Is this the right way?

[andalus]

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Re setting user profiles procedure:

 

1. set the settings as you like in the main menu and parameters window

2.go back to main menu and go to user profiles and pick one and "set" it

 

do the same procedure for the other three user profiles.

 

Assuming this is correct, then HOW does one simply call up a user profile one wants before a pic is taken? Do you go to main menu (where) and choose one of the four profiles?

 

I have fiddled with this and can't seem to get it right. Also, is there a way to click on one of the four profiles and "see" what one has programmed in without changing anything there?

 

Sorry, but this is the one area of this new M9 I don't understand and the manual is not helping.

 

Thanks for any step by step or answers to questions here.

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[lars_bergquist]

That is indeed how you set up a profile. When you finalise and set it, ALL applicable settings, in both the main and the 'set' menu, are incorporated. ISO, white balance (if JPGs will be made), possible compensations etc. will all be included.

 

When you have your profile(s) defined and frozen by the 'Save user profile' command in the main menu, you call up one of them by way of the 'set' menu:

 

(1) Go to 'Set user profile'. Press 'set' button.

 

(2) In the red-framed box to the right, you find the profiles. Select one. Press 'set' button again.

 

(3) After 'Set user profile' the display now shows the profile selected.

 

If, after you have selected a profile, you change even one parameter -- ISO, for instance -- the name of the profile will be replaced with a --. But you can return to the original, unchanged profile simply by repeating the procedure from (1).

 

The old man with a distinct profile

[andalus]

Thanks very much for your explanation.

[RoySmith]

My M9 arrived 2 days ago - and I was having trouble with this as well.

When I was configuring the camera I was always selecting DNG file type, and Adobe RGB as the color space. The user profiles were never saved. It was not until reading a response here - from JAAPV - that I understood that with the M9 DNG is really raw. This is different than my Canon 5D which has information like colorspace, white balance etc that accompanies the RAW data in the .CR2 file.

 

Once I configured the M9 with my preferred settings, but not changing the colorspace, I was able to save a user profile and everything worked properly.

 

Roy