Hello I'm Graham and I hope everyone's having a great day and welcome to today's video now this
video is an update on a previous video I shot of the functionality of the
function to button for the FCAT 82 camera and it was part of my tutorial
series for this camera now a couple of you have written in saying you're having
trouble understanding the features behind this function - button and I
actually took program it when you first get the camera by default if you press
the function button - on the top it will take you into the post focus mode now
post focus is something if you want to try and capture a group of images and
then select the one that you want for the final focus not a lot of you may use
that feature and I certainly don't but I want to use that function to button - to
give me access to one of the features that I'm most readily using the camera
and that is to set the focus point in the single area autofocus mode now
normally to set that single area to focus you've got to go into the menu
select the area cursor down to get into direct focus mode and then select the
position you want and then press menu set so it's a long-winded process but by
programming the function to button on the top of the camera just one button
press allows you to take you straight into being able to set the focus point
very quickly if you've got the single area auto focus mode it takes you to the
single area if you've got a custom multi mode set then it allows you to change
your custom program feature so let's look on the back of the camera
how you can program this button either in the record mode or you can actually
use it in the replay mode to select a different function but we'll concentrate
on the recording side so can set function to to give us direct focus area
method well let's have a look now how we can program in function button - to give
us access to the direct focus area now by default you'll notice that the cursor
doll with ISO white balance drive mode and the focus area select does exactly
as you will expect if that's white balance or you set the higher so now
judging by your comments regarding the use of the forward navigation dial and
it not being able to respond to setting white balance our ISO one a few has
happened is you've gone into the menu and in the setup you'll notice that we
got page three direct focus area now if you
select that to on when you try to use this cursor control dial the four-way
navigation you'll notice that it takes you into direct focus area and you don't
get the option now to set your ISO or drive mode or white bonds so the first
thing to do if you're having this problem is to go back into your menu on
page three of nine and turn off direct focus area turn that off now by default
function button two is set to give us the post focus method now a lot of you
won't even use that I don't use it so we're not going to use post focus we're
going to change the operation behind function button to just press the
shutter release to come back to the shooting menu so to be able to program
function button so first of all we need to go into menu set and you'll find that
on page seven of the function of the spanner and see you'll see we've got
function button set when you get to that menu view press menu set do you'll see
we got two more options to set that button in the record prep mode or in the
playback mode we want to set that up in the record mode just press menu set so
you can now see the camera shows you the function buttons the narwhale which will
be programmed so we got function one function to function three which is the
hard button so function one and function two are on the top plate function three
is the trash can icon and then you've got the other ones which are the soft
flyer ones on the LCD but we want function button too so I can either
select that by touching it with a stylus for function button sue or use your
cursor control to move down to function button to now you've got function button
to select it press menu sets and that will now show you the options you can
program behind that button and notice there is showing post focus which is
what we had by default but you see we've got twelve pages of options we can
select behind that button so we've got 48 options we can change the one we want
is on page three which is focus area set once you've established down to focus
area set press menu set and that will now confirm they've got function button
to set to focus area press the shutter release button
to take you back to shooting screen and now if you press function button to you
bring up the option to change the focus area no by default the camera is in the
49 area mode I will not know how this camera set to autofocus single so I can
define the size and position of the target we need to use the quick menu or
the focus area select to enable us to change from the 49 area to the single
area once you select a single area just press menu set and you can see we've got
a single area for her focus point to change the size and position then you
can either change the position by moving it with the cursor on the back of these
touchscreen you can use the navigation dial if you go through the operation of
selects in that mode then pressing the cursor key down to get an OBE you to get
to that operation again or know that we've got function button to programmed
if we press function button so it takes you directly to the position or you can
actually set the size and the position so if I wanted to take a picture of the
Nutcracker there I can now change the position of the focus by using the
cursor dials I can change the size by using the black ctrl down so I can make
it small and then that will be the area the camera focuses on so that is a
useful feature to Nabal you to use the direct focus method by using the
function - button rather than having to use the secondary operation of going
through the AF mode select then area select and then change the position so
you can do that in one button press by using function button - now hopefully
that has cleared up some confusion behind programming the function button -
on this camera we've selected to use the direct focus area method on function
button - but you can use any of the features that are available under the
function button to set menu to put on to function button - so for example if you
don't like using the back and cursor control to set your exposure value
compensation you could program that to happen on the press of function button -
so it's really how you want to use the camera to get the best out of it for
your shooting condition well hopefully that has cleared up some
of the issues regarding really programming a function button - we've
elected to put the direct focus area method on function button - but you can
see from the menu you can put any other features that are available in that menu
on - function button - so if you don't like using the back and cook control
down to set higher self or exposure value compensation you can program that
feature to appear on function button - so it's really how you want to set up
the camera that gives us some features that other cameras don't possess if
you're a new viewer to the channel and you've got a nested 82 and haven't seen
my tutorial series I'll put a link to the complete playlist in the video
description below so you can actually see what you can get with this camera to
achieve some better results so until the next video thanks again for watching
please do take care and I hope to see you all in my next one
good bye for now