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5.7 DRIVE MODE

Menu Position MENU  2 Drive Mode

What it Does Lets you specify how the camera behaves if you keep your
finger held down on the shutter release button

Recommended Setting “Single” as the default setting for day-to-day use,
unless I’m shooting kids or sports, in which case it’s “Continuous” (hi or lo)

Constraints Not selectable if you’re in High Dynamic Range (HDR) mode or
Multi-Frame Noise Reduction (MFNR) mode

The term “Drive” is
derived from the old
“motor drive” accessory
from the film camera days,
and is used now to
generally specify how the
camera advances shot-to-
shot. There are three ways
to invoke the Drive Mode Figure 5-9: The drive mode button and screen.
menu: The first is via the
Fn menu, the second is via MENU  2  Drive Mode and the third
(and most convenient) is to push the dedicated Drive mode button - Figure
5-9a).
Once there you can then use the UP and DOWN of the Multi-Selector (or
turn the front control wheel) to select from several options. In some cases,
once you choose a drive mode you can tweak its characteristics by using
the LEFT and RIGHT multi-selector positions. The various modes are
described below.

TIP: The Drive mode menu is greyed out if you’re in HDR (Section 13.2) or
MFNR mode (Section 3.5.2). In those modes you can only shoot one at a time.