confusing behaviour I experienced when i got my Z50, that you can change the usermode settings (U1, U2, U3) even if you are not in any of them, and that you actually have a hidden U0 mode in the camera. I'll try to explain.
You move your mode-dial to U1, make the change you like and then save the new settings to U1. You then go on to setup U2 and U3 the same way.
After a while you want to make a change to U2, so you make the change in the camera and go save the setting to U2, but then when you move the mode-dial to U2, the mode has change to something you do not recognize. The reason being, that you had your camera in S-mode (shutter priority) when you made the change you saved to U2. So, what you did, was saving the camera settings from S-mode to U2, not save U2 with a smal change to U2.
As I said, the camera has a "hidden" U0 mode. Every setting you make to the camera in P, S, A and M mode is automatic saved into this U0 user-setting as the cameras default setting and is shared over all four modes. You change release priority while shooting in A-mode, the same setting is now used in S, M and P-mode as well.
Over time when using your camera, you start to get this U0 mode, set up to how you like to use your camera, and that might very well be close to how you had setup U2.
But where you specific changed 10 setting to be saved into U2, you only made 7 setting changes while in U0, but that is enough to make the confusion happen.
Edit: Remember, even your I-menu settings (quick menu) are being saved separately in in each of the "four" user modes as well as any custom button settings.
Remember I said that the U1-U3 by default was set to P mode and that if you reset a user-mode, it would go back to P mode? This P mode is the P-mode-state the camera was in before you made any change to the camera.
Let's say you have set up Back button Focus [BBF] in all your user modes. When you reset U1 the U1 will revert back to a state before you set up Back button focus [BBF].
So, even if BBF still work in all other modes on the camera, including P, A, S, M it won't work on U1.
Therefore, the second time you set up any user modes, it is best to start in a mode where most of your camera setting changes already exist, like your S mode.
I do not know if this was to confusing or if it helped you in any way, but it is the best I can do. Hope you find a solution to your problem.
@@HJN67: Thanks, You explain most of it pretty well. My solution so far is that I normally shot BIF with my Canon R5 but I am temporarily waiting for its return from Canon repair. Meanwhile I wish that all modes in Nikon Z7 remembered their last settings which would allow me to normally shoot in A and switch to M for BIF. Meanwhile I will forgo the Z7 U modes and use the "i" button with its (programmable) and touch sensitive variables to make necessary corrections going between A and M. I believe that if Nikon was not hurting financially they would already have fixed this.
P.S. It does not appear to matter what mode you are in when you change mode variables. They carry across to M, A, S and P no matter what. What matters is what U mode you save them to, except that U-memories do not save all selected variables. So I have to compromise. I accept the same "Release mode" "Continues" in both U-BIF and Aperture mode but I reprogram U-BIF to use FX which I want as standard in Aperture mode, and accept to reset temporarily in U-BIF, when preferred. do not save all selected variables. When I go back to A-mode and find that "Choose image area" is DX instead of FX and "Release mode" is "L" instead of "Single".
I feel like this is a downgrade to the shooting/custom menu banks system used in cameras like the D500 and the D850. A useful compromise would've been to add a setting denoting whether to automatically save the last settings (instead of having to manually go to the menu and initiate it) - that would've gotten them close to menu banks.
Also, I think the mode dial should be permanently unlockable (instead of having to press the lock button every time you want to rotate it). I shot a D7000 (which did't have a lock on the dial) for years and I haven't had a single accidental switch.
Can you tell the developers to include drive mode in the user setting. This is missing today and makes it rather useless imho
You.mentioned setting U1...3 for stills and having another set for video. I can’t see how that’s possible. Can you explain? I have mine set for landscape, sports and flowers. Cheers
My u1 in stills is set to landscape like in this video
When I flick the switch to video my u1 u2 and u3 are different
My video u1 is 1/50th f1.8 iso 100
You effectively have 6 user modes 3 for stills 3 for video
You set up the video user modes whilst in video mode
Switch to video mode and everything starts all over again!
@@RicciTalks that’s what I thought too. But wasn’t doing that for me until I just reset the Z6. Now it works as described. Weird. But thanks.
@@patricklindahl868 a reset of my z6 fixed it. Now I do have the 2 sets as @Ricci described
long exposure ...
Is it normal to have thousands of hot pixels?
(long exposure off, iso 100, 30sec, night)
Quick question, what's the simplest way to find out the total shutter accusations for z6?
you can check the exif data on a file take.... there's no camera menu option
@@RicciTalks Thank you for the reply, do you have a recommendation? i.e software to check shutter count.
Why does it not store frame advance settings? Like single shot, timer, high/low speed? Makes absolutely zero sense...
Hi Ricci where u from mate?
My user 2 is set based on manual mode... I canot changed it to A mode... I do have to set the aperture mode, go to all my settings, and saved it to my user 2... isn’t?
Yes the very first step is choosing M A or S
So choose A then Dial in all the other settings you want and save to u2
I don't get this. Too fast.