5DII Users: What are your settings for the following?

Questions for the 5DII users here: what are your "typical" settings for the following functions? Please share. Thanks.

Normal Functions:
AF: One Shot, AI Focus, AI Servo?
Metering: Evaluative, Partial, Spot, Center-Weight. Avg.?
WB: AWB, Custom WB, or other?
Peripheral Illumination Correct: Enable/Disable?
Color Space: sRGB, Adobe RGB
Picture style: Neutral, Standard, User Def., etc...

Custom Functions:
II.3: Highlight tone priority: Disabled, Enabled?
II.4: Auto Lighting Optimizer: Low, Standard, Strong, Disabled?

AF: Depends what I'm shooting, moving or static subjects. NEVER "AI Focus"
Metering: Usually Ev
WB: Always RAW, so I just leave it at AWB and worry about it later, occasionally shooting a grey/white card on site, to help in post.
P.I.C.: Disabled:
CS: sRGB, I know enough about color-space to know, if you don't know exactly why you want Adobe RGB, don't use it.
PS: RAW again, doesn't matter, so its probably in Standard.
HTP: Disabled. I use ISO 100 a lot, and this function serves no real purpose in RAW, best to just watch your blinkies, and understand exposure.
ALO: Disabled, also serves no real purpose for a RAW shooter, and can mislead you on the LCD preview and histogram, because thats generated from the imbedded JPG.(same issue with HTP).

SchnellerGT wrote in post #10919625
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AF: One Shot, AI Focus, AI Servo?
Metering: Evaluative, Partial, Spot, Center-Weight. Avg.?
WB: AWB, Custom WB, or other?
Peripheral Illumination Correct: Enable/Disable?
Color Space: sRGB, Adobe RGB
Picture style: Neutral, Standard, User Def., etc...

Custom Functions:
II.3: Highlight tone priority: Disabled, Enabled?
II.4: Auto Lighting Optimizer: Low, Standard, Strong, Disabled?

It really depends but I shoot raw so most of the processing features I keep disabled.

AF: one shot
Metering: spot
WB: 5200K or Custom
PIC: Enabled
Color Space: Adobe RGB
Picture Style: Neutral 0 sharpening, -4 contrast (gives me the best depiction in the RGB histogram of captured RAW data for what I shoot)

HTP: Distabled
ALO: Low

Normal Functions:
AF: One Shot
Metering: Evaluative for general shooting, spot when i'm actually carefully planning a shot
WB: AWB for general stuff, Custom when i'm carefully planning
Peripheral Illumination Correct: Enable
Color Space: Adobe RGB
Picture style: Standard

Custom Functions:
II.3: Highlight tone priority: Disabled
II.4: Auto Lighting Optimizer: Standard

Thanks for the replies. Please keep them coming.

I guess the Metering is the one that interests me most. I have been using Evaulative for the longest time, but I might try using Center-Weight. Average for a while.

Normal Functions:
AF: One Shot
Metering: Evaluative
WB: AWB
Peripheral Illumination Correct: Enable
Color Space: sRGB
Picture style: Portrait

Custom Functions:
II.3: Highlight tone priority: Disabled
II.4: Auto Lighting Optimizer: Standard

Some of these settings have no effect on RAW images unless processed with DPP (other converters such as ACR or DXO won't see them at all when converting RAW files). Functions such as picture styles and auto lighting optimizer are jpg adjustments or for RAW and DPP conversion software (even then it's still an optional adjustment). However the settings will effect the view in the camera LCD viewing screen even shooting RAW.

Many of these I change as needed such as the metering and AF functions.

Normal Functions:

AF: Manual for portraits/landscape, AI Servo for live/street/etc

Metering: Evaluative

WB: AWB for non-flash. just started using a flash, so I'm not yet set into a 'system' for with-flash WB.

Peripheral Illumination Correct: Disable?

Color Space: Adobe RGB

Picture style: Faithful

Custom Functions:

II.3: Highlight tone priority: Disabled

II.4: Auto Lighting Optimizer: Disabled


I shoot in AV with a heavy dose of exposure compensation.

I disable everything I can that allows the camera to make a decision that I could later make in Aperture. I just prefer the control.

Normal Functions:
AF: One Shot if it doesn't move. AI Servo when it does, which is almost all the time, inlcuding portrait.

Metering: Evaluative becuase I have gotten to know it really well.
WB: AWB
Peripheral Illumination Correct: Disable
Color Space: sRGB (I shoot RAW, it doesn't matter)
Picture style: Neutral/Faithful since it's more accurate than the other ones when it comes to showing the blinkies/histogram

Custom Functions:
II.3: Highlight tone priority: Disabled
II.4: Auto Lighting Optimizer: Disabled

Normal Functions:
AF: One Shot usually, unless tracking a moving subject, then AI Servo
Metering: Spot, but I shoot in Manual mode all the time. Spot would not be good for semi-auto modes
WB: Depends.
Peripheral Illumination Correct: Disable
Color Space: sRGB
Picture style: Standard

Custom Functions:
II.3: Highlight tone priority: Disabled
II.4: Auto Lighting Optimizer: Disabled

I shoot in RAW 100% of the time, so the HTP, ALO, and Picture Styles don't really help me so I leave them off.

Bumping for a few more replies. Thanks.

Normal Functions:
AF: Since I have 7D, I use this for One Shot
Metering: Evaluative
WB: Custom WB - I turn on live view and move the Kelvin until it looks like the scene does to me
Peripheral Illumination Correctisable
Color Space: sRGB
Picture style: Irrelevant raw

Custom Functions:
II.3: Highlight tone priority: Disabled
II.4: Auto Lighting Optimizer: Disabled?

I'm surprised to see so many with ALO turned on... It doesn't make any difference for RAW, and makes the histogram less accurate... right?

Perhaps those using ALO are not RAW shooters?

Kinda depends on what your shooting. Every setting is a tool for a specific job.

No offense but maybe learning a bit more about photography in general would be a better answer for your question. Anyone with a basic education on photography would understand the uses for each of those settings. That being said, some interesting responses to say the least.....lol