MLU & the 5D2 using C1?

I need expert guidance on my 5D2, I am finding the manual worse than useless in the vague information it provides.

I would like to set up mirror lock up as a standard setting on one of the "C" modes (there are three - C1, C2 & C3), so that I'm not having to wade through the crazy custom function list, while struggling to understand the manual out in the pouring rain. I'm sure you get the picture.

Can some kind soul slowly tick off each step I need to follow one by one? Sorry I'm so daft about this.

1. Go into the Custom Functions menu (Brown coloured group), go down to C.FnIII, go to option 6, and enable Mirror Lockup.
2. Make any other changes that you want to save to your Custom User setting (C1, etc) - it will save a whole lot of other stuff, such as Mode, Aperture, Shutter etc, as well as the Mirror Lock up setting.
3. Go to the third of the Utility Menus (cacky yellow group), go into Camera User Settings, select Register, then select and store your current settings into whichever User Setting you wish.

Personally, I prefer to register the Mirror Lockup setting as one of my quick select options in the My Menu list (Green menu group) - see page 205 of the User Manual - that way I can turn MLU on or off and not change any of my current settings.

Cheers!

Yeah, move the selector off the Cx mode and adjust everything you want on the camera for, say, C1...including mode, all your custom functions, etc.

When ready to save, do the "Camera User Settings", "Register" and select "C1" (or whichever one you want to save the settings to)...and you're done.

Thanks to you both for your expertise, I really am daft about some things & computers are high on the list!

So to get this straight. I set things up as I want them, and only after that do I then tell the camera that I want this in (say) C1? I don't need to pre-warn the camera that the CF change I'm about to make will need to be put into C1?

Having set up C1, do I then have to reverse the CF setting back to normal when NOT in C1?

Up date:

I've been playing with the camera this evening after tea. I've set it up in My Menu & practised enabling and disabling it a dozen times. I've also written a little crib-sheet which I'm planning to laminate and keep with the camera for quick reference if I forget.

Again, very many thanks.

MLU has been passé since the introduction of Live View five years ago. Why go through all the bother of menus or custom settings when you can get MLU by pushing one little button? Just push the button located to the left of the viewfinder (on the 5D2) and the mirror flies up and Live View turns on. Not only do you have no mirror slap, you also get the bonus of seeing what the camera is pointed at.

Elie,

Thanks for contributing.

This camera is very new to me and I've still not fired a "shot in anger" with it a month after purchase. (I'm still convalescing but its now 25 days without incident -Yah!).

I don't understand why I find Canon manuals so difficult. I am a practical type with a technical electrical career behind me but I find almost everything in the manual either poorly explained or virtually ignored.

Edited to add: I've just waded through page 108 of the manual and you are right, once its set up its amazingly simple to select and deselect. Thats as good as my old Nikons used to be with their one button push MLU.

Richard, you are going to love Live View. A lot of people still today, 5 years after the 1D3, dismiss it as some sort of foreign gimmick that sullies the purity of the SLR experience. Too like a P & S. I think they are nuts. It is an benefit from the "digital revolution" right up with instant review and the digital darkroom. It is much more than one-button MLU. I use its histogram constantly as my light meter.
Here is a good article, although he doesn't entirely understand how to use the histogram:
http://www.ianplant.co​m …ew-nature-photography.htm