Add the ability to use one of several preset banks

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Currently, to use more than the allowable nine presets, we must create the 
presets on additional cards.

A more convenient mechanism would be to allow multiple preset banks on a single 
card. This might work as follows:

In the Settings-->Config. Presets menu, we could have an option named "Preset 
Bank." The user can select from say, one of three banks (The presets for scene 
modes (issue #135) could be in a specially named bank).

After specifying a preset bank, the preset menu title will show "Presets - 
Bankx," where x represents the bank number. The user configures the presets in 
a bank as he does currently.

Notes:
1.Only one bank will be active at a time. To switch banks, simply select a new 
bank in the Settings-->Config. Presets menu.

2.It should be possible to copy a preset from one bank to another.

3.Presumably, each bank would represent separate folders on the card.

As a side note, is there a reason why there can't be ten presets instead of 
nine? I ask this because a screen displays five presets.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by colinban...@gmail.com on 22 Nov 2012 at 2:06

• Blocked on: #135
• Merged into: #304

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There are only nine presets just because I decided that nine would be enough 
for anybody. Now I'm on par with Bill Gates 
(https://www.google.com/search?q=640kb+ought+to+be+enough+for+anybody)!

Jokes aside, raising the number of presets is relatively easy; there is no 
technical reason not to have many more (well, we could face memory issues with 
a absurdly large number of them). Your proposal is a bit more complex to 
implement, buy seems very interesting. If it is not asking too much, I'm also 
interested to know how do you use your camera, and what type of workflow makes 
you need so many presets.

I'm (slowly) working on issue #135; and once we get there, having more presets 
than scene modes is going to be a bit hard to visualize for the user; but, on 
the other hand, I do not want to reduce the number of presets. Then, 
considering your proposal, this is what comes to my mind:

 * Have one preset per scene mode, permanently attached to it (we probably do not even need to rename presets any longer)
 * Scene modes will be the only path to access presets; so presets will become "configurable scene modes" in practice.
 * Have several banks of presets, pretty much as you described.
 * Reserve one special bank for "no presets", which will let the user fall back to the original scene modes.

Original comment by eduardo....@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2012 at 10:21

• Changed state: Accepted
• Now blocked on: #135

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To make it easier to get to this "Presets" menu, I suggested feature request:
Issue 301:  Add "Presets" shortcut option to JUMP button

I would prefer to have A-DEP for the 9+ preset modes and the names of the first 
6 (optionally?) tied/locked to the basic scene shooting modes[1] (Portrait, 
Landscape, Macro, Sports, Night, No Flash -- with maybe 10 characters of space 
for expression) since the 'scene' mode everyone wants to use might not match 
directly with the picture.

e.g. "1 !(Portrait) Studio flash", "1 !(Portrait) Studio CFLs", ...

[1] http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos400d/7

Original comment by bwieseon...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2012 at 2:19

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Original comment by eduardo....@gmail.com on 27 Nov 2012 at 3:22

• Changed state: Merged