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I'd imagine he was talking about custom banks. I don't have time to go through it now, but if no-one's posted anything by the time I've got some time I'll post what I know
Thanks, or if anyone can point me to that part of the video where Steve talks about it I'd be grateful.
Looked through loads of his videos to try and find it, with no luck.
OK so here's what I know about custom banks. There are two customisable banks, photo shooting menu bank and camera settings bank. The photo shooting bank allows you to store 4 'memory banks' using the different settings in the photo shooting menu which is the option in the main menu system under the camera picture icon (2nd icon down on left hand side). Such things in this menu are file naming, primary slot selection, image quality, Picture control, high ISO NR etc etc. If you enable extended photo banks this also allows you to store exposure modes (such as Aperture priority and manual modes) and also your exposure settings (such as a specific shutter speed, aperture etc). Unfortunately it doesn't save AF mode. I have Photo shooting Bank A named "Normal" where I have my general everyday settings (aperture priority, Auto ISO, 14 bit lossless compressed and a host of other things). The second bank is labelled Sports/Wildlife and differs from "normal" in that the mode is Manual with a shutter speed of 1/1000 and usually with the aperture wide open. I have another bank labelled "landscape" where the only variations are that I have ISO set to 64 (as opposed to auto) and WB set to Auto 1 as opposed to Auto 2. It is set to Aperture priority but the aperture is set to f8. The last bank is set to "12 bit sports" where the only variation from "Sports/Wildlife" is that it uses 12 bit lossless compressed files rather than 14 bit lossless compressed. I use 12 bit when I know I'm going to be doing some heavy shooting to keep file size down and improve the buffer.
The second set of banks as previously mentioned is the Camera settings bank. This allows you to save any settings under the custom setting menu (pencil icon in the menu system). Here you can save a heap of stuff such as autofocus settings (but alas as already mentioned you can't save autofocus modes such as AF-S, AF-C single point etc etc). I have 3 banks saved, "normal", "BBF" and "3d face detection". There's not a lot of variation between these settings for me, as most of the settings under "normal" are what I use most of the time. BBF as the name suggests means that this bank is set so that the camera uses back button focus in this mode. 3D face detection bank is set so that face detection is used when using 3D autofocus.
By have these two types of banks it gives me 12 different possibilities (if I had 4 banks saved in the custom settings banks I'd then have 16 possibilities). For example I could have photo shooting bank "normal" with custom bank "normal", or photo shooting bank "normal" with custom setting bank "BBF" etc etc. You have quick access to both of these banks by pressing the 'I' button on the back of the camera.
Coming from the D750 I didn't like this system at first, but that was mainly because you couldn't save exposure settings (aperture, shutter ISO) at first and I thought what's the point in these banks if you can't save basic info like that. However, after discovering that turning on the extended banks does allow these things to be saved it's now much more useful. The only thing that I don't like is that if you change a setting in one of your banks it keeps this setting and doesn't revert to your previously saved setting. I preferred the D750's memory system in this regard in that if you were in a memory bank (U1/U2) and changed something (such as change shutter from your saved 1/1000 to 1/250), the next time you went back to that memory bank it would have reverted back to 1/1000.
Not sure if this is what you were referring to, if not hopefully someone will find it useful. If it's not what you are referring to and there's another way to save settings and jump from one to the other then please share it if you find it as I'm not aware of anything
Edit: Just had a quick look at some of his videos and didn't find anything about custom banks. Are you sure it was one of his videos and you hadn't accidentally gone onto something else? Sorry if I'm teaching you to suck eggs here but you can view your youtube history so it might be worth going back through that to see if you can find it?
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