topic Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7 in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

LoveWeims — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:00:19 GMT

EOS R7 with current firmware: I have downloaded the 900+ page user guide on my PC and my phone, and it is very useful. However, I am not fond of the amount of time I am spending trying to FIND a setting (e.g., even something simple like battery level) especially since I am still learning how to use the camera and all its potential applications.

I am tempted to take photos of each screen for each setting on the dial (e.g, AE, Fv, etc) so I can more quickly figure out where THAT one setting I am looking for actually is.

OR...better...does this exist already on the Canon site?

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

shadowsports — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:25:37 GMT

Greetings,

I think the information you are looking for already exists in the R7's User Guide:

Canon : Product Manual : EOS R7 : Tab Menus: Set-up (start.canon)

Its easily searchable too. If this is not what you're looking for, let us know.

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

John_SD — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:37:59 GMT

"I have downloaded the 900+ page user guide on my PC and my phone, and it is very useful. However, I am not fond of the amount of time I am spending trying to FIND a setting"

OK.

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

stevet1 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:56:34 GMT

LoveWeims,

You wrote:

"I am tempted to take photos of each screen for each setting on the dial (e.g, AE, Fv, etc) so I can more quickly figure out where THAT one setting I am looking for actually is."

I think that this would be pretty impractical. In the one example that Rick provided, there are 35 pages of settings, and that's just in one Menu tab. There are 7 Menu tabs. If each had the same 35 pages of settings, that's 245 pages. They don't all have 35 pages, of course, but it would be a hefty exercise, non the less.

Steve Thomas

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

kvbarkley — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:02:26 GMT

Especially since the menus are context sensitive.

It would look like the TV trope of the conspiracy theorists' wall with hundreds of pictures and red circles and lines connecting various items.

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

LoveWeims — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:42:03 GMT

Yes. I have considered the work involved but i am a warrior.

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

LoveWeims — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:42:51 GMT

Yes….it would…but that's what it is regardless

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

p4pictures — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:49:14 GMT

I think the only option is to make the images yourself. Over the years I have captured a selection of the menu screens for many different cameras, but only parts of them that were relevant to what I was doing at the time. I currently use a hardware HDMI capture device Black Magic Design UltraStudio Recorder and their Media Express software. In some cases I have been required to capture the same screens in 17 different language variants. I can tell you that Arabic is the challenge as the menu order reverses to read from right to left!

You will be aware that some displays depend on other settings and this adds to the task. The screens also change for movie mode and when the A+ or scene modes are used. Even the instruction manual does not go to the depth that is possible for customising a button such as AF-ON.

If you were to capture such displays, I think you may find there are more screens to read through than pages in the manual.

These are the same screen from an EOS R6 Mark II, one in English and the other Arabic. In fact all the languages except Arabic, use left to right layout so once you know where something is then it is possible to find it in most languages providing you remember the location of every menu item not just scan for the words.

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

LoveWeims — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:59:08 GMT

Thank you. Not sure how anyone keeps all these choices in a human brain

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

kvbarkley — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:17:26 GMT

They don't, that is why they have a menu system where they present you with a list of options. Imagine if it was a CLI system where you had to *really* know what option you wanted (and how to spell it!) to get it.

With a well designed menu, as long as you know what you are looking for, you should be able to find it. And Canon, unlike some others *cough*Sony*cough, has been praised for its consistent and logically thought out menus.

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

LoveWeims — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:05:35 GMT

Thank you! I am suffering from info overload - wish there were an AI feature to help with the learning (aka “the hard way”) curve.

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

kvbarkley — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:33:24 GMT

If ChatGPT has ingested the Canon manuals, you might be able to ask it questions like "Tell me how to do HDR on an R3"

Of course, it might hallucinate and tell you how to do it on a Sony, while insisting the instructions were for Canon...

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

Waddizzle — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:53:55 GMT

I suggest setting up custom menus with your most commonly used settings.

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

LoveWeims — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:14:27 GMT

Agree! I just have to figure out what those are. Have had the camera for 14 days…

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

LoveWeims — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:15:21 GMT

Haha glad i did not even consider a Sony. Did look at Nikon tho….

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

p4pictures — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:05:32 GMT

I think the answer is practice and a lot of familiarity. I once ran a workshop in Helsinki and used my EOS 5D Mark IV set to Finnish language when explaining AF and all the WiFi settings even though I don't speak or understand Finnish. At a coffee break one of the attendees asked me if I did speak Finnish as I had been 100% correct when I was navigating and explaining settings from the camera menu.

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

LoveWeims — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:14:33 GMT

Wow! Impressive! An idea jelled - feed the EOS R7 manual to AI…then let us ask AI questions!

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

Waddizzle — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 20:34:19 GMT

@LoveWeims wrote:

Agree! I just have to figure out what those are. Have had the camera for 14 days…

Use the ⭐️ menu. You will need to learn by trial and error. It is covered in the User Guide, but there will still be some trial and error involved. For example, I don’t think the manual tells you that you cannot use the same menu item more than once.

It takes a little planning, too. I have one Custom Menu screen with camera status info, like battery health and memory card free space. I have another menu setup with wireless configuration options. I have another set up with AF options and another for exposure options.

Re: Is there one place where I can see screen prints of all the setting options for an EOS R7

LoveWeims — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 20:42:24 GMT

Thank you. Good ideas. I am learning about customization but still fumbling around before i even know what to program