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274 “Custom” (Gear icon) Menu Settings

TIP 1: Peaking Level = HI is almost essential when zoomed in and using the
Focus Magnifier function (Section 5.27). For some reason the peaking level
highlights barely show in this mode unless the contrast is exceptionally high
(even in-focus items won’t always show it).
TIP 2: For reasons I’ll never understand, the Peaking Level function doesn’t
work if your camera is attached to an external screen via the HDMI cable. (I
discovered this while giving a seminar and wanting to show the audience how
cool Peaking Level was. That pretty much destroyed my credibility with them.
 )
TIP 3: Some think that Peaking Level is easiest to use when your image is
B&W. So if you set Creative Styles to B/W and shoot RAW+JPG, you can focus
/ compose in B&W and have your color image too!

The second menu setting is MENU  2  Peaking Color  [Choose
from Red, White, or Yellow]. Why would you choose one color over
another? If you’re shooting a subject that’s red, then it’ll be hard to see the
Peaking Level splotches if this function is set to “red”. (Kind of obvious.)
I personally keep this set to yellow most of the time since that color is the
easiest to see in most shooting situations. I’ll switch it to something else if
there’s a conflict.

This Peaking Level feature is extremely handy when shooting movies in
Manual Focusing mode. It is also very useful when combined with the
DMF function as described earlier at the end of Section 2.3.

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