Here’s a little tip I thought I’d share for changing settings quickly when shooting, especially from outdoors to indoors, or vice. When shooting indoors your settings are at a high ISO, low aperture, and maybe slow shutter speed. Then, you quickly have to shoot outdoors right away (especially if you’re shooting a wedding, from inside the church to the outside of the church because the bride and groom are leaving). Changing your settings might take away a few seconds of moments you probably missed. The smile. The kiss. The wiping of the tears. Wouldn’t it be easier to just turn your mode dial to change your settings without wasting time? This is why the Canon 5D MkII has a feature for this, for those of you who don’t like to read the manual…

Here’s what I’m talking about. C1, C2, and C3 at the top of the mode dial on Canon 5D MkII. This allows you to have multiple settings (aperture, ISO, shutter speed, white balance) saved, well only 3 actually. But you get the point.

To access these babies:
1. Set your settings to your desired exposure (aperture, ISO, and shutter speed). I set mine to f2.8, ISO 100, and shutter speed of 640. This was probably an outdoor setting under a shade. Make sure you get to the location and set your settings to your preferred exposure.

2. Go to your Menu. (Please don’t mind my screen protector, I’m not an expert at putting screen protectors haha)

3. Under the 3rd wrench icon, or yellow menu you will find “Camera User Settings”. Go into that.
4. Choose “Register”
5. Choose “Mode dial: C1″ to save your settings under that dial.
6. Repeat steps 1 to 5 for a different setting and save under C2 or C3.

Tada! You can now use your C1, C2, and C3 mode dials. Of course you can change your settings while in these dials; however, it will turn back to the saved settings after the screen disappears or sleep or standby on the grey screen near the shutter button.

You can always turn back to Manual if you’re finished with the saved settings and taking everything slow

I hope that was useful to you as it was to me!

Happy shooting!

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