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Published:
August 28, 2017

Canon EOS 77D For Dummies

Overview

Get pro results from your 77D!

The Canon EOS 77D puts features from higher-end cameras into a model designed for amateur photographers—and that's good news for you! Even better, Canon EOS 77D For Dummies makes it easier than ever to start producing pro-level photos. You'll start by getting a grasp on the mysterious terms that photographers throw around and then learn how your camera puts you in control of your image's exposure, color, and focus tools. Plus, you can follow some basic photography recipes to create portraits, nature shots, and action photos worth bragging about.

If you're just getting your hands on your first DSLR camera, you're in for

a photographer's delight! With the help of this friendly guide, you'll walk through all the steps of shooting in automatic, scene, or manual mode. Plus, the book is packed with full-color photos designed to explain and illustrate how the 77D can control the focus and color in an image—ensuring you'll get the perfect shot every time.

  • Find simple steps for shooting better photos
  • Learn the tricks the pros use to control exposure settings
  • Discover how to capture better light and color
  • Get tips for working with more advanced features

Everything you need to take picture-perfect photos with your Canon EOS 77D is inside!

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About The Author

Julie Adair King is a veteran photography author and educator. Her books include several editions of Digital Photography For Dummies and Canon camera guides. Robert Correll is a guru in all things digital and author of Digital SLR Photography All-in-One For Dummies.

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CHEAT SHEET

Your Canon EOS 77D has so many features that it can be difficult to remember what each control does. To help you sort things out, this Cheat Sheet offers a handy reference to your 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!

