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yauman

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Blackbelly said:
Thank you yauman, I probably was misunderstanding U1 and 2. What I'd hoped for was a fail-safe way to quickly shoot moving or action shots because when I attempted to use the Scene Sports Mode, I would accidentally slide off of it. That's when another person on Nikonites suggested I try U1. So, the U modes will not lock shutter speeds or aperture positions, is that correct?
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Read this document carefully about the different modes of Nikon's autofocus system and how it works if you want to understand how to use it effectively for shooting moving images and action shots.
 

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Blackbelly

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Yauman, can I really not save different "saving" modes? I'd like to have U1 be purely RAW and U2 be RAW and JPG, but I cannot make that happen. Yauman's response: "No it doesn't "lock" in anything - it just give you all the settings - and I mean ALL the camera settings that you have saved in Ux - everything you can customize - shooting mode, storage mode, focus mode, flash mode, etc. So, if you set to U1 when your aperture is at f3.5, Shutter at /120 and ISO at 100, than whenever you switch to U1, you camera will have those setting as well as all the other settings (image mode, custom buttons etc). Think of it as a way to quickly custom set your camera's custom settings without going through all the customer setting menu. So, if you are in Aperture Priority mode when you save to U1, then when you go to U1, you'll be in A -priority mode with whatever ISO and shutter speed you had when you "saved" to U1. Like I mentioned, I shoot in manual mode most of the time so I programmed all my favorite settings to U1. Occasionally when I decide to shoot A-Prioity (lazy), I turn it to A-mode and when done, I turn it back to U1. Sometime, when I let some Point-and-shoot friend use my camera, I turn it to Auto. No program - when I get it back, I just turn it back to U1 and voila, I have all my favorite setting. When I shoot in studio with studio lights and off camera multi speedlites, I just set it to U2 which has all my pre-programmed settting for that situation. But I still need to adjust for my exposure for each image I take."
 
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yauman

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No - not really. The U1 and U2 are for saving a complete set of customization. So, yes, set your image to RAW and save it to U1 but along with that is all the other stuff you have customized. U1 and U2 is not meant for customizing single setting but for a suite of custom setting for different shooting modes.

If you just want to go from Raw to Raw+JPG there is a very quick short cut way of doing it already built in for you. Just press the "QUAL" button in the back and rotate the command dial (front dial) and you can select the "quality" of the image and how the SD cards are used very quickly. (The indication is on the top LCD screen left column.)
 
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Blackbelly

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I'm sorry to not be understanding this, and hopefully there is nothing wrong with my camera. I cannot seem to save my user setting of RAW and J to RAW only for different shooting modes. It seems to be all or nothing. I want to use U1 for RAW only and U2 for RAW and JPG but cannot make that happen.
 
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Blackbelly said:
I'm sorry to not be understanding this, and hopefully there is nothing wrong with my camera. I cannot seem to save my user setting of RAW and J to RAW only for different shooting modes. It seems to be all or nothing. I want to use U1 for RAW only and U2 for RAW and JPG but cannot make that happen.
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Here's how you do that:

Set your Mode dial to U1.
Go into your Shooting menu (Camera Icon).
Set Role played by card in slot 2 to the RAW slot 1 - JPG slot 2 option.
Press OK.
Set Image Quality to the RAW + Fine option (or whatever resolution JPG you want).
Press OK.
Go into the Setup menu (Wrench icon).
Go into Save user settings and click left one time.
Click on Save to U1.
Click left one more time.
On Save settings click OK.
Exit your menus.

Now repeat the above steps but for Mode dial U2. To do this go back to the Image Quality menu and select JPG and set slot two's role as "Backup". Be sure you do all the "Save" steps and press OK and so forth, just like you did when setting up U2.

When you're all done, putting your Mode dial on U1 will have you shooing RAW + JPG. The RAW files will go to the card in slot one and JPG copies will go to the card in slot two. Switching to Mode U2 will have you shooing JPG photos only, with the card in slot two making backup copies of shots on card in slot one.

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yauman

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Yea, H-Fish got it right. But understand that the U1 and U2 setting are just like all the other "Setting" on your dial - like A, S, P, etc. Your U1 setting is good only when you are in U1. If you turn to U2, you get the U2 setting and if you turn to A, you get your default for your camera which you have set. So, if you set to whatever for U1, you need to stay with U1. Turn to something else, and it's no longer the U1 setting!
 
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Horoscope Fish

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yauman said:
Yea, H-Fish got it right. But understand that the U1 and U2 setting are just like all the other "Setting" on your dial - like A, S, P, etc. Your U1 setting is good only when you are in U1. If you turn to U2, you get the U2 setting and if you turn to A, you get your default for your camera which you have set. So, if you set to whatever for U1, you need to stay with U1. Turn to something else, and it's no longer the U1 setting!
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This is correct.

There seems to be some misunderstanding about what U1 and U2 are/do. "Modes" U1/U2 are really just blank slates you can customize and save. They don't "do" anything until you save a combination of settings to one or both of them using the steps I outlined above. Once you have those settings saved to either U1 or U2, you can do whatever you want to your settings and menus, use any other mode -- P, S, A, M, Auto, whatever -- and then immediately return to your saved settings in U1 or U2 by putting the mode dial back to U1 or U2.

As soon as you change your Mode dial to, say, A for aperture priority, your camera will use whatever settings you last used outside of U1/U2. Those modes (U1/U2) are "Custom Modes" that you design and save to those settings on the Mode dial.

I hope that helps clarify what U1 and U2 are for and how the work.

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yauman

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Oh, just thought of this analogy - think of the U1 and U2 settings as you would the "Scene Mode" that is available in your D7100. You can select in the "Scene Mode" for Portrait, Landscape, Night Landscape, Snow/Beach, etc etc. Every time you select one of those modes, you are telling the camera to preset a whole bunch of stuff, relevant to making the best picture out of that scenery. Think of the U1 and U2 as just another couple more Scene Modes that you can customize yourself. So in my case, I save to U2 all the camera setting I would use when I am shooting a model in a studio - that would be my "Studio" mode.
 
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Blackbelly

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Thank you, H-fish, your details helped me directly! I've learned that the mistake I was making was to set up the program that I wanted in U1 by first going to the S or the A mode and THEN to Save User Settings. But you told me to go directly to U1 before I save it -- the manual had not made that clear!!! One simple question: after going to Save User Settings, you mention "click left" a couple of times. I presume that's a typo cuz I need to click "right."

Related question: on my D80 none of the M, S, A, or P modes could be adjusted differently. It looks like that is still the same with the 7100?
 
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