I tried experimenting with the custom recall recall where you have a bunch of settings associated with a custom button. Am I missing something but it seems when I set this up that the settings are only applied while the custom button is being held down. If I let go of the button it reverts back to the previous settings. I tried pressing the shutter while the custom button was held down and I can’t remember if it worked or not but regardless it seemed very awkward since I also use back-button focus and so holding down three buttons at the same time is a pain. Am I missing something?
This is possibly the best feature of these cameras. I don’t know how to implement it best if you have autofocus on the shutter and the recall settings, if you’re using a new focus on the custom button.
For example, my back button focus is set to tracking area medium. My recall custom hold set to area wide. Including the shutter button, that is three ways of focusing the camera in three buttons (manual, tracking, wide - along with other desired functions). Very, very slick. Many times the wide area will perform better at grabbing an eye than tracking.
Keep the button held down while shooting, no problem.
I’ll have to try it again. I was expecting it would be a way to switch between a bunch of settings which I currently do now using the memory recall - MR1, MR2, etc. I like how with the recall custom hold you can choose which settings are affected rather than having a whole ton of things change as happens with the memory recall. I just wasn’t expecting that I’d have to continue holding the custom button down to have those settings in effect.
Since the last update the Back-Button Focus has been replaced by the 1/2 shutter press. Yes that takes some adjustment but works great once you get used to it. That frees the old AF-ON Button for use with the Custom Recall function. I use this to make an Oh Sh*t button for when something happens unexpectedly. I use the lens buttons as focus hold button. This all works extremely well together once it become muscle memory.
When in the Recall custom hold 1, 2 or 3 screen, if you check the box for AF ON and then register, this will add AF to the button you map. Ex) if you map AF-ON to Recall custom hold1, it will activate all the settings you registered as well turning on AF i.e. the AF-ON button is both custom hold1 AND back button focus. With this scenario I would turn AF off on the shutter.
There is one set of parameters that you can change with a custom button just by pushing, it is a toggle of a registered custom shoot set. But any other buttons that you customize have to be held down while shooting in order for them to be in effect.
2xbass wrote:
I’ll have to try it again. I was expecting it would be a way to switch between a bunch of settings which I currently do now using the memory recall - MR1, MR2, etc. I like how with the recall custom hold you can choose which settings are affected rather than having a whole ton of things change as happens with the memory recall. I just wasn’t expecting that I’d have to continue holding the custom button down to have those settings in effect.
It’s a temporary override. It’d be nice if you could lock it similar to, say, switching to apsc mode, but considering how many different settings you can change, I’m kind of glad it works the way it does. The MR slots would be better for a full toggle of settings.
I used to use ae-l to engage eye af, so when always on eye af came, it became superfluous to assign a separate key. AF-on functions as the user selected autofocus settings, ae-l to recall custom hold, and the shutter button does not activate af. To be able to change the character of the camera with one button on the fly is a top three feature for this camera. Just plan it out and take a photo of the settings if you need to redo them in future.
