User Preset buttons - Build 16

[Jarred Land]

Ok, here is an oportunity for you guys to make a difference.

Build 16 finally lets you customize those A/B User buttons on the side of the camera and on the EVF... and man let me tell you, its sure nice having those buttons do what you want them to do.

So here is my question to you... what settings/functions would you like to see on the menu for those buttons to adjust?

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[Warren Kommers]

-expanded focus is a good one. perhaps a 100% as many have mentioned.

-quick change to a user determined frame rate. one thing i loved about the scene files on a HVX is how quickly you could change frame rates. say something spontaneous/unpredictable happens and bam you got it at 120fps or 60.

 

[Christian Berg]

hi jarred! is it one feature per button? or can we press it multiple times for more features on the same button? like a loop of features that takes you back to zero after like"5"features.

i would like false color, false color focus, for one button.
zoom 50% 100% on the other button.

Good Luck!

 

[Salem Kapic]

Please, don't touch any preset buttons! Maybe remove White balance from "1" :sarcasm:
thanks

 

[Jarred Land]

hi jarred! is it one feature per button? or can we press it multiple times for more features on the same button? like a loop of features that takes you back to zero after like"5"features.

i would like false color, false color focus, for one button.
zoom 50% 100% on the other button.

Good Luck!

one per button.. but the EVF has 4 buttons.

 

[Fredrik Callinggard]

A quick option to change back on forth with either:

framerate
Speed ramp
shutter

Depending on what you've set as an extra option in your menu. This is so you can swap between either of these three from preference during shooting.

You should have a confirmation though, so you don't accidentally shoot the wrong speed for example, but that could be a simple press ok.

Fredrik

 

[ckarcher]

Hi Jarred,


A:

How about being able to switch from one preset format to another as a quick toggle?

example: 4k 2:1 <------> 3K 2:1 @ 50 FPS.

We often shoot wide shots in 4K, then inserts @ 3K (overcranked) on quicker setups.


B:
A toggle for various monitor settings: focus assist/overlay <-----> RGB histogram ( since current build does not allow both on-screen at the same time)

 

[Mike Prevette]

Umm. . . all of them?

Jumping through some preset framerates would be huge.

EDIT: Ramp trigger would be cool.

I would love to take it a step further and actually get to "write my own menu" IE give us a list of options and let us write an XML file that puts our favorite menu options all on one menu page that we could bring it up from one of the user preset buttons.

 

[hunterrichards]

ramp trigger would be great!

 

[Warren Kommers]

i would like false color, false color focus, for one button.
zoom 50% 100% on the other button.
!

These are all good ones but I figure these could be integrated into the EVF or LCD buttons as they are mostly display related instead of camera operations.

Unless only so much can be customizable and they need to go here.

 

[Mike Prevette]

I would be scared about putting any "format changes" onto the user buttons. It's to easy to screw things up if you can easily switch into 2k when you just meant to zoom in on the monitor.

 

[Warren Kommers]

I would be scared about putting any "format changes" onto the user buttons. It's to easy to screw things up if you can easily switch into 2k when you just meant to zoom in on the monitor.

well it's too bad that resolution is so attached to fps currently. however it is really obvious to me when Ive gone to 3k or 2k by field of view. Also there could be a good way to indicate it in the display.

plus you as the user decide to take that risk when you choose to do it. that's the beauty of user programmable. i understand your concern though. it's worth it to me to have quick access to alt. fps at the push of a button rather than putting the camera down to go thorough menus. at least for verite stuff.

 

[Jarred Land]

Hi Jarred,


B:
A toggle for various monitor settings: focus assist/overlay <-----> RGB histogram ( since current build does not allow both on-screen at the same time)

i really, really like this one...

 

[Shawn Bannon]

i'm with you guys on the various monitor settings for sure.

 

[Warren Kommers]

Jarred,

Does it seem like it may be possible in future builds for say.......... the EVF to be "normal" and the LCD for the 1st AC to be in "colored edge focus"? Do the display pathways allow that separation?

 

[Casey Green]

Hi Jarred,

thanks for this thread.

I would like to see the 2 buttons on the side be able to be programmed from the list below:

Auto White Balance (already there)
Zoom Monitor Output (already there)
False Color Mode (!!!!!)
Monochrome Mode
Luma Histogram
RGB Histogram
Focus Assist
Focus Overlay
Toggle Lookup Table
Toggle Frame Guides
Toggle Camera Mode (It would be great if you could load and save complete Camera mode settings so you can quickly change settings and share settings between multiple Cameras, such as FrameRates, Shutter settings, etc.)

Also, this may have been mentioned already, admittedly, I haven't read all the posts so far...

Since there are only 2 buttons, maybe they could have combinations that allow more than one setting per button. (Hold down for 3 seconds and it enables another feature or hold down both to trigger another mode.) Also, perhaps the A, B, C, user buttons can be customized as well in addition to the EVF user buttons and LCD buttons.

thanks again for asking for feedback on this.

 

[Kjetil Haugen]

Get false color in there and I'm happy.

(could one of the buttons have a funny sound? So that when people are down and depressed on set, you push the button and everybody's happy again. Maybe a donkey will do it...)

 

[Mark Allen]

Is there a way to add or enable a "double click" option on the button to allow for expanded modes?

click - focus assist comes on
click - focus assist off..

but..

click - focus assist comes on
click click - the next option comes on
click click - then next one (etc.)
click - back to nothing

 

[Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock]

One button to cycle through prefered exposure assistances (false color -> waveform -> Spot meter -> clean.)

One button to cycle through prefered focus assistances (edge enhancement->focus overlay -> focus assist -> clean)

One EVF /LCD button to cycle through image magnification (Full frame -> 2x -> 1:1)

What about the softkeys in the back? I can reformat cards blindfolded. I could put those ABC buttons to better use.

All the best,

Jochen

 

[Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock]

Since there are only 2 buttons, maybe they could have combinations that allow more than one setting per button. .

Yep, like the eject shortcut.

Jochen