At Digital Photographer, we often advise our readers to spend time becoming familiar with all of the functions and features our cameras offer, highlighting the importance of this over getting the latest model. A new camera opens up possibilities, but these will go to waste if we don’t know the layout and menu structure well enough to make setting changes. Once you do, you can make rapid adjustments without taking an eye off the viewfinder.
After a few months of using them, we probably think we know our cameras pretty well. But even if you have used it for several years, it is possible to find hidden treasure among the sub-menus and custom functions. As an experienced shooter, what tends to happen is that we use the same tools regularly without ever truly diving into all of the available custom setup options. While accessing frequently used features becomes muscle memory, other features can be hidden in plain sight.
We’ve lost count of how many times we discovered that a camera we’ve owned for years possesses a feature we never knew about. Sometimes these might be small, but together they can help to