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If small spots appear consistently on images shot with the Canon EOS 77D camera — and you know that dirt on your lens isn't the cause — your sensor may need cleaning. The Dust Delete Data feature, designed for use with Canon Digital Photo Professional 4, provides a stop-gap measure until you can take the camera to a service shop for sensor cleaning.
Normally, your Canon EOS 77D camera automatically creates folders to store your images. The first folder has the name 100Canon; the second, 101Canon; and so on. Each folder can hold 9,999 photos. However, you can create a new folder before the existing one is full at any time.You might take this organizational step so that you can segregate work photos from personal photos, for example.
To apply effects as you record pictures or movies on your Canon EOS 77D, set the Mode dial to Creative Filters, as shown here. (This is the only way to create a movie with effects.) In this case, you don't wind up with an unfiltered original and a special effects version; you get only the special-effects image or movie.
During playback, you can add special effects to your photos by using your Canon EOS 77D camera's Creative Filters feature. The camera creates a copy of your image and applies the filter to the copy; your original remains intact. This figure offers a look at three filter effects along with the original shot. Here's a look at how three Creative Filters affected a city scene.
Although you can adjust some settings by using external controls, you access the majority of options via camera menus. Here are the basics you need to know to navigate menus and select menu options.Here's how to display menus and adjust the options on those menus: Opening and closing menus: Press the Menu button to display the menus; press again to exit the menu system and return to shooting.
Your Canon EOS 77D has so many features that it can be difficult to remember what each control does. To help you sort things out, this Cheat Sheet offers a handy reference to your 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!
By default, your Canon EOS 77D camera is set to Standard Display Mode. Alternatively, you can set the camera to provide information to you in a Guided Display Mode. In this mode, designed for novices, camera screens are simplified and offer explanations and feedback when you adjust certain settings.For example, the left side of the image shows the display when Tv exposure mode (shutter-priority auto-exposure) is selected.
If you're not familiar with the Canon EOS 77D camera, here's a quick guide to its buttons, dials, and other external controls. The lens shown here is the 18–55mm kit lens; other lenses may have different features.
The Video Snapshot feature on your Canon EOS 77D captures short video clips that are stitched into a single recording, called a video album. You can set the clip length to 8, 4, or 2 seconds long (but all clips in an album must be the same length).Given the brevity of the individual clips, we doubt you'll find much use for this feature.
Through the My Menu feature on your Canon EOS 77D, you can create a custom menu containing up to five tabs, each of which can hold six menu items. The idea is to enable you to group your favorite menu options together in a way that makes more sense to you than the standard menu organization.In this figure, for example, the first tab contains six exposure options that appear on separate tabs in the normal menu configuration.
Your Canon EOS 77D camera's touch screen works much like the ones found on smartphones and other touch-based devices. When the touch screen is enabled, as it is by default, you can simply touch the monitor to choose menu commands, change picture settings, scroll through your pictures, and more.How you touch the screen depends on the task at hand.
By default, the Canon EOS 77D camera's Live View display offers the data shown on the left when you're taking photographs; in Movie mode, the default display appears as shown on the right. Black bars appear at the top and bottom of the movie display to indicate the boundaries of the 16:9 movie frame. As is the case with other information displays, the type and amount of data that appears depends on your exposure mode and whether the camera is set to take still photos or shoot movies.
A limited assortment of shooting data, such as the shutter speed and f-stop, appears at the bottom of the Canon EOS 77D's viewfinder, as shown here. In the framing area of the viewfinder, you may see marks that indicate the portion of the screen that contains autofocusing points. (The appearance of the autofocus markings depend on your autofocus settings.
Shown in the figure, the Quick Control screen of the Canon EOS 77D appears on the monitor when the camera is in shooting mode — that is, when you're not viewing menus, checking out your pictures in Playback mode, and so on.The screen displays different data depending on your exposure mode and whether features such as flash are enabled.
If you sell your photography (or hope to), this is one customization feature definitely worth enabling. You can embed a copyright notice into the metadata — hidden text data — that's included in every photo or movie you capture. Anyone who views your picture in a program that can display metadata can see your copyright notice.
One component in the optical system of a dSLR camera is a mirror that moves when you press the shutter button. The vibration caused by the mirror movement can result in image blur when you use a very slow shutter speed, shoot with a long telephoto lens, or take extreme close-ups. To eliminate this possibility, your Canon EOS 77D camera offers mirror lockup, which delays the shutter release a little longer than normal so that the picture isn't recorded until after the mirror movement is completed.
Scattered across your camera's exterior are numerous features that you use to change picture-taking settings, review your photos, and perform various other operations. Here's a basic "What's this thing do?" introduction to them. Topside controls Your virtual tour begins on the top of the camera, shown here. Here's a guide to controls found on top of the camera.
It's great to have a map to the buttons and controls on your Canon EOS 77D camera, but it's not a lot of help if you can't remember which button to press when (and why). So here's a quick recap of what you can do with each button. Note: This information concentrates on features available when you shoot in the P, Tv, Av, and M exposure modes.
On your Canon EOS 77D camera, you can change the function of the Set button, shutter button, AE Lock button, and the AF-ON button when shooing in the P, Tv, Av, or M exposure modes. Please don't take advantage of these options, though, until you're thoroughly familiar with how the camera works using the original function settings.
Your Canon EOS 77D offers automatic time-lapse photography, which enables you to record a series of shots over a specified period of time without having to stick around to press the shutter button for each shot. You can space the shots minutes or even hours apart, and you can record as many images as your memory card can hold.
Custom Functions on the Canon EOS 77D camera are a group of advanced settings available only in the P, Tv, Av, and M exposure modes. (Remember: You set the exposure mode via the Mode dial on top of the camera.)To explore Custom Functions, choose that item from Setup Menu 4, as shown on the left. You then see the options screen for a specific Custom Function, as shown on the right in the figure.
After unpacking your Canon EOS 77D camera, you have to assemble a few parts. In addition to the camera body and the supplied battery (charge it before the first use), you need a lens and a memory card. Here's the short story: Lens: Your camera accepts Canon EF and EF-S lenses; the 18–55mm or 18–135mm kit lenses sold as a bundle with the camera body falls into the EF-S category.
The Slide Show feature on the Canon EOS 77D automatically displays photos and movies one by one for a period of time that you specify. You can view the show on the camera monitor or connect your camera to a TV, as explained next, to display your work on the TV screen. Your first step in setting up a slide show is to consider whether you want all photos and movies to be included in the show.
After you put the Canon EOS 77D camera in Movie mode, you can access the time-lapse movie feature, which records single frames at periodic intervals and then stitches the frames into a movie.If you're shooting in the P, Tv, Av, or M exposure modes, choose Time-Lapse Movie from Shooting Menu 5; in other exposure modes, from Shooting Menu 3.
Like most dSLRs sold today, your Canon EOS 77D camera offers Live View, which disables the viewfinder and instead displays a live preview of your subject on the camera monitor. The following list explains the basics of using Live View: Switching to Live View for photography: Press the Live View button, labeled, to shift from viewfinder shooting to Live View mode.
Your Canon EOS 77D camera's movie-edit feature makes it possible to remove unwanted material from the beginning or end of a movie. To access the editing tools, set the camera to Playback mode, display the movie file, and then tap the Set symbol or press the Set button to display the controls shown on the left in the following figure.
When you turn on your camera, the monitor automatically displays the screen that shows shooting settings for normal, through-the-viewfinder photography. If you prefer not to see the display upon startup, set the Mode dial to P, Tv, Av, or M, select Custom Functions from Setup Menu 4, and bring up Custom Function 12.
The Quick Control screen on your Canon EOS 77D camera displays current picture settings when you use the viewfinder to compose pictures. Because digital photography isn't confusing enough, the 77D also offers Quick Control mode, which enables you to change certain settings without using the function buttons (the ISO button, Exposure Compensation button, and so on) or menus.
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