Typically, the Set up button serves a unmarried function on the Canon EOS 60D: When a card is displayed, you printing the button to lock in menu selections. This setup keeps things simple, simply you have the pick to utilise the Gear up button for one boosted task: displaying the Quality settings, the Flash Exposure Compensation setting, or several other handy items. The Set button retains its original purpose, regardless of the additional part you lot add together to it.

To customize the button, take these steps:

  1. Set photographic camera Manner dial to one of the exposure modes in the Artistic Zone.

    Y'all tin't adjust the performance of the Fix push button in the Basic Zone (Total Auto, Flash Off, Creative Auto, and Image Zone). Nor does the button perform its new function when the camera is ready to those modes.

  2. Press Bill of fare to bring up the menu system and so navigate to the Custom Function group (using the Master dial or the multicontroller).

  3. Using the Quick Control punch or the multicontroller (up or down), highlight C.Fn. IV: Operation/Others.

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  4. Press Set up.

    You see one of the functions displayed onscreen. Call up that the showtime Custom Function you reach might not exist the 1 yous're after. If not, come across the next step.

  5. Scroll through the group's custom functions (Quick Control punch; or multicontroller, left or right) until y'all achieve Assign SET Push, which is Custom Part 2.

    In this case, you don't come across a consummate list of options. Y'all see the enabled selection and an illustration of part of the camera back.

  6. Press the Set up button.

    You take to printing Fix to access the options.

  7. Highlight your choice, using the Quick Control dial or multicontroller (left or right).

    • 0: Pressing Ready does nothing extra.

    • one: Pressing the Gear up push when no carte is displayed whisks you to the screen where you can change the Image Quality setting.

    • two: Pressing Ready accesses the Pic Style screen.

    • 3: Pressing Ready opens White Balance.

    • 4: Pressing Gear up opens Flash exposure bounty.

    • v: Pressing Fix turns on the electronic level in the viewfinder — just again, simply for the Creative Exposure modes.

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  8. Press the Set button to lock in changes.

Now whenever you shoot in the Creative Exposure modes and press Set up while no menus are displayed, the button takes on the function you lot just assigned to it. To become back to the default setting, repeat these steps and select option 0 in Step six. The button then reverts to its original single-minded purpose, which is to lock in menu selections.

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About the volume authors:

Julie Adair King has written numerous books on Nikon and Canon cameras likewise equally digital photography. She also conducts digital photography classes at the Palm Beach Photographic Center. Robert Correll is a creative professional and the writer of High Dynamic Range Digital Photography For Dummies.

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