Canon EOS 80D For Dummies

355 Pages·2016·53.01 MB·English

by  Julie Adair King

Canon
®
EOS® 80D
by Julie Adair King and Robert Correll
Canon® EOS® 80D For Dummies®
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A Quick Look at What’s Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Icons and Other Stuff to Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
eCheat Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Practice, Be Patient, and Have Fun! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
PART 1: FAST TRACK TO SUPER SNAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
CHAPTER 1: Getting the Lay of the Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Looking at Lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Choosing a lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Attaching and removing a lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Zooming in and out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Using an IS (image stabilizer) lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Getting acquainted with focusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Adjusting the Viewfinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Adjusting the Monitor Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Using the Touchscreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Working with Memory Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Exploring External Camera Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Topside controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Back-of-the-body controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Front odds and ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Connection ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Ordering from Camera Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Navigating the Custom Functions Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Monitoring Critical Camera Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
The Info button: Choosing what the screen shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Checking the Camera Settings display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Viewing the Shooting Settings display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Decoding viewfinder data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Reading the LCD panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Changing Settings via the Quick Control Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Getting Help from Your Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Reviewing Basic Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Cruising the Setup menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Setting up the Lock switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Taking two final setup steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
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CHAPTER 2: Choosing Basic Picture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Choosing an Exposure Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Changing the Drive Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Getting Familiar with the Built-in Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Using flash in the fully automatic modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Enabling flash in advanced exposure modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Using Red-Eye R eduction flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Controlling Picture Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Diagnosing quality problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Decoding the Image Quality options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Considering Resolution: Large, Medium, or Small? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Understanding File Type (JPEG or Raw) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
JPEG: The imaging (and web) standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Raw (CR2): The purist’s choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Our take: Choose Fine or Raw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Setting the Photo Aspect Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
CHAPTER 3: Taking Great Pictures, Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
As Easy As It Gets: Auto and Flash Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Taking Advantage of Scene (SCN) Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
Modifying scene mode results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Gaining More Control with Creative Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Exploring Live View Shooting and
CHAPTER 4:
Movie Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Reviewing Live View and Movie mode cautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Customizing the display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Focusing in Live View and Movie Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Continuous autofocusing in Movie mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Choosing an AF ( autofocus) mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Manual focusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Zooming in for a focus check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Exploring Other Live View Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Adjusting other Live View picture settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Using the touch shutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Recording Your First Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Customizing Movie Recording Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Shooting Menu 4 (Movie) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Shooting Menu 5 (Movie) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Using Movie Digital Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Playing Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
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PART 2: WORKING WITH PICTURE FILES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
CHAPTER 5: Picture Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Disabling and Adjusting Image Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141
Exploring Playback Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Switching to Index (thumbnails) view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Using the Quick Control screen during playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Jumping through images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Rotating pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Zooming in for a closer view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Viewing Picture Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151
Basic Information display data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Shooting Information display mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Understanding histograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Enabling a few display extras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
Deleting Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Erasing single images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Erasing all images on the memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Erasing selected images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Protecting Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Protecting (or unprotecting) a single photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162
Protecting multiple photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Rating Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Viewing Your Photos on a Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Downloading, Printing, and Sharing
CHAPTER 6:
Your Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Installing the Canon Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Sending Pictures to the Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Connecting camera and computer via USB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172
Connecting to the computer via Wi-Fi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Downloading from the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Downloading from a card reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Processing Raw (CR2) Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Processing Raw images in the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Converting Raw images in Digital Photo Professional . . . . . . . . . . 182
Planning for Perfect Prints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Preparing Pictures for Online Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
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PART 3: TAKING CREATIVE CONTROL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
CHAPTER 7: Getting Creative with Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Kicking Your Camera into High Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Introducing Exposure Basics: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO . . . .193
Understanding exposure-setting side e ffects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195
Doing the exposure balancing act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Monitoring Exposure Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Choosing an Exposure Metering Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Setting ISO, f-stop, and Shutter Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Controlling ISO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Adjusting aperture and shutter speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Sorting through Your Camera’s Exposure-Correction Tools . . . . . . . .212
Overriding autoexposure results with E xposure
Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Improving high-contrast shots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Experimenting with Auto Lighting O ptimizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Correcting vignetting with Peripheral I llumination Correction . . . 223
Dampening noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Locking Autoexposure Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Bracketing Exposures Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Setting up for automatic bracketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Shooting a bracketed series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .232
Using Flash in Advanced Exposure Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Understanding your camera’s approach to flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Using flash outdoors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Adjusting flash power with Flash Exposure Compensation . . . . . 238
Locking the flash exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Exploring more flash options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .242
CHAPTER 8: Manipulating Focus and Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Reviewing Focus Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246
Introducing the AF-ON button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Adjusting Autofocus Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
AF Area mode: One focus point or many? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Changing the AF (autofocus) operation mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Choosing the right autofocus combo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Manipulating Depth of Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Controlling Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Correcting colors with white balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Changing the White Balance setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261
Creating a custom White Balance setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Fine-tuning White Balance settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Bracketing shots with white balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Taking a Quick Look at Picture Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
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CHAPTER 9: Putting It All Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Recapping Basic Picture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Setting Up for Specific Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Shooting still portraits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282
Capturing action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Capturing scenic vistas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Capturing dynamic close-ups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
PART 4: THE PART OF TENS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
CHAPTER 10: Ten Features to Explore on a Rainy Day . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Enabling Mirror Lockup Shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Adding Cleaning Instructions to Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Tagging Files with Your Copyright Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Exploring Wi-Fi Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .302
Experimenting with Creative Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Shooting in Multiple Exposure Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307
Investigating Two More Printing Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Presenting a Slide Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .309
Editing Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Creating Video Snapshots and Time Lapse Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
CHAPTER 11: Ten More Ways to Customize Your Camera . . . . . . . 313
Creating Your Own Exposure Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Creating Your Very Own Camera Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315
Creating Custom Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Changing the Color Space from sRGB to Adobe RGB . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Changing the Direction of the Dials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Changing All the Furniture Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Disabling the AF-Assist Beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Controlling the Lens Focus Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Making the Flashing Red AF Points Go Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Considering a Few Other Autofocusing Tweaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
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