Share your Customizations and button reassignments

Learning more about my 610 and playing around with some of the custom features.

I use the My-Menu feature - find it helpful.

I'm trying to decide what to do with the FN button on the front - what makes most sense? Using the 'level' horizon button (had to read to figure it out but Ok might be useful).

Re-assigning focus to the "AE-L / AF-L" button (back focusing) seems to be a thing. Anyone do this? Recommended or not? Have not messed with this yet.

The "Depth of Field Preview" button on the front I don't use but see it could be reassigned - should I be using it or re-assign it to ???

Any other customized settings people really like

Fortkentdad said:

Learning more about my 610 and playing around with some of the custom features.

I use the My-Menu feature - find it helpful.

I'm trying to decide what to do with the FN button on the front - what makes most sense? Using the 'level' horizon button (had to read to figure it out but Ok might be useful).

Re-assigning focus to the "AE-L / AF-L" button (back focusing) seems to be a thing. Anyone do this? Recommended or not? Have not messed with this yet.

The "Depth of Field Preview" button on the front I don't use but see it could be reassigned - should I be using it or re-assign it to ???

Any other customized settings people really like

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About all I do is re-assign the AE-L/AF-L button for BBF and the FN button to Virtual Horizon (which I use a *LOT*). That, and a customized My Menu, and I'm pretty much good to go.
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I have read the book but cant find any thing to answer this,is there any way using this idea i can program in a exposure adjustment say + or -2 stops and bring it in by reassigning one of the buttons,i tried to look at using U1 or 2 and seeing if one of these could be say brought in by pressing the DOF button but it would seem i can only acces them the normal manner.
An explanation,ime using auto iso if a BIF presents itself i would like to be able to make a exposure adjustment by pressing one button.

Sorry if i have missed something obvious i tend to do that.

Why don't you simply use the +/- EV button for that? It's there and already doing that job.

When you're using auto-ISO, the light meter still affects what ISO will be picked even in manual and by using compensation, you tell it to over or underexpose and it'll do so by adjusting the ISO.

J-see said:

Why don't you simply use the +/- EV button for that? It's there and already doing that job.

When you're using auto-ISO, the light meter still affects what ISO will be picked even in manual and by using compensation, you tell it to over or underexpose and it'll do so by adjusting the ISO.

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With my serious need for reading glasses i often cock it up with out them,pressing one button would avoid my problem and it can take me too long,you would have to see the lake where i spend most of my time there is a tall building tall trees and islands with trees on,i get literally a few seconds to take a BIF, so thats why most of the time they get no exposure adjustment at the taking point,i can spend those seconds adjusting exposure or taking pictures.

mikew said:

I have read the book but cant find any thing to answer this,is there any way using this idea i can program in a exposure adjustment say + or -2 stops and bring it in by reassigning one of the buttons,i......

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Don't know if you can - hopefully someone has the answer to that.

I appreciate the value of a one button setting even if there are other ways (click the +/- button a few times).

A consideration though - I shoot RAW (and JPG because I'm a redundant kinda guy, and like to repeat myself). But when I open the RAW file PP (Aftershot or Paintshop or ____ ) you can adjust the exposure there. I

As for the "U" while it does save your exposure setting (just double checked and it works on mine) it saves everything so all of your settings will change, not just the exposure which is what I'm sure you are talking about.

Thanks i just shoot raw and can pull images back but it would be better to have them right in the first place,i have tried making exposure changes in a hurry but ime never quick enough in my situation

My Menu for sure-everything I need I've placed there. I also use U1 & U2 for the majority of my shooting. It's nice because I can make changes to the settings while in the field, if need be. I just wish we could assign a name to U1 & U2 that would pop up on the top LCD when we choose it. I always forget which settings I stored to which one.

I'm still keeping the Fn as FX/DX, on that off-chance "pre-cropping" might save me time later in PS and avoid using lens corners for some small critter, but thinking that 1st Item from the My Menu aka flash commander might be in my near future.

Then the aperture check button is my preview for when I use heavier lenses to avoid letting go of the heavy barrel/check shots in general, much, much faster when needed.

And exposure lock is set to hold exposure, for when I have to shoot into a spot light or something that would throw the camera off. Point below the blinding sun, lock, point at the sun and shoot.

Horoscope Fish said:

About all I do is re-assign the AE-L/AF-L button for BBF and the FN button to Virtual Horizon (which I use a *LOT*). That, and a customized My Menu, and I'm pretty much good to go.
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I actually just use the grid in the viewfinder and the scene I'm shooting for leveling. Horizon feature is nice, but sometimes a bit too slow.

SkvLTD said:

I'm still keeping the Fn as FX/DX, on that off-chance "pre-cropping" might save me time later in PS and avoid using lens corners for some small critter, but thinking that 1st Item from the My Menu aka flash commander might be in my near future.

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I advise against leaving the front button as FX/DX. The very issue with my D600 that brought me to this website a few years ago was accidentally hitting the FX/DX button and switching to DX, which I did not realize as it was not totally obvious to me in the viewfinder (because I had never used that function), so group shots that filled the FX space were cropped too tight to be any use. (Heads cut off.) And I'm not the only person on this forum who has confessed to that mistake.

I do use Back Button Focusing with the AE/AL button reassigned. My preference is AF-C, single point, so I can focus on the eye, then recompose. Or, if the subject is moving, I can just hold down the focus button without making any other adjustments and fire away.

i use back button focus and assign the front function for exposure lock