Hello, everyone, it's Danielle from Pangolin Photo Safaris and today I'll be
talking about photo shooting menu banks with Nikon.
Before i continue, please remember to subscribe to our Youtube channel and
press the bell icon to receive notifications about when our next videos
are available to watch.
Photo shooting menu banks is what Nikon calls it and other brands call it
custom settings or custom modes and the older models in Nikon it's called user
settings and the newer models it's called photo shooting menu banks.
So picture this. You're sitting on the Chobe River
and it's late afternoon. Beautiful golden light and you're shooting a
silhouette of an elephant backlit. Settings are all set up for a beautiful
silhouette and suddenly you see a Yellow Billed Stork approaching
and you want to pan it. Unfortunately, you are now set up
for a silhouette of an elephant which is a completely different group of settings
to the Yellow Billed Stork flying by. Now you want to change
quickly between the two groups of settings and
there's a way to do that. Let me start with the older Nikon models
and you might see that there's a U1 and a U2
on your model of camera and it's on the mode dial.
What you do is you set your camera up for the shutter speed and the f-stop
that you want. So let's say 1/2500s and f8 right.
ISO on auto
If that's the combination of settings you want go into your menu
and then under your setup menu which is 5th down,
your spanner on the left-hand side, you go into
save user settings and then you'll say save to U1. Press right
and press save settings. Now the settings that you chose for U1
will be registered there.
Then you can go back and register
register another group of settings say for panning, 1/80s,
f7.1 then you go back to menu, save user settings and save to U2.
In the newer models, Nikon did it a a little bit differently and they
took away the U1 and U2 and they replaced it with photo shooting menu banks.
Now you have four photo shooting menu banks.
A, B, C and D and in each one of those you can
save a certain group of settings, If you go into your menu.
(I'm demonstrating it's on a d850) If you go into your menu,
your photo shooting menu, which is your second one down.
You'll see right at the top is photo shooting menu bank A.
If you go in there you can choose between A, B, C or D.
That basically means that that group of settings under A
is that everything under this photo shooting menu bank
will be registered under A. So your image quality. Your secondary slot
function. Your file naming. Your storage folder.
All of these settings under your photo shooting menu will be registered under
photo shooting menu bank A.
So if you then go and select B everything that you set under
photo shooting menu bank B you can change here and it will
stay registered with the B menu bank.
I'll be showing you how to save your settings to A, B, C and D
and how to access them very quickly.
The first thing that you have to do that's really important is to switch on
extended photo menu banks. The reason you have to do this is so
that your shooting mode as well as your shutter speed settings.
or your aperture settings, depending on which mode you're shooting on,
gets carried through as well from bank to bank.
Otherwise, it's only going to register
all of these settings and not your shooting mode and your
shutter speeds and your apertures if you want to change that.
if you leave extended photo menu banks off
it means that it won't change your shutter speed your aperture and your
mode that you're shooting in from your A to your B when you when you
change over. So very important switch your extended
photo menu banks on. Now you can check which one you're in by
either going into your photo shooting menu here
or on your back screen. You can see on the left it says shoot
B over here and that basically means that you're in photo menu bank B
Then basically i'm in B now so for or let's change i'm going to change
to A quickly. OK so now i'm in photo shooting menu bank A.
Now generally I like my wildlife shots
to be taken at 1/2500s at f8
and I do shoot at -0.3 generally speaking. That's my general setting.
Also my iso I'd like to have my ISO
in auto so let's just take my ISO to auto.
Right, so that's going to be my, don't worry about the flashing meters
it's my lens cap is on, so that's going to be my general
settings for wildlife. Fast shooting wildlife. Now I'm going to
change to photo shooting menu bank B and that's
going to be my panning settings so it's at 1/80s, f7.1
and I'm going to change it to zero exposure, auto ISO still the same,
So, that's what I like to be at for
for my panning. So now my A is set up as quick shooting wildlife.
There you go and my B is set up as my panning.
So how do i know which one is which? Click on photo shooting menu bank.
Go into the A by pressing right and then on the d850
I can either use my touch screen. Say wildlife.
All right and OK. So now I can remember that's for wildlife.
B go down and press right and then if you don't have a touchscreen
just use it the normal way by clicking right and left and enter.
So I'm going to make this my panning one.
There you go and should you have one for example landscape setting
you go and name it landscape.
And there you have three options and
each time you change you know which one you're changing to. Now it's a little bit
tedious to go into your menu every time when you want to change it and that sort
of defeats the points of having to change it quickly. So there is a way
of changing this on a shortcut with a shortcut on your camera.
I like to set up my little Pv button over here as my shortcut to
access photo shooting menu banks. In your menu go down to custom setting
menu and then you go to f1 custom control assignment
and make sure that your preview button your Pv button
is registered as photo shooting menu bank. There are lots of
options here that you can choose from. Now the reason I don't choose Pv is
because you want to use your command dial at the back
together with your pv to switch between banks.
So set your the preview button plus command dial one
and make sure it says photo shooting menu bank.
You can also set your Fn1 button
to photo shooting menu banks, I just prefer my Pv because it's the one
above the Fn-1 button but you can choose
either one as your shortcut. So that's how I set up my custom
settings or photo shooting menu banks to switch quickly between settings.
There's a lot more going on in photo shooting menu banks
but basically to change between groups of settings and this is what i like to
do between for my panning and my general wildlife photography.
I hope that helped you. If you have any
questions please leave them in the comment section
below and I'll chat to you.
Until next time bye-bye.