Have you ever felt? Are you listening? Damn Uh Yeah Hi guys, welcome to video number 11, part 1 for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
And we are now on to the custom function settings menu. There doesn't look to be a whole lot in here, but as you go deeper into the menus there is more stuff in there. So there will be a few parts to video 11 to get all this covered. So the first thing to note, this is the orange menu with four dots.
And CFN, custom function, that's short for watch. one. Why do you have to put it in Roman numerals?
I do not know but there it is. So, exposure. Now, we're quite far along in the options on this so I'll get back to the beginning so it tells you which level that you're at on this menu. Exposure level increment. We can change this from one third stop to half stop.
The camera natively does full stops anyway so we can have the camera change exposure in half stops. So, if I set... half stops now and we bring up the quick menu okay if you look at some odd figures coming up there 350 750th of a second 3000 they're odd don't normally see those but that's because it's working in half stops okay and it'll be the same for the aperture you'll see 6.7 so that's why on some pictures when you have a look and the f-stop says 9.5 and you're like eh how well is because it's working in half stops okay so we'll go back exposure change that third stops. I prefer third stops for more fine tuning especially when working with flash on the aperture and the ISO. Fine tuning is there as well for the shutter speed, but that's just what I prefer working with so I leave mine on one third stops.
I don't know what they're set to from factory, I think it's half, I don't know why. So we'll go to menu 2 within here and ISO speed setting. Now the ISO can be set to about 1.5, set separately you can have it do full stops so ISO 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 or you can do one third stops so 100, 125, 160 and so forth going through the ranges there.
So I have mine set for third stops so when I go ISO here I've got the third stop options that we can see there. If we change that to full stops, we'll go back, oops, we've got we have just the full stops on there. So we'll leave that on the third stops. Wrong button. There we go.
ISO speed increments, one third stops. ISO expansion is on. Now, this, when it's off, we'll notice when we go back to this menu here, go into the ISO, we have auto, that's auto ISO. So...
never really used auto ISO on the DSLR, I do on the Fuji. Okay, we have 100, 125, the third stops all the way up to the native highest which is 6400 or 6400. Now if you want to use the DSLR, you can use the DSLR with the DSLR, but you can also use the DSLR with the DSLR with the DSLR If you go back into here and turn ISO expansion on, we get H1 and H2. Now these are cheated ISO values so H1 is 12,800, H2 is 25,600. AKA noisy as hell.
But they're there if you need them. It depends what kind of work you do. If you're out there doing photojournalism in very little light in a war zone you can't go setting up flashes, you can't carry that crap with you. So you're shooting high ISO and what you get is what you get. what you get.
So that's why they're there. Okay, so we'll go custom function menu 4 or custom function menu 1 number 4. Okay, bracketing auto cancel is on. So whenever you do a...
Auto Exposure Bracketing or use an Auto Exposure Bracketing feature. Once you've done your shot, it cancels off, turns that feature off straight away. Resets to normal. You can have that on or off.
So we'll go to number 5. Exposure Bracketing Sequence. You can either have this as 0'd out, then a minus exposure, then a plus. Plus 1 or minus 1, 0'd out and plus. So you can...
change the order in which it does the bracketed shots. I don't suppose it really matters, but each to their own. Number six, exposure, safety, shift.
Enable in AV and TV mode. So it keeps an eye out for things like whether you're using flash, will it go above the sync speed, is it going to drop too low and give camera shake. So it kind of babysits what you're doing, basically.
I leave that disabled. It's because I rarely shoot aperture priority with the DSLR so it's of no use to me. So menu number 7, flash sync speed.
Also the camera will automatically monitor the sync speed and get you to within the sync speed. If it's set to high speed sync with a flash on that's capable it will push past it. You can set it to within 200th of a second which is the camera's sync speed. Although off-brand triggers 160th of a second.
your safe bet or you can have it to 200th of a second fixed, that's it, locked on. I've always left mine on auto because I'm using manual flash, manual triggers so it's a non-issue so I'll leave it there. Notice that's to do with the sync speed when you are in aperture priority mode. So it's going to automatically warn you if your shot is going to be over-exposed because it's going to limit you to that sync speed. Remember the camera can do 1 8000th of a second, hit that 200th of a second limit without high speed sync, it won't let you go any further.
You've got to either lower your ISO, put ND filters on or stop down your aperture to deal with the extra light. And that is custom function menu number one. So we'll have a look at the next menu in the next part of video 11. Of course if you've got any questions, again, stick them in the comments below.
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