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Note that you can quickly change the functions allocated to a button (but not an icon) by pressing and
holding the button until the ‘Button Set’ screen appears and then selecting a function.
3. Configure the Q.MENU
I recommend mapping the functions shown in Table 1 to the Q.MENU:
• Ensure that Q.MENU on the REC menu is set to CUSTOM, so you can program the Q.MENU.
• Press the Q.MENU button to display the quick menu.
• Press the down cursor button or touch the EDIT Q icon at the lower left of the display.
• Accept the instructions, if they are displayed, by pressing SET/MENU or half pressing the shutter.
• Drag functions from those available in the top panel to where you want them in the bottom panel. The
top panel has four pages of available functions. The bottom panel has the same three pages as the
Q.MENU. If you drop a function over one already present on the bottom panel then the existing one
will be moved back to the top panel.
• Drag any function you want to delete from the Q.MENU from the bottom panel and drop it in anywhere
on the top panel.
• Press EXIT or half press the shutter button to complete programming the Q.MENU.
4. Configure the CUSTOM modes
Any changes you make to the function settings for the PASM and iA exposure modes are retained as you
switch between these modes and when you turn the camera off. This has the advantage that you don’t
lose any changes you make. However, it can be hard to remember where you left the settings and you
may have a lot of changes to make for a new situation.
You can store 3 sets of function settings away as custom modes. Changes you make to the function
settings of a custom mode are NOT retained as you switch between modes or switch power off. When
you return to a custom mode the settings will be as you last saved them for that mode.
Note that you cannot, for example, start from a custom mode using aperture priority (A) exposure mode
and change to shutter priority (S) exposure mode. It is therefore worth programming a custom mode for
each of the exposure modes that you use regularly. As the G7 only supports 3 custom modes, I suggest
that you allocate either program (P) or aperture priority (A) exposure mode to custom mode C
1
; manual
(M) exposure mode to C
2
; and shutter-speed priority (S) exposure mode to C
3
, as in Table 11.
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