Lessons
Class Introduction
09:14 2Photo Basics
04:00 3Basic Camera Controls
04:36 4Mode Dial
24:19 5Top Of Camera
21:42 6Viewfinder Display
09:18 7Live View Menu
08:16 8Movie Mode Menu
03:03Back of Camera Buttons
04:37 10Quick Menu
22:00 11Playback Menu
08:58 12Left & Right Sides Of Camera
04:39 13Bottom & Front Of Camera
06:28 14Lens Options
08:28 15Menu Functions Overview
22:13 16Picture Style Menu
05:23 17Multiple Exposure & HDR Menu
04:53 18Image Quality Menus
06:47 19Live View Shooting Menu
02:23 20Movie Shooting Menu
15:30 21Playback Menu
06:53 22Set Up Menu
15:07 23Viewfinder Display Menu
02:35 24GPS Settings Menu
04:36 25Touch Control Menu
03:38 26Custom Shooting Mode
05:33 27Custom Menu
26:28 28My Menu
04:41 29Camera Operation
09:31Lesson Info
Touch Control Menu
Page four in the setup menu, we have our touch controls and so we consider that standard, sensitive, or disable. Some people don't care for the touch screen display and they don't want to accidentally activate take a picture, or focus in anyway. You can set it to disable and it's not gonna work at all. You can set it to sensitive if you are working potentially with thin gloves and you still want things to be able to pick up or maybe if you have a screen protector on there, it doesn't work quite as well. Standard would be the case that most people would leave it at most of the time. The beep is something that'll happen when you press half way down on the shutter release and the focus is achieved. The camera beeps to let you know that it has focused. It also tells you in the viewfinder with that little green dot over in the bottom left hand side. The beep can be a little bit annoying in certain environments to subjects and other photographers that you're working around. So, it's probably...
a good idea for discretionary purposes to turn that off unless it's absolutely necessary for another reason. Battery information is a great little place to come from time to time when you want to check it, how good your battery is. It'll tell you what percentage it is. It'll tell you how many pictures you've taken on it. Tells you exactly the condition of that battery in its overall lifespan and how soon it may need to be replaced. Sensor cleaning dives us into a little bit of a submenu here. We have automatic sensor cleaning. So, normally when you turn the camera on it goes through its own little sensor cleaning to try to knock off all of the dust. If you want to clean it right now, you can have it do it, right now. You can also just turn the camera off and turn it on. It would do the same thing but you can go into the menu and turn that particular feature on and off. If you do need to clean it manually, that gets a little bit more serious. Now, stage one is pretty easy here which is the air blower. You turn your camera upside down and just blow this air in there and try to knock out any dust and hopefully it falls out with gravity. If need be, you may need to go to a swab and liquid system and there's a variety of swab systems out there in the market and the idea is that you're gonna sweep the sensor clean of any sort of dust that might be on it. Some people don't feel comfortable doing that, understandable. You can turn your camera into a repair shop to have that done. But, if you do want to do it yourself, there's a lot of different camera stores out there that have the tools and accessories that allow you to do it yourself, save some money. Info button display options. As I mentioned before the info button on the back of the camera allows you to see different sets of information. Here's where you get to choose which items you see. If you don't use the electronic level, it's not something you need or want in your camera, you can turn it off if you want but some people like to have it there. It's pretty easy to just cycle past it and so I like to leave these things checked off. I like to have options available to me. Multi function lock, I've mentioned this a little bit before in the class. The lock button will lock the touch screen, the dial on the back, the multi-controller in the back, as well as the main dial of the camera and you can choose which one of those items it locks when you press that lock into its engage position. And so for anyone who bumps their camera accidentally and makes changes that they didn't intend, this is a good way of preventing that from happening.
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Ratings and Reviews
Warren Gedye
John, this is my second class of yours I'm taking on Creative Live. You are a very unique and articulate instructor. Your knowledge, understanding and experience in all matters photography is astounding! You have certainly fine tuned the knack in imparting your deep knowledge in such a palatable way! Your slides are magnificent, simple and concise and caters directly to your audience. I can only imagine the hours upon hours of time spent making these valuable slides. I look forward to many more of your courses!
a Creativelive Student
Always enjoy all of John's classes, but especially this one since I've decided to upgrade from my previous 6D. Awesome camera and this one is so much quieter than the older one. Thank you for explaining things in terms and ways that are easy to understand!
Tim Rogers
Thanks for a very useful course John. Not to get out and enjoy the new toy. Wish I had done the similar course for my previous camera (60D); will be recommending it to the person I am giving the camera to.
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