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Published:
August 1, 2016

Canon EOS Rebel T6/1300D For Dummies

Overview

Your Canon EOS Rebel T6/1300D photography class—in a book!

The Canon EOS Rebel T6/1300D offers DLSR users a tool to take photographs truly worth bragging about. This book gives you the pointers and easy-to-follow instruction you need to make sense of your new camera and start taking those stunning shots—right out of its box.

First, it demystifies all the photography terms the pros use, explains your Canon camera's menus and settings, and shows how to take control of color, focus, and lighting. Once you have a grasp on those skills, you can apply your newfound knowledge to get better portraits, action shots, close ups, and other images.

If most of your photography experience has taken place behind the

lens of a smartphone, fear not! You'll quickly and easily learn all about your Canon's tools for controlling focus and depth of field, getting vivid color, shooting landscapes, transferring your files to your computer, and so much more.

  • Get up to speed on your camera's settings and menu options
  • Take quick auto mode shots or be creative with manual settings
  • Apply your knowledge to get better portraits and action shots
  • Find tips for customizing your camera to suit your unique needs

If you love to take photos and want to up your game with a fantastic DSLR camera, Canon Rebel T6/1300D For Dummies is your fast track to getting picture-perfect snaps in a flash!

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About The Author

Julie Adair King is a veteran digital photography author and educator whose books are industry bestsellers. She is author of Digital Photography For Dummies as well as thirty books on Canon and Nikon cameras. Her books have sold more than a million copies.

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CHEAT SHEET

Your Canon T6/1300D camera 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!

