Overview
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Get up to speed quickly with the essential features and controls of all Canon DSLR cameras.
Syllabus
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Welcome
- Learn how to use your Canon DSLR
- How to use this course
- Downloading your user manual
- A guided tour: Common buttons and controls
- Getting ready to shoot
- Powering up your camera
- Reducing camera shake
- Shooting and reviewing in Auto mode
- Shooting in scene modes
- Setting essential camera menu settings
- Touring the viewfinder
- Shooting in Live View
- Using the Quick Control screen
- Autofocus basics
- Lens controls and zoom functions
- Image review and playback
- Changing image format and size
- Guided menu system feature assist
- What is Programmed Auto mode?
- Changing ISO
- Adjusting exposure compensation
- Using program shift mode
- Understanding focus points and autofocus
- Choosing the autofocus selection mode
- Focusing manually
- Shooting in continuous (burst) mode
- Silent shooting
- Using the self-timer
- Using a remote
- Understanding and switching between metering modes
- Exposure lock
- Aperture priority mode
- Shutter Priority mode
- Manual mode
- Long-time exposures (Bulb)
- Exposure bracketing and HDR shooting
- Setting a custom white balance
- Using picture styles
- Using creative filters
- Highlight Tone Priority and Dynamic Range Optimizer
- Shooting panoramas
- Adjusting your LCD
- Cleaning your image sensor
- Customizing your camera menus
- Adjusting movie record settings
- Choosing the right memory card for recording video
- Attaching an external microphone to the camera
- Recording movies
- Playback of movie files
- Connecting to WiFi to share photos
- Connecting your camera to the Canon Camera Connect app
- Controlling your camera with a smartphone
- Sharing images with the Canon Camera Connect app
- Next steps
