Canon 5D MK3

How can you change the shooting mode (AV,TV) in a custom setting (C1,C2,C3)?

Not a joke, right? That's not a custom menu. It's a dial on top of the camera.

Unless, perhaps, you are referring to how you save the settings into one of the custom slots?

If that is the case, if I recall correctly, you set your camera to all the settings you want to store and then go into the menu and somewhere it will allow you to save the current settings into one of the custom slots. (I think - it has been a while since I did it on my 5DII)

Eactly: set up camera as you want it then go to menu and save in custom settings - I am quite impressed by this feature it saves more things than I expected (e.g. back focus button option)

Welcome to the Forum BTW!

Not aimed soley at you but a bit more detail in the thread title would be good

Martin Dixon wrote in post #15012678
Eactly: set up camera as you want it then go to menu and save in custom settings - I am quite impressed by this feature it saves more things than I expected (e.g. back focus button option)

Bingo. You just set up everything the way you want and then save it to a C slot in the menu. You then choose the C setting from the top dial to recall those settings. As Martin has mentioned, these custom profiles save a lot of settings, not just your aperture, ISO, and shutter speed - it saves your AF mode and settings (which is useful if you want to save a particular position of a focus point and/or use orientation-tethered focus points, which it also saves), metering mode, and other preferences.

Martin Dixon wrote in post #15012682
Welcome to the Forum BTW!

Not aimed soley at you but a bit more detail in the thread title would be good

I see it all the time where the relevant info doesn't come out until the 10th post. Life goes on... ; )

It would be nice to be able to change the shooting mode in the custom setting though.

For instance, I have settings for a tripod - MLU, LV settings like grids, ISO100, bracketing etc.. in M mode and I want to keep all those, but change to Av (or the other way around). I can change all the other settings I just mentioned (and any other one I can think of) when in my custom setting and it will just go back to my saved settings, so why not be able to change shooting mode too? Could be done in the quick-view menu, there's no conflict with the top dial so why not?

Basically you can't. To put the camera in Av mode, you have to move the dial away from the custom setting. The only workaround I can think of is to set up the camera the way you want two ways, one in M and one with Av and save both to a custom setting. Then you can swap between the two custom settings, and all you will be effectively changing is from M to Av and vice versa.

MKEjim43 wrote in post #15010675
How can you change the shooting mode (AV,TV) in a custom setting (C1,C2,C3)?

im sure this is a 1st, Last and only post