(LINKS BELOW): Here’s my Z8 full menu and custom controls rundown. In it I explain how to use and backup the camera’s Shooting and Custom Settings Banks and show how I set up Bank A for standard shooting. This is the longer of two videos. In the next, I’ll walk through how I tweak those settings in banks B-D for Action, Landscape and Astro.
LINKED TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Intro to this setup guide
03:12 Menu settings you should change right away
04:24 How the Z8 Banks work and how to back them up
07:02 Banks are like bookmarks not fixed settings
08:45 Protecting your saved settings when formatting
10:10 Photo Shooting Menu setup
22:58 Interval timer shooting for time-lapse
24:15 Focus shift shooting for focus stacking
26:05 Video Recording Menu setup
31:24 Custom Settings Menu (Autofocus)
36:12 Custom Settings Menu (Metering/exposure)
38:02 Custom Settings Menu (Timers/AE lock)
38:52 Custom Settings Menu (Shooting/display)
45:38 Customize LCD and viewfinder displays
47:55 Custom Settings Menu (Bracketing/flash)
49:25 Custom controls: i-menu
50:51 Custom controls: shooting (recall shooting func)
57:22 Custom controls: playback
01:00:02 Custom Settings Menu (Video)
01:05:14 Playback Menu Setup
01:08:52 Setup Menu
01:16:52 Network Menu Setup
01:17:20 My Menu Setup
Nikon Z8 Review Video Pros and Cons: https://youtu.be/HP70UmXxCso
Nikon Z8 Action, Landscape & Astro Setup Video: https://youtu.be/W31tyl8f3C8
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