IV. CONTROLSAND DISPLAY 18
Menus
Customization
isenabled by choosing C.Fn-18-1, shooting priority, and pressing the Direct Print button
and the Magnify/Reduce button simultaneously.
The EOS5D Digital SLR has three menus: Shooting, Playback and Setup. Theyare color
coded red, blue and yellow, respectively. The Shooting menu offerscontrol of recording
quality, Beep on/off, Shootwithout CF card on/off, Auto Exposure Bracketing, White
Balance shiftand bracket, Custom White Balance, Color Temperature, Color Space and
Picture Style. The Playbackmenu controls Protect, Rotate, Print Order, Auto Play, Review
time, AFpoints display/not and Histogram Brightness/RGB. The Setup menu has
settingsfor Auto power off, Auto rotate, LCD brightness, Date/Time, File numbering,
Select/Create folder, Language (15 choices), Video system, Communication, Format,
Custom Functions, Clear settings, Register camera settingsand Sensor cleaning. Thisis
a degree ofcontrol suited to pros and serious amateurs alike.
A fullcomplement of twenty-one Custom Functions with
fifty-seven settingsis provided on the EOS 5D camera. Three
additionshave been made to the functions provided by the
EOS20D. C.Fn-00 must be set to match the installed
focusing screen (0-Ee-A, 1-Ee-D, 2-Ee-S). C.Fn-17-1 isused to
improve subjectacquisition performance when the center AF
pointis selected in AI SERVO AF mode. (C.Fn-17-0 is the
Standard setting.) C.Fn-18, [LCD displ Return to shoot]
controlsthe way in which one is able to return instantly to shooting from menu viewing
or image playback. The choicesare 0 [With Shutter Button Only] or 1 [Also with AE Lock
button, etc.], in which case allshooting controls will work instantly, even during menu
operation or image playback. Thisbecomes particularly helpful when the camera is set
to Custom Function 4-1 or 4-3, in which AFis started by pressing the AE lock button.
Under the menu’sSetup tab, [Camera setting registration] allows users to store one set
offrequently used camera settings, both Shooting Settings and Menu Settings included.
The settingsthat will be saved can be displayed on the LCD panel by turning the Mode
dialto C. The following settings cannot be saved: time information, language,
communication setting, video outputand those settings that cannot be reset to default
with the camera resetfunction.
Mode dialin the
Custom position