Canon 6D: SET button opens exposure compensation in Manual mode
Asked 1/22/2025
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On a Canon 6D in Manual mode with ISO set manually, pressing the magnify button and then SET brings up an exposure compensation menu instead of recentering the zoom/focus box. I expected exposure compensation not to be active in this mode, so I was confused about why this was happening. How can I disable it and restore the normal SET-button behavior?
Originally by ESW. Source · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
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I figured it out! Even though I wasn't on one of the custom shooting modes, and even though I cleared all settings several times, it apparently didn't clear the setting the previous owner had, which was to specifically assign the SET button to be EC (in the third option in the Custom menu). I reassigned it to "do nothing", and we're good to go. Thank you for your advice though! You got me looking in the right place.
Originally by ESW. Source · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
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This is most likely not normal exposure compensation in Manual mode, but a custom button assignment on the camera.
On the Canon 6D, the previous owner may have assigned the SET button in the Custom Controls menu to bring up Exposure Compensation or Flash Exposure Compensation. If so, pressing SET during playback zoom can trigger that menu instead of the usual recenter behavior.
The fix is to go into the camera’s Custom Controls settings and change the SET button assignment back to its default behavior, or set it to “do nothing” if preferred.
A full menu reset may help in some cases, but custom button assignments may need to be checked directly. If TTL flash is enabled, the menu could also be Flash Exposure Compensation rather than regular exposure compensation.
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