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16. Menu Functions: User Settings
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Class introduction
12:33 2Photo Basics
04:07 3Camera Controls: Exposure Control
03:57 4Camera Controls: Top Deck
21:14 5Camera Controls: Drive and Metering
33:54 6Camera Controls: Back Side
26:44 7Quick Menu Overview
26:28 8Camera Controls: Back Side Navigation
08:21Camera Controls: Left Side, Right Side, Bottom and Front
15:05 10Lenses
06:17 11Menu Functions: Image Quality
13:59 12Menu Functions: Focus Settings
20:18 13Menu Functions: Shooting Setting
21:19 14Menu Functions: Flash Settings
05:31 15Menu Functions: Movie Setting
19:22 16Menu Functions: User Settings
05:38 17Menu Functions: Screen Set Up
09:10 18Menu Functions: Button Dial Settings
15:23 19Menu Functions: Power Management and Save Data Set Up
04:40 20Menu Functions: Connection Settings
13:43 21Menu Functions: My Menu
03:13 22Menu Functions: Playback Menu
08:14 23Camera Operations
13:12Lesson Info
Menu Functions: User Settings
next up is the set up menu, and there's a lot of things. There's a lot of little rabbit holes in here we're going to go into in setting up parameters for all different types of operations on the camera. The 1st 1 is kind of generically called user settings, and so this is kind of a catch all phrase for a lot of variety of settings on the camera. So let's dive in further into this one and see what we have. First and foremost is something that we do quite frequently is format the memory cards. This deletes the information. The file directory cleans the cards off, so there's a good communication between the camera body and the card. This is something I recommend you do on a regular basis after you have downloaded and backed up your information so you'll be able to come in here and format either slot one or slot to course date and time said it as needed. Of course, we will have some options for those of you who travel with the time difference here, you can keep your home settings. You don'...
t actually have to change the clock, and you can just go in and change it to the local time when you are traveling, and then when you come home, just switch it over to home time. In that way, you don't have to change the clock. In that case, different languages for whichever one you speak most frequently. Next up is my menu. So one of the items we're gonna get to at the very end of this menu section is talking about my menu. And what we're gonna need to do is to come in here to add and rank are items. So we're actually we're actually gonna wait. We have some patients and we're gonna come back and put these in a little bit later. But just remember, we got to come into the user settings in order to get this. Next up is sensor cleaning. As I mentioned before, the camera automatically will clean the sensor, but if you wanted to go in and change it when it was either off or on, you could do it. There's not really too much difference, but you can change it according to your needs. If you do want to clean the sensor manually the way that I do it is with a rocket blower and think everyone who has this camera should have one of these. There's different brands and styles, but something like that is used to blow in and knock dust off the sensor. And so be careful not to hit the sensor. You don't want to do that, but that'll knock off a good portion of the dust that may collect on the sensor after time. If something is just not coming off, that's when you need to sweep it off in. One of the best options I've seen is this lens pen sensor clear to, and this is basically a little pan, and what you do is you go in and you look at the dust on your sensor with a magnifying glass and white flashlight, and you wipe this stuff kind of off to the edge of the sensor and get that stuff away off the image area on your sensor. And so it's a good little device doesn't sell for too much money, and it's small in size. Getting in here and resetting the camera. If you have, for instance, been messing with the camera and it's all out of sorts and you just want to reset it. You can come in here and reset all the shooting menu items as well as all the set up menu items. And so there are actually two different categories, depending on what you would like to reset. And that's actually what I did with my camera before I started the class today, because I want it to be just like a camera would be from the factory that you get straight out of the box. The next category that we're gonna look at is sound set up. This camera is possible of making all sorts of noises, and you can control them by diving in here and adjusting. First up is the beep that is followed when you auto focus and this is used to confirm auto focus, it can get a little annoying with lots of people do entered in the same place at the same time, or it going on and on and on. And so this is something that a lot of people like to turn off just to be a little bit more discreet in there photography. And so turn this off. Next up is the self timer beep. There is a light on the front that lets you know when the self timer is gonna fire. So you don't need it really for the self timer. And so if you want to reduce the sounds, you can turn that one ofus well, operational volume. This is when you're going through the menu system. Do you want to hear little clicks and beeps as you change from one setting to the next? And once again, you know, my little personal style here is just keep everything on the low key. Don't make a big nuisance of yourself with the camera and noises that it makes. And so that's why I'm recommending turning them off in most every case, the shutter volume. This will only take in effect when you are using the electronic shutter, which does not have any noise at all. And switching to an electronic center is a little bit hard to get used to because you don't get that shutter clicking sound that we're all used to. And so for some people, they might want to leave this on one of the lower settings just to confirm that the camera actually did fire cause sometimes it's hard to tell without that shutter sound. Now, if you do have the shutter making a sound, there are three different tones that you can choose, and I will let you experiment and choose which one of those tones is your favorite. If you are playing movies back, how loud do you want the sound on the movie playback? Remember the speakers on the bottom of the camera, so it's a little bit hard to say. See might want to tilt the camera little bit in order to hear it better, but you can adjust the sound as necessary here.
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Justina Tumaite
Thank you it's super helpful. I loved it :)
Robert Felice
I loved this class! How much did I love this class? I loved this class and I don't even have an X-T3! I have the Fujifilm X100V, a camera similar enough to the X-T3 that this class easily covered 85% - 90% of the features on my camera. It's also a camera new enough that there isn't much available on how to use it. This class got the job done for me. Well done, John!
Eric Geerts
I've been with CL for quite a while and I pretty much got used to (all of) John's top quality classes. Kinda been waiting for this one over the last months. So thanks again, John, for your consistent 5 star quality standard!!
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