Camera tip: use your My Menu

Thursday 2 July 2020, 22:44 by Nando Harmsen | 4,382 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

The possibilities offered by a modern digital camera are almost endless. All those functions need a place in the camera's menu. Try designing a good structure for that. It is very difficult, and sometimes almost impossible.

Although some manufacturers manage to put together a good and reasonably usable menu, others continue to fail miserably at this. Fortunately, almost every manufacturer has a solution to this almost impossible problem: the "My Menu."

Modern digital cameras have so many functions that it can sometimes take a lot of searching to find that one setting again.

In "My Menu", you can collect the menu options you use most, and that you cannot or do not want to assign to a button when customising your camera. For example, I put the battery information, formatting my memory card, the Wi-Fi setting, a bulb timer, and the brightness of my LCD screen there.

The My Menu I set up for my review of this Canon EOS R camera. The most frequently used settings within easy reach.

The functions I put in "My Menu" are the things I personally use a lot, which is why it has literally become "My Menu". Your collection of functions may be completely different, so it will become your menu.

"My Menu" can have different names, depending on the camera manufacturer. They may also look different, or be built into the camera system in a different way. Some are very extensive, while others are limited to just a few functions.

The My Menu of a Fujifilm GFX-50s, for the most frequently used functions

Whatever your camera is like, look it up in the manual if you do not know where to find it or how to set it up, and make use of it. It can certainly help you use your camera and with your photography.

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About the author

Nando Harmsen has been photographing for more than 40 years. He specialises in wedding photography and landscape photography. Nando also gives talks, workshops, masterclasses and photo trips, and regularly reviews new and interesting equipment.

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