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#1
I could have SWORN at one point I had my 70d configured with such an option that, in manual mode, I could hit a button and the exposure would snap to auto-settings. For example, I've got a scene properly exposed at iso 800, 1/250th, and f/1.8. The lighting changes, suddenly requiring 1/50th. Ideally, I go change sensitivity since I've got a few stops of headroom, but I don't have time just yet and want to "just get the shot" before I go chimping for optimal settings. I can just hit this magic button and the shutter speed will snap to 1/50th, and after seeing the properly exposed but blurry image, I can then go fix my settings. Does something like this exist in this module? Am I looking in the wrong place?

Case in point: I was shooting a concert, and leave my camera in M mode. I pick it up the next morning to get some snaps of a dog jumping on my friend, and all of them are way over exposed because I didn't have time to adjust settings. Sure, I could have switched to P, but I don't usually want to be there anyway. I'd rather have the reflexive workflow of auto button>(shoot?)>fine tune>shoot.

This is already kind of a thing in live view with this plugin - Half pressing the shutter auto sets exposure, but if you don't give the half press time, the shot uses the prior manual settings. But looking through the mirror, it's full auto all the time.
#2
Was this feature ever implemented? I could SWEAR I've used it before, but I wiped out my ML settings accidentally and I can't figure out for the life of me what to turn on again.