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Canon EOS Rebel T5/1200D For Dummies Cheat Sheet

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Your Canon T5/1200D has so many features that it can be difficult to remember what each control does. To help you sort things out, study this handy reference to your Canon camera's external controls and exposure modes. Print out this guide, tuck it in your camera bag, and get a head start on taking great photographs!

The Canon EOS Rebel T5/1200D camera layout

Canon EOS Rebel T5/1200 D image that shows location of the back of camera controls: exposure compensation button, live view/movie-record button, AE lock button, AF point selection button, cross keys and set button, card access lamp, quick control button, playback button
Canon EOS Rebel T5/1200 D image that shows location of the top of camera controls:  speaker, red-eye reduction/self-timer lamp, shutter button, main dial, flash button, movie mode icon, mode dial, flash hot shoe, focal plane indicator
Canon EOS Rebel T5/1200 D image that shows location of the front left of camera controls:  lens-release button, microphone, port access door
Canon EOS Rebel T5/1200 D image that shows location of the camera controls in the port access: remote-control terminal, digital terminal (USB), HDMI terminal

Exposure mode quick guide for your Canon EOS Rebel T5/1200D

Your Canon EOS Rebel T5/1200D camera offers the following exposure modes, which you select via the Mode dial on top of the camera. The shooting mode determines how much control you have over exposure, ISO, and aperture. (Modes described as automatic scene modes in the table offer fully automatic photography, but some let you alter color and exposure slightly through the Shoot by Ambience and Shoot by Lighting or Scene Type features.)

table that shows the camera symbols, the name of the corresponding exposure mode and its description


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Julie Adair King is a veteran digital photography educator. Her best selling books include Digital Photography For Dummies and thirty titles on Canon and Nikon cameras.

Robert Correll is author of Digital SLR Photography All-in-One For Dummies as well as books on other Canon DSLR models, Sony cameras, HDR photography, and photo restoration.

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