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The Custom Settings Menu

Unlike the Photo Shooting and Movie Shooting menu options, which you are likely to modify frequently as your picture-taking environment changes, Custom Settings are slightly more stable sets of preferences that let you tailor the behavior of your camera in a variety of different ways for longer-term use.

Some options are minor tweaks useful for specific shooting situations. For example, you can turn off the D500’s built-in beeper when you are shooting an acoustic music concert, when you’d rather not disrupt the environment. Others make the camera more convenient to use. Perhaps you’d like to assign a frequently used feature to the Fn button, or turn on the viewfinder grid display to make it easier to align vertical ...

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