Hello I'm Graham and I hope everyone's on a great day welcome to the first of a
new video series for new users to the Canon m50 mirrorless camera now in
today's video I'll be taking look at some of the menu systems of the Canon M
50 and how you can simplify the selection of the most commonly used menu
operations but first let's look at the two ways that you can access these menus
by default the camera is set up into what's called a guided operation so if
you press the menu set button you'll find that you've got a display across
the top of the screen which has shooting settings playback settings function
settings and display level settings now to access any one of those you can use
the touchscreen as this is a touch sensitive screen you can use the left
and right navigation buttons to move across or you can use the front control
down to move backwards and forwards when you want to access the particular menu
you'll press the on screen okay or you press the menu set button depending on
your preference now if you're shooting in the fully automatic mode to see mode
or the creative filters mode you'll find that you've got just five pages of menus
when you're in the P mode the AV mode TV mode or M mode you'll find you've got
eight pages of six operations so if you're in those modes you've got 48
pages where you've got menu operations so you have to try and remember where
they are so that is the guided operation and there is a quicker way of getting
access to the screens that you want and that's called the standard method so if
I return to the main menu for go to display level settings and touch display
level settings press menu set you can see that menu display is highlighted as
guided no can change the guided mode to our standard menu so if I just press
guided and I changed this to a standard when I press menu set that will have
lock that in place go back to menu again you can now see that that instead of
getting that game door a Texas directly into the menu structure
I say I want to the shooting operation I can just press the shooting icon or I
fall into the function set up I press the spun or icon it takes us to oh we
need to be again you can use the left and right and navigation buttons to move
you through each of the pages individually and then that will switch
to the top tab and take you back through the top menu again you can use the front
control dial if you want to do that or ideally just use the touch screen to get
to where you need to be now to gain access to the most used operations you
can use what's called my menu control now the my menu important is on your bow
for the semi-automatic modes of P AV T V and M you won't find it if you try to
access this in the fully automatic mode so if you are in one of the
semi-automatic modes and here we're in P when you press the menu button you'll
find that there is a star on the top line and if you press the star it brings
you up to my menu no I partly configure this to show you
the operation of it on here on tab 1 I've got my image quality setting my
still image aspect ratio picture style metering mode white balance and custom
white balance and match they name the tab image settings if I cut it through
to top number 2 you find that I've got this set as functions now on tab number
3 at the moment is blank so let's add another menu tab and populate it with
some of the most useful features that we can use for our genre photography so if
we go up to the top here and add up my menu tab click OK now asks us to
configure it so again press ok now it has you to select the items you want to
register so again press ok and now you can select from all available options of
one you want to appear on your particular tab now it is possible to
duplicate a menu item on multiple pages so for example on this page I might want
to have the image quality select it and then press ok I might want to have flash
control select it and press ok I might want to
have the metering mode select that compress ok I might want to have the AF
method select that now when I press menu it will ask me to I want to rename the
tump as one of the less fat print options now if I come back to that menu
can see now that I can actually sort them I want to dissolve the order they
appear so if I wanted a method to be the first you select that and then use the
up and down key to position that where you want to have it on your menu when
you're ready you press the menu button if you wanted to delete the selected
item you made you can delete it you can relate all the items on that tab you can
delete the tab in entirety or you can rename it so you wanted to rename it
it's highlighted there as my menu one but you got you to delete that by using
the Delete key and then you can put your own name in let's the call this odds or
the old D D s and then we can press menu ok that's ok to confirm it you know
notice that the title of the menu is odds now it doesn't end there you once
you've setup your pages and you've got six times with six items on each page so
you got the option to set up 936 over your most useful features you can
actually only have it display your menu rather than all the other menus so to
gain access to that cost across to the fourth page and where it says menu
display if we go down to menu display press the set button we can display only
my menu tab so when we do that if I come back out and go back into the menu
you notice that we've only got my menu items now so if I go cursor to one then
I gain access to the features I want which I set up on my first page you
don't get that option to go shooting menu or setup or playback so these are
the most commonly used items and you can actually set any of those playback
options off function keys on this particular page or
any of your setup pages if you wanted to go back then you go over to page 4 go
back to menu display and you can do normal display and then you've got your
main shooting playback functions and display level controls showing at the
top of the screen so that we are those how to set up my menu to give you access
to the most frequently used menu selections that you make if your only
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series now the next video we'll be looking at
shooting in the P or program auto mode what benefits that gives you over
shooting in the fully auto mode and then we're moving on to the aperture priority
and the time value or shutter priority mode before we move on to the fully
manual mode so until the next video again thanks very much for watching
please do take care and I hope to see you all in the next one
good bye for now