Shooting modes and possible settings - EOS 7D Mark II
| Article ID: ART168785 | | | Date published: 10/27/2017 | | | Date last updated: 11/30/2017 |
Description
Your camera includes several shooting modes and there are many possible settings for photos and movies.
Solution
Your camera has an amazing array of settings. Some are automatically enabled but you might want to override them with a manual setting.
The tables below list all the settings and when they can and cannot be selected.
: Set automatically, 
: User selectable, - : Not selectable/Disabled
*1: If the built-in flash is set to <
>, the AF-assist beam will not be emitted.
*2: Settable only during Live View shooting.
*3: With Auto ISO, you can set a fixed ISO speed.
*4: Settable only when Auto ISO is set.
*5: Settable only during viewfinder shooting.
: Set automatically, : User selectable, - : Not selectable/Disabled
*1 : The 
icon indicates still photo shooting during movie shooting.
*2 : Multi Shot Noise Reduction cannot be set.
*3 : With Auto ISO, you can set a fixed ISO speed.
*4 : With Auto ISO, you can set exposure compensation.
*5 : Works only before you start shooting a movie. The functions that your camera can set vary depending on the shooting mode.
The tables below list all the settings and when they can and cannot be selected.
Photo settings
: Set automatically, : User selectable, - : Not selectable/Disabled
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P | Tv | Av | M | B | |
| All image quality settings selectable | |
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| ISO speed | Automatically set/Auto ISO | |
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| Manually set | - | |
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| Picture Style | Automatically set/Auto | |
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| Manual selection | - | |
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| White balance | Auto | |
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| Preset | - | |
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| Custom | - | |
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| Color temperature setting | - | |
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| Correction/Bracketing | - | |
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| Auto Lighting Optimizer | |
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| Long exposure noise reduction | - | |
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| High ISO speed noise reduction | |
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| Highlight tone priority | - | |
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| Lens aberration correction | Peripheral illumination correction | |
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| Chromatic aberration correction | |
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| Distortion correction | |
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| Anti-flicker shooting | |
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| Color space | sRGB | |
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| Adobe RGB | - | |
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| AF | One-Shot AF | - | |
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| AI Servo AF | - | |
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| AI Focus AF | |
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| AF area selection mode | - | |
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| AF point | |
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| Manual focusing (MF) | |
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| AF-assist beam | *1 |
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| AF Microadjustment | - | |
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 (face)+Tracking*2 |
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| FlexZone - Multi*2 | |
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| FlexZone - Single*2 | |
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| Continuous AF*2 | |
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| Function | |
P | Tv | Av | M | B | |
| Metering | Evaluative metering | |
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| Partial metering | - | |
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| Spot metering | - | |
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| Center-weighted average metering | - | |
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| Exposure | Program shift | - | |
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| AE lock | - | |
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*3 | - | |
| Exposure compensation | - | |
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*4 |
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| AEB | - | |
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| Depth-of-field preview | - | |
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| HDR shooting | - | |
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| Multiple exposures | - | |
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| Interval timer*5 | |
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| Bulb timer | - | - | - | - | - | |
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| Drive | Single shooting | |
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| High-speed continuous shooting | |
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| Low-speed continuous shooting | |
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| Silent single shooting | |
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| Silent continuous shooting | |
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| 10-sec. self-timer/Remote control | |
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| 2-sec. self-timer/Remote control | |
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| Built-in flash | Automatic firing | |
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| Flash on (Fires at all times) | |
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| Flash off | |
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| Red-eye reduction | |
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| FE lock | - | |
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| Flash exposure compensation | - | |
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| Wireless control | - | |
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| External Speedlite | Function settings | - | |
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| Custom Function settings | - | |
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| Live View shooting | |
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| Quick Control | |
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>, the AF-assist beam will not be emitted.*2: Settable only during Live View shooting.
*3: With Auto ISO, you can set a fixed ISO speed.
*4: Settable only when Auto ISO is set.
*5: Settable only during viewfinder shooting.
Movie settings
: Set automatically, : User selectable, - : Not selectable/Disabled
| Function | Movies | Still Photos *1 |
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P / B | Tv | Av | M | |
P / B / Tv / Av | M | ||
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| All image quality settings selectable (movie) | |
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| All image quality settings selectable (still photos) | - | - | - | - | - | |
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| ISO speed | Automatically set/Auto ISO | |
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| Manually set | - | - | - | - | |
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| Picture Style | Automatically set/Auto | |
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| Manual selection | - | |
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| White balance | Auto | |
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| Preset | - | |
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| Custom | - | |
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| Color temperature setting | - | |
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- | |
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| Correction | - | |
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- | |
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| Bracketing | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
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| Auto Lighting Optimizer | |
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| Long exposure noise reduction | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| High ISO speed noise reduction*2 | |
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| Highlight tone priority | - | |
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- | |
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| Lens aberration correction | Peripheral illumination correction | |
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| Chromatic aberration correction | |
|
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| Distortion correction | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Color space | sRGB | |
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| Adobe RGB | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
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| AF | +Tracking |
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| FlexiZone - Multi | |
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| FlexiZone - Single | |
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| Manual focusing (MF) | |
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| Movie Servo AF | |
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| Function | Movies | Still Photos *1 |
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P / B | Tv | Av | M | |
P / B / Tv / Av | M | ||
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| Metering | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Exposure | Program shift | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| AE lock | - | |
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*3 | - | |
*3 | |
| Exposure compensation | - | |
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*4 |
- | |
*4 |
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| AEB | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Depth-of-field preview | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Drive | Single shooting | - | - | - | - | - | |
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| High-speed continuous shooting | - | - | - | - | - | |
|
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| Low-speed continuous shooting | - | - | - | - | - | |
|
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| Silent single shooting | - | - | - | - | - | |
|
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| Silent continuous shooting | - | - | - | - | - | |
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| 10-sec. self-timer/ Remote control*5 | - | - | - | - | - | |
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| 2-sec. self-timer/Remote control*5 | - | - | - | - | - | |
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| Built-in flash/External Speedlite | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Sound recording | |
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| Time code | |
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- | - | - | |
| Quick Control | |
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icon indicates still photo shooting during movie shooting.*2 : Multi Shot Noise Reduction cannot be set.
*3 : With Auto ISO, you can set a fixed ISO speed.
*4 : With Auto ISO, you can set exposure compensation.
*5 : Works only before you start shooting a movie. The functions that your camera can set vary depending on the shooting mode.