Canon EOS Rebel T6i / 750D For Dummies
Overview
Get picture-perfect shots with your Canon EOS Rebel T6i/750D
Your Canon EOS Rebel T6i/750D is capable of taking incredibly cool and truly frame-worthy photos, but unless you know how use it properly your pictures won't be worth a thousand words. Luckily, Canon EOS Rebel T6i/750D For Dummies is packed with the tips, tricks, and instruction you'd gain in a photography course to take the intimidation out of working with your new camera—so you can start taking stunning photos right away.
Assuming no prior experience in photography, this book gets you up to speed on core photography concepts, then shows you how to grasp using the features specific to the Canon EOS Rebel T6i/750D, like working in automatic mode, controlling exposure, selecting the best lens for the job, using shutter
and aperture priority modes, knowing how and when to use flash, and so much more. Whether you're looking to capture lovely landscapes, perfect portraits, awesome action shots—or anything in between—the friendly guidance you'll find inside offers everything you need to get the shot…every time.
- Get started in automatic mode before working up to advanced features
- Take control of your camera's exposure, lighting, color, and focus settings
- Shoot better portraits and action shots
- Get great shots every time—even in low light and when composing close-ups
Complemented by online supplements that cover the unique features of the companion T6i/750D at dummies.com, this hands-on guide will take your pictures from bland to beautiful in a flash!
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About The Author
Julie Adair King has written more than 50 books on digital photography, cameras, and photo editing software. She also teaches beginning photography techniques to new dSLR owners. Robert Correll is the author of several photography books, including Digital SLR Photography All-in-One For Dummies.
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Your Canon T6i/750D 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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With your Rebel T6i/750D camera 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.
You have the option of enabling Flicker Detection from Rebel T6i/750D's Setup Menu 2. This warns you if the camera detects flickering lights that could cause exposure problems.
What happens is that the lights, by design, cycle on and off rapidly. (Technically, the camera is designed to detect flickering at 100Hz or 120Hz.
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Your Canon T6i/750D 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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The Quick Control screen on your Rebel T6i/750D enables you to change certain settings without using the function buttons (the ISO button, Exposure Compensation button, and so on) or menus.
You can use this screen to adjust settings in any exposure mode, but the settings that are accessible depend on the mode you select and, for still photography, whether you're using the viewfinder or Live View mode.
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Your Canon EOS Rebel T6i/750D 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.
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On the back of the Canon Rebel T6i/750D camera, you encounter the smorgasbord of controls shown in this figure. With the exception of Menu and Info, buttons with a white icon perform shooting mode functions; buttons with blue icons are used in playback. Some buttons sport dual colors, meaning that they come into play for both functions.
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Hidden under two covers on the left side of the Rebel T6i/750D camera, you find inputs for connecting the camera to various devices. The figure shows you what lurks beneath both covers (they've been digitally removed to make it easier for you to see the interesting bits underneath). Starting with the left side, the available connections are
Inputs for connecting the camera to other devices are hidden by rubber covers (not shown in the figure) on the left side of the camera.
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Scattered across your Canon Rebel T6i/750D camera's exterior are numerous features that you use to change picture‐taking settings, review your photos, and perform various other operations. Your virtual tour begins on the top of the camera, shown here.
Here's a guide to controls found on top of the camera.
The items of note here are
On/Off/Movie mode switch: Okay, you probably already figured out the first two points of this switch, but what may not be clear is that setting the switch to the little movie‐camera icon turns on the camera and sets it to movie‐recording mode.
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If small spots appear consistently on your images — and you know that dirt on the lens of your Rebel T6i/750D isn't the cause — your sensor may need cleaning. Don't clean the sensor yourself because you can easily ruin your camera if you don't know what you're doing. Instead, take the camera to a good repair shop for cleaning.
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With the Creative Filters on your Rebel T6i/750D, you can add special effects to your pictures. For example, Julie used this feature to create the three versions of her city scene shown in the following figure.
Julie used the Creative Filters feature 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.
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To select a scene mode on your Rebel T6i/750D, turn the Mode dial to the icon that represents