Originally posted by jbinpg You have it correct, Bruce. Think of a User Mode as a starting set of options. You can make any changes you want while in any of the modes. But once you either turn to another UM or power cycle, you are back to the starting blocks when you return to the original UM again. In fact, I and probably many other togs have gotten into the habit of just power cycling with the right finger rather than turning the mode dial.
You'd think that, but I think you're a little incorrect. If my camera is set to User Mode 1, and that dial has been presaved to having continuous bursting mode high, and
then you power on, check settings, yep all good, as should be,
then you change the shooting mode to single,
then you rotate the mode dial to something else (P, M or another User Mode),
then you go back to UM1... guess what, it's recalled that you
last left off as Single Mode and its
still applied. It's only when you completely turn off and back on again that it reverts to saved settings.
Ok... i have used my italics allowance for the remainder of the year, please forgive me, I have 13 left to use before I exceed my 2017 italic allowance, I have to use them anyway I can so that I get the same budget for italics on 2018
Please note, if I don't power off my camera (ie let it go into sleep mode), and restart it with the gentle push of the shutter button, it still recalls my last shooting mode (single mode) rather than actually starting up with UM1 saved settings. Interesting huh.
Hence the whole point of this thread, just what is recalled by Pentax from power on's, in specific regards to the Mode dials of P, M, TAv and Av etc. Can they each have some unique settings that are still applied after shutdown or do they reset to a specific standard, do they share some recalled settings etc?