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Camera Custom Settings

published by walter rowe on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 12:25pm

Some camera makers are starting to include a feature where all of your custom settings can be saved to a file on your storage card and imported to other cameras. I have ordered a new Nikon D300 which supports this feature. What other cameras support this feature? Would you be willing to post a message with a Zipped copy of your custom settings file attached?

There is an excellent D300 custom settings message thread on Nikonians.org that discusses custom settings and has a spreadsheet showing all of the custom settings menus with recommended settings for the various custom settings banks.

Did I say custom settings enough? LOL.

Walter Rowe - Rowe Images
Professional Photographer
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Submitted by Shooter5150 on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 1:38pm.

I have a few of the custom functions "tweaked" on my 40D based on the recommendations from users on sportsshooter.com since the bulk of what I should is sports.

These settings work just as well for concert work, from my experience.

Jamie "Shooter" Taylor
Photographer
TailWind Imaging
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Jamie "Shooter" Taylor
TailWind Imaging
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Submitted by walter rowe on Mon, 06/02/2008 - 2:32pm.

Care to share them? Does the 40D let you save the to your flash card and back them up to your computer? Maybe you can create a ZIP file and attached it to a post here.

Walter Rowe - Rowe Images
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Columbia, Maryland - USA

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Submitted by Shooter5150 on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 10:51am.

You can't save the settings to a card and back them up to your computer.

The next time I'm doing a card dump I'll get my settings off my camera. There are quite a few you can customize, but I only use a few.

Jamie "Shooter" Taylor
Photographer
TailWind Imaging
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." -- Buddha
http://www.myspace.com/tailwindimaging
http://tradewindimaging.photoreflect.com

Jamie "Shooter" Taylor
TailWind Imaging
"Away you will go sailin/In a race among the ruins/If you plan to face tomorrow/Do it soon." -- Gordon Lightfoot
http://www.myspace.com/tailwindimaging
http://tradewindimaging.photoreflect.com