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Your Canon T6/1300D camera 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!
If you're not familiar with the Canon T6/1300D 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.
Normally, the Rebel T6/1300D renders colors accurately through its automatic white-balancing system, which compensates for any color added to a scene by the light source. For example, incandescent lights infuse a scene with a warm tint, which is neutralized by the white-balancing system. When a scene is lit by two or more light sources, though, the camera can get confused, creating a photo that has an unnatural color tint.
Your Canon EOS Rebel T6/1300D camera offers the following exposure modes, which you select via the Mode dial on top of the camera. Only P, Tv, Av, and M modes provide access to all camera features. The other modes are automatic, point-and-shoot modes, but some do enable you to make small adjustments to exposure, color, and other photo characteristics.
Your Rebel T6 gives you a variety of options with Creative Filters. With the Creative Filters, you can add special effects to your pictures. For example, these three versions of a city scene were created with these filters. The Creative Filters feature was used to create these variations on a city scene.When you use this feature, the camera creates a copy of your image and applies the filter to the copy; your original remains intact.
Being able to preview the possible combinations of settings on your Rebel T6/1300D without having to take a bunch of shots to experiment would be great, yes? Luckily, you can enjoy that advantage in Live View mode.As you vary the available settings, the Live View display updates to show you how the subject will be rendered.
As if your photographic life weren't complicated enough, Canon recently added a wrinkle to its automatic white-balancing system. On the Rebel T6, you can set the Auto option to perform in one of two ways; the difference matters only when you shoot in incandescent lighting or other types of light that have a similar Kelvin temperature (color cast).
A symbol representing the current Drive mode setting appears in the Shooting Settings and Live View displays on your Rebel T6/1300D. The icon representing the Drive mode appears in a different area depending on your exposure mode; the left screens show you where to look when shooting in Scene Intelligent Auto, for example, and the right screens show where the icon hangs out when you use the advanced exposure modes.
Some lenses for your Rebel T6 produce pictures that appear darker around the edges of the frame than in the center, even when the lighting is consistent throughout. This phenomenon goes by several names, but the two heard most often are vignetting and light fall-off. How much vignetting occurs depends on the lens, your aperture setting, and the lens focal length.
Normally, your Rebel T6 automatically creates folders to store your images. The first folder has the name 100Canon; the second, 101Canon; the third, 102Canon; and so on. Each folder can hold 9,999 photos. If you want to create a new folder before the existing one is full, choose Select Folder from Setup Menu 1 and then choose Create Folder.
By default, you initiate autofocusing on your Rebel T6/1300D by pressing the shutter button halfway and lock autoexposure by pressing the AE (autoexposure) Lock button. You should stick with this setup while learning about your camera; otherwise, the instructions in the camera manual won’t work. But after you feel more comfortable, you may want to customize the locking behaviors of the two buttons.
If you hope to transfer your pictures using a Wi-Fi connection, you will first need to give your Rebel T6/1300D a Wi-Fi name. To assign a name to the camera, take these steps: Open Setup Menu 3 and choose Wi-Fi/NFC. Press Set.On the screen that appears, highlight Enable. After you do so, the camera displays a check box related to NFC Connectivity.
With your Rebel T6/1300D in the P, S, and A exposure modes, you have some input over exposure. In P mode, you can rotate the Main dial to choose from different combinations of aperture and shutter speed; in Tv mode, you can dial in the shutter speed; and in Av mode, you can select the aperture setting. But because these are semiautomatic modes, the camera ultimately controls the final exposure.
Ready to see a retrospective of your art? Check out the Slide Show option, which automatically displays pictures and movies one by one. You can view the show on the camera monitor or, for a better view, connect your camera to a TV for playback.One nice aspect of the Slide Show function is that you can specify which files you want to include.
In Histogram display mode, you see two histograms on your Rebel T6/1300D: the Brightness histogram and an RGB histogram. The RGB histogram can be helpful in discovering problems with color saturation. The RGB histogram can indicate problems with color saturation. To make sense of an RGB histogram, you first need to know that digital images are known as RGB images because they’re created from three primary colors of light: red, green, and blue.
After you assign your Rebel T6 a Wi-Fi name, follow these instructions to connect your camera to your phone or tablet for file transfer. Note that these steps relate to transferring to a device that doesn't offer NFC connectivity. On the camera, open Setup Menu 3 and choose Wi-Fi Function, located just below the Wi-Fi/NFC option.
In addition to creating a custom White Balance setting, you can tell your Rebel T6 to shift all colors toward a particular part of the color spectrum no matter what White Balance option is in force. If you think that your camera overdoes reds in all your pictures, for example, you can implement this feature to eliminate some of that red bias.
Your Rebel T6/1300D is equipped with a feature that allows you to play your pictures and movies on an HDTV screen. However, you need to purchase an HDMI cable to connect the camera and television; the Canon part number you need is HDMI cable HTC-100. This function isn't available when the camera's Wi-Fi feature is enabled.
A brightness histogram on your Rebel T6/1300D is helpful for indicating tonal range. One of the most difficult problems to correct in a photo editing program is known as blown highlights or clipped highlights. Both terms mean that the brightest areas of the image are so overexposed that areas that should include a variety of light shades are instead totally white.
When you press the shutter button halfway, the current f-stop, shutter speed, and ISO speed appear in the viewfinder display on your Rebel T6. This is where you will monitor your exposure settings. The shutter speed, f-stop, and ISO speed appear in the viewfinder.Or if you’re looking at the Shooting Settings or Live View display, the settings appear.
After you set the Mode dial to the Movie position, you can view critical recording settings on the monitor of your Rebel T6. Start customizing your production with the options on Movie Menu 1: Movie Exposure: By default, this option is set to Auto, and the camera controls the aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.
Your Rebel T6 offers you several settings for customizing movies. Set the Mode dial to the Movie position and check out Movie Menu 2. Movie Menu 2 includes the following settings: Movie Recording Size: This option determines movie resolution (frame size, in pixels), frames per second (fps), and frame aspect ratio.
Through Movie Menu 3 on your Rebel T6/1300D, you can access some of the same advanced exposure and color options that are available when you shoot pictures in the P, Tv, Av, or M exposure modes. Specifically, you can adjust the following settings: Exposure Compensation: When you set the Movie Exposure option on Movie Menu 1 to Auto, you can use the Exposure Compensation option to tell the camera to brighten or darken the scene, just as you can when you shoot still pictures in the P, Tv, or Av exposure modes.
With your Rebel T6/1300D in Creative Auto mode, you can affect picture brightness and depth of field to some extent by using the Shoot by Ambience and Background Blur features. The scene modes let you request a slightly brighter or darker exposure via the Shoot by Ambience setting, but that’s pretty much it. So if you’re really concerned with these picture characteristics — and you should be — set the Mode dial to one of its four advanced exposure modes: P, Tv, Av, or M.
In total, the T6 offers five Drive mode settings. But you can access all five only if you set the Mode dial to one of the advanced exposure modes (P, Tv, Av, or M). In the other modes, your choices are more limited. The information here describes each Drive mode and detail which ones you can use in each exposure mode.
When you enable this mode, the Rebel T6 searches for faces in the frame. You may need to give the shutter button a quick press and release to wake up the camera before the face-detection feature engages. If a face is detected, the camera displays a focus frame over the face, as shown on the left.In a group shot where more than one face is recognized by the camera, you see arrows on either side of the focus frame.
In this autofocus mode, you see a focus frame at the center of your Rebel T6 screen, as shown on the left. The image shows the Live View display; in Movie mode, the focus frame looks the same. Either way, use the cross keys to move the frame over your subject. In FlexiZone-Single mode, use the cross keys to move the focus frame over your subject.
As its name implies, Quick mode offers the fastest autofocusing during Live View or movie shooting — not so much in terms of the time it takes you to set things up, but in terms of how fast the Rebel T6 can lock onto a focus target. In fact, Canon recommends that you use this mode when shooting with certain EF lenses; the list of affected lenses is provided in the camera manual.
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