A Second Simple Tip To Potentially Save You Aggravation

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Here is a word of advice.  If your camera or associated manufacturer's software gives you the ability and opportunity to save your camera's settings—DO IT!  Having all of your settings saved can save you a lot of time and aggravation if, per chance, the camera is reset for various reasons.

A quick example:  Recently, my Olympus E-M1 Mark II had to go back to Olympus for a shutter failure.  Not only did Olympus replace my shutter, they checked and adjusted all functions to meet factory specifications, replaced some of the simulated leather cover, lubricated what needed to be lubricated and, overall, gave me back pretty much a brand new camera.  However—the camera was reset to factory defaults as though I just bought it new.  I had to go in and set the language, time, etc.  

In the past, I had spent a lot of time setting up the camera exactly as I wanted it, including the Custom Settings (C1, C2, C3).  Did I have to go through each menu item and each custom setting and reconfigure then entire thing?  No, I didn't.  I had preciously saved my settings in Olympus Updater software so I simply attached the camera to my computer, opened up the software and reloaded everything.  Instantly, everything was exactly as it was before I sent it to Olympus.  Needless to say, I was smiling.

There are other situations that can cause your camera to fully reset to factory specs.  First, you may choose to do it yourself if you are having issues and you just want to bring all settings to factory default to see if the problem is corrected.  Second, with some cameras, when you load major firmware updates, it will reset all of your settings to factory default.  Third, as in my example, you have to send your camera for repair getting back a camera reset to defaults.

Here are a few of the most popular brands of cameras today and how they handle saving camera settings.

Fujifilm uses X Acquire software to allow you to save your settings.

Olympus, as I mentioned, uses their Updater or Olympus Workspace software to save settings.

Nikon has a menu item, Save/Load Settings, that allow you to save most of your settings to a memory card which can be transferred to your computer.

Canon and Sony use the same method as Nikon

If you own cameras from different manufacturers, you might want to check if you can save your settings and how it is accomplished.

Save yourself aggravation.  Save your settings.  You may be thankful that you have!

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Dennis A. Mook 

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