C1, C2, C3 - What are your presets for a wedding?

Thinking about this the other day and I still don't think I make enough use of my C1 - 3 preset on the thumbwheel, so what do you set your presets to on your primary camera? Assuming a standard church ceremony with no flash, followed by a reception and party.

No such thing as standard I know, but it would probably take forever to list every preset you've ever used.

None. I've never used a preset.

Possibly 'Preset' was the wrong word.

What I meant was which custom settings do you assign to the c1, c2 or c3 slot on the thumbwheel.

I am more interested in answers from people who do use this feature rather than those who do not.

The green square.

LarryPlane wrote in post #17649007
...I am more interested in answers from people who do use this feature rather than those who do not.

This made me laugh.

I'm also interested in this question. Ive never used them but im curious to see how others have in this situation. I really cant see how i would.

UPDATE
I found this online: "Since most video shoots require at least two cameras (sometimes three or four), having the same camera settings prerecorded on each camera allows users to efficiently and quickly access features they want to use, as well as avoid critical mistakes, like shooting at different resolutions. Keep in mind, of course, that this can also be used for still-image shooting. The Camera User Settings simply let you instantly dial-in a known starting point of pre-determined settings, for certain shooting situations."

With this in mind, i figure one can dial in the settings prior to the wedding if you have access to the locations the wedding will be at (example C1 for the ceremony location, C2 for the location of where the wedding group photos will be at and C3 for the reception location)

I have Nikon so I have U1 and U2, and I do use them at lot of weddings. Especially if I'm going between two very different lighting setups.

If the ceremony is in a church, as soon as I can I'll set the camera how I'm going to use it in there, usually I'll take a few test shots and nail down the settings and then save them to U1. Most of the time the light in there isn't going to change much, so Manual settings with appropriate shutter speed, ISO etc. depending on the light.

Then I'll head back outside and re-set the camera for outside conditions and save them to U2. You never know what it's going to be like when you walk back out, so for that I'll usually set the aperture to f4, use Aperture mode, and set the ISO to something like 400 as a starting point - can always quickly change that if I walk out and it's blasting sunshine.

This means that I can walk between the inside and outside and just change from U1 to U2. So I can wait for the bride outside, get her getting out of the car, and as soon as I walk back through the doors I just switch to U1 and know that it's pretty much right. Of course you have to tweak things sometimes but it takes away some of silly mistakes (eg. walking back outside ahead of the B&G as they walk down the aisle and forgetting to change the ISO - we've all done it )

I've used it a couple times for first dances when I wanted to be able to switch back and forth between ambient and OCF. I generally forget it's there though.

I do exactly what dcnats does. I don't have settings that the custom modes always stay. I generally will set up OCF lighting and ambient. I just need to remember to turn off the OCF when I switch to ambient. Whoops!

On a normal day, I have them set for inside/low-light and outside/bright-light. I would adjust like Jon Tinkler described for specific wedding venues, I haven't really used them in a wedding but they give me a baseline when switching from extreme sunny day conditions into a poorly lit church etc. I shoot manual with spot-metering so it's a bit easier for me to just meter and change settings than someone who uses the other creative modes and multiple metering modes depending on the situation.

Thank you all for your input, I will now make a greater effort to use this feature on my camera. Can't think why I keep ignoring it. Perhaps it's because coming from film days, I started with a K1000 in the '79, I am often distrustful of 'auto' modes such as AV, TV and P!

However, these C1 presets seem to offer a known starting point on which I can build, so meter for outside before the ceremony, then when I get out there and find the sun has gone away behind a cloud, I can flick to the preset C2 (for example, Manual, 250th, F8, 100) and then kick the iso to 200, or drop the speed.

A sort of semi automatic gear box for the camera.

Amazing what they come up with, but then given that most cameras are simply attachment devices onto which we fit an expensive lens, I guess the have to find as many USP's as they can.