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

[LoveWeims]

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? 

[shadowsports]

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.

[John_SD]

"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.

[stevet1]

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

[kvbarkley]

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.

[LoveWeims]

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

[LoveWeims]

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

[p4pictures]

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.

[LoveWeims]

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

[kvbarkley]

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.