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<blockquote data-quote="nickt" data-source="post: 738542" data-attributes="member: 4923"><p>Cindy [USER=13196]@hark[/USER] , well I ended up getting a d500. A few things I've learned. You asked above about how to get out of a memory bank and back to regular. You probably figured it out by now, but you can't. You are always in a bank. One video suggested thinking of them as 'cameras'. Camera A, Camera B, etc. So it doesn't remember particular saved settings, it just remembers where you left things. In a way, that might work out for me. I didn't care for the U's, if I changed something and I didn't specifically save it, it would go away. Not with a power cycle but with moving the mode dial. It got confusing.</p><p></p><p>My quickest way to change d500 banks so far is fn2-my menu. I thought I found another way but its really clunky and not useful. Program the fn<strong>1</strong> button for button +wheel to change the group. The problem is there is no indication. You have to bring up the info menu to see what you changed. And it only works for the shooting banks, not the custom bank. Nothing in the shooting banks I want to change as a group like that. I would have designed it to give an indication and make it so fn1 + front wheel does one bank and fn1 + back wheel does the other bank. </p><p></p><p>Something else of interest... You can have shutter button focus active along with the back button (A8). And you can set the bb to AF-ON with a particular area mode selected, different from what you are currently using with the shutter button. You can't work af-s or c into the mix though, only area mode. So that's all I have so far. I'm getting lost in videos but not much real shooting yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickt, post: 738542, member: 4923"] Cindy [USER=13196]@hark[/USER] , well I ended up getting a d500. A few things I've learned. You asked above about how to get out of a memory bank and back to regular. You probably figured it out by now, but you can't. You are always in a bank. One video suggested thinking of them as 'cameras'. Camera A, Camera B, etc. So it doesn't remember particular saved settings, it just remembers where you left things. In a way, that might work out for me. I didn't care for the U's, if I changed something and I didn't specifically save it, it would go away. Not with a power cycle but with moving the mode dial. It got confusing. My quickest way to change d500 banks so far is fn2-my menu. I thought I found another way but its really clunky and not useful. Program the fn[B]1[/B] button for button +wheel to change the group. The problem is there is no indication. You have to bring up the info menu to see what you changed. And it only works for the shooting banks, not the custom bank. Nothing in the shooting banks I want to change as a group like that. I would have designed it to give an indication and make it so fn1 + front wheel does one bank and fn1 + back wheel does the other bank. Something else of interest... You can have shutter button focus active along with the back button (A8). And you can set the bb to AF-ON with a particular area mode selected, different from what you are currently using with the shutter button. You can't work af-s or c into the mix though, only area mode. So that's all I have so far. I'm getting lost in videos but not much real shooting yet. [/QUOTE]
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