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The supplemental reference guide has exactly one sentence about this, and it doesn’t really explain well what’s been added.
The screenshot from my setup guide shows the same 5 sound type options that were there before the 5.0 update, so I think maybe he misspoke. Unless he was using a pre-production FW or something.
I appreciate the suggestion and I have considered it in the past
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If I get what you are saying there has always been essentially 4 banks with two "sub sets" one for photo and one for video with different settings in each subset which are activated when you change the camera to photo or video.
Ken you are right; apparently I never grabbed that one. So the Reference Manual is only still at 4.1. The Supplementary has the 5.0. The AC manual seems to have the new updates though. Looking at the terms Nearest and Farthest for example.
yes and the auto capture has a new number etc..
Why is this a problem? If in bank A for shooting, have bank A for video set the way you want when you switch to video.
Yep.
Actually…I rarely format the card…every 3 months or so. I just erase all images instead.
Never trust rumors. It would have been nice, but I didn't expect it. I think it's still probably possible if it's limited to he/he* raw, but I'm not an engineer
If you leave the default settings in the video banks it doesn't really matter because all 4 video banks will be the same. But if you settle on a preferred video shooting bank and configure it in bank A but you use multiple photo banks, when you flip that switch to video then you have to make sure you are in bank A.
It's only a problem if you like to use multiple photo banks. If you pretty much only use bank A then it's not a problem. The problem occurs when you might be in a situation when you like to use multiple shooting banks. If I am using banks A, B, and C for photos, and bank A for video, when I switch from bank A to bank B for photos and I switch to video I have to switch back to bank A for video. Having 4 photo and 4 video would simplify the bank use when shooting photo and videos.
As I noted I almost never do video. My primary banks are A = bird ID photography what I photograph 90% of the time B= people what I do for the 9.5% indoors in crazy lighting with subjects not posing and no supplemental lighting allowed. And also outdors. Bank C is just essentially one I never use but was a turn off subject tracking more or less auto bank when I first started. Have not used it for well over a year.
It won't take long when you start shooting video to move to manual mode for video as well.
I had the 100-400 mounted and it didn’t change from M either.
I did notice that on page 31 of the addendum for fw 5 it says "When (Extended menu bank) is set to (ON) in the photo shooting menu or video recording menu separate shooting modes can be set for photo mode and video mode. and then the note about The shooting modes banks A through D are set to P right after the firmware is upgraded.
Steve, I think it would be quite reasonable for you to charge a nominal fee to pay for your time and effort to provide valuable updates to your work.
That’s why I have been following the development of Reikan’s FoCal Pro. It’s pretty good, not quite complete yet and it doesn’t handle banks well, but I’m optimistic. Plus it works on my iPhone.
