Have you ever felt? Are you listening? Damn Uh, yeah Uh, yeah Yeah Hi guys, welcome to video number 11, part 2 for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II. And in this video we're having a look, or continuing to have a look at the custom function menus.
In this instance, custom function menu 2, image. So, we'll go into this. menu, there's not too much in here, so custom function menu 2, level 1, sound like a game, level 1, right.
Long exposure noise reduction, and we can either have this off, on, or auto so it automatically decides what the noise reduction should be. be or completely on fully. Long exposures typically will introduce more noise because the sensor becomes hotter, it heats up, so you may have that switched on, switched off depending on what you shoot. I would still probably leave it off in most cases because I'm shooting RAW and the noise reduction will be done after the fact anyway.
If you're shooting JPEG this would be more useful for that. Number 2, high ISO speed noise reduction. noise reduction.
So whenever you crank to high ISO, we're talking 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, you can have the camera either apply strong noise reduction, low or standard. There's no point in me putting any examples up on the back of this really. Go shoot some frames and see which one you prefer if you're shooting JPEG. Again, this does not apply to RAW unless you are using Canon's own software like RAW.
room is not going to import that setting in so I have that completely disabled because I want to do the noise reduction if any, generally I'm not fussed about noise, if any I'll do that in light room after or maybe with some other applications, noise ninja whatever is out there. Ok but there you go, that's options there for high ISO shooting. And generally speaking just to, from experience the 5D Mark II is pretty good on ISO, it's clean up to 800, usable.
certainly at 1600 it starts to reach the limits after that so we're talking 3200 and above not saying it's not usable it is it depends on the application 6400 is extremely noisy with banding so let's try and stay away from that if I can and sometimes you do have to go there though so number three highlight tone priority again this is a jpeg feature canon software when you're shooting raw which I don't so I have this disabled and it prioritises the highlights in an image. So that would be, if we have a look at an image... That's just pure highlights, one second. OK, so the highlights on this image here would be the white section, the brighter sections in the background. So it will prioritise those over the shadow areas and give you clean skies, clouds with detail, white dresses with detail, more so.
Now... Now, Auto Lighting Optimizer will set the camera to, or Highlight Tone Priority, sorry, will set the camera to ISO 200 and work from there. Don't know why it does that.
Canon have done the math. They've figured it out. So it sets it to ISO 200. It's disabled on mine.
Not interested. Never use it. Okay. Now, Auto Lighting Optimizer.
This is what I've just mentioned in error before. What this will do. is it will apply little tweaks to the files to bring out shadow areas and retain highlights.
So if you're in a difficult contrasty situation, a bright sky in the background with a person in the shade under a tree, there's quite a lot of contrast, it will help with scenes like that. Again, only when shooting RAW using Canon software in the editing phase or shooting JPEG, so mine's disabled. I'll deal with the exposure difficulties on location.
in camera if I can or I'm going to light it if I need to, to deal with the contrast problems or the dynamic range problems I'll get out of flash. And that is custom function menu 2. So not a whole lot in there. Again if you've got any questions regarding these let me know in the comments below.
Don't forget to like, share and subscribe. What I would recommend doing certainly if you shoot JPEG is to figure out what you want to have set, rather than me showing example pictures of stuff which... I may look at these in later videos separately because it's the same for all Canon cameras but go out and try it and you can't really get more benefit than that rather than sat watching a video about lighting optimizer and looking at the differences. Go and shoot the stuff that you like to shoot and see whether it benefits you shooting the work that you shoot.
It's just far more useful for you. Okay, well thanks very much for watching and again we'll see you in the next video.