Quote Originally Posted by wfooshee View Post
Jeff, in looking around to see if I want to upgrade my D5000 to a D7000 (which I do, there's just the small matter of printing - I mean, coming up with - the money) I came across the U1 and U2 settings on the dial, which seems like exactly what you just mentioned.

U1 and U2 are memorized settings. Every setting in the camera is memorized when one of those is stored, giving you a known default to start from. No matter what you've done to the camera, you can go back to one of your stored defaults instantly. It seems like it's a reset, but to your preferences, not a factory default.

That, and the auto-focus adjustment, are lacking on the D5000, and are giving me fits about finding printing ink - I mean, disposable income.
wfooshee, you are correct in that it will take you back to a saved set of settings with just one click. Generally these would be set up for a couple of types of shooting that you use frequently such as one for portraits and maybe one for landscapes. This way you can go to your preferred settings by just choosing the preset U1 or U2. My above reasoning in the Tip also works for these settings. Lets say you were doing portraits that is saved to U1 and you went on vacation and pulled your camera out to take pictures at a theme park like Disney World and it was still set to U1 for portraits. By doing the quick check list you would notice what the settings were and be able to correct the problem BEFORE messing up a bunch of pictures. It is very handy when you can save all the settings to one location for use again in the future but you still need to check to see if the setting your camera is on will be right for your current shooting conditions. You may just be able to turn to U1 or U2 to get the settings right but you have to do a quick check to realize if and what needs to be done first. Jeff