

You can make adjustments to ISO, shooting mode, frame rate etc using the control dials with your forefinger and thumb. This simply switches the rear screen to quick menu where you navigate using the joystick. Just to the left of the RAW/JPEG button is another new addition, the quick menu (Q) button.

Excellent addition and again, just in the right place and so much more useful than the DP button on older EOS models.

The next, single shot will be recorded in both formats. This alerts you that you are about to take one of each.įor example, if you are shooting in just RAW or JPEG but for just one shot you wish to shoot both, press this button. When pressed, both RAW and JPEG flash on the top LCD screen. RAW/JPEGĪs I said earlier, the old "direct print" button still has that capability but the default use is now a RAW/JPEG button. Very useful and quick to locate once you have used it a few times. You press the usual AF focus selector point with your thumb on the to-right-rear of the camera and use the M-Fn button to switch between focus points and AF area (spot, single point, point expansion, etc). However, the default setting is used for selecting the focus points (also becomes FEL – flash exposure lock – button when flash attached). This is customisable like most other buttons. One difference to most other Canon cameras on the top plate is the addition of a multi-function (M-Fn) button. Hot-shoe and eye dioptre in the same place. Great placement and a big improvement in my opinion (and there are a lot of those on this page).

Even though it is solid, it still has a fluid and reassuring feel when you use it. This is large, solid and not easily moved by mistake (great for using the camera with gloves on). Just to the rear of this dial is the new ON/OFF button. It's on the 5D Mark II as well so was to be expected. Mostly for "getting out of dodge" when you simply can't think quickly enough. I must admit, the "little green square" (full auto) is still there which some people may find useful.
