EOS R5 Mark II - button customization

[A_Random_Dude]

Hi, folks: I'm going through the process of setting up my new R5 Mk II. I'd love to be able to assign a button to enable/disable pre-continuous shooting, but I know that's not possible yet. (Hopefully in a future firmware update it will be.) Based on comments people have made, I thought that assigning the DOF preview button to My Menu, where I have pre-cont. shooting registered, would be a quick solution.

However, I can't seem to find a way to set the button to go directly to My Menu. There's an option for Menu, but what that does is just bring up the most recent menu looked at, whatever the tab. So I'm wondering, is there a way to assign the DOF button to go DIRECTLY to My Menu so I can quickly enable/disable pre-cont. shooting?

Thanks in advance!

[Waddizzle]

If you say that it can’t be done, then I’ll take your word for it.  

In fact, I doubt if it will could be added in a future firmware update.  You have to take the camera’s current operating mode into consideration.  

You wish would mean changing the camera from one mode to another, perhaps shooting to menu.  I’m unaware of any controls that change the camera operating mode.  

[A_Random_Dude]

I suppose I can take the approach that I'm usually only messing with menu settings when I'm at home and setting things up; when out shooting I use the Q button. So, I could just make sure that I select My Menu prior to shooting, and then I can access it immediately and toggle pre-cont. shooting. My main reason for wanting to do this is that as a lot of other people pointed out, having pre-cont. always on will result in an absurd amount of images.

[p4pictures · Accepted solution]

You can configure the My Menu settings so that it displays the My Menu first or only shows the My Menu. 

On the My Menu setup page - the one you can't change - there is an entry Menu display. By default it is set to Normal, which means that when the menu button is pressed the camera goes to the last menu page it displayed. The other two options are Display from My Menu tab, and Display only My Menu tab. If you select Display from My Menu tab, then when the menu button is pressed - or your depth of field button - then the green My Menu is displayed. If you select Display only My Menu tab, then all the other menu sections are hidden from the display.

Check this part of the manual

https://cam.start.canon/en/C017/manual/html/UG-09_Custom_0050.html#Custom_0050_5

[A_Random_Dude]

Thanks so much! That's exactly what I was looking for. I do have the 1000+ page manual (the one specific to firmware 1.0.2), but I confess, sometimes it's not very easy to find things, even when doing searches in Acrobat. Using your solutions, all I needed to do was just set it for Display from My Menu, and then make sure my enable/disable pre-continuous entry was displayed on the first tab of My Menu. I just checked it out and sure enough, I can go to any menu I like, but when I press the DOF button, it now goes directly to what I want to see. If Canon does at some point update things to the point where pre-cont. can be assigned to a button, then great. But this will certainly do the trick for now. Very much obliged!

[p4pictures]

I know what you mean about the 1000 page manual. One of the challenges, even using the search function, is knowing the term to search for 😁

[A_Random_Dude]

Ay, there's the rub (as a famous gent once wrote): I rarely seem to find the correct term. That's why I'm grateful that this forum exists. It's a tremendous resource when experts are willing to share their expertise with others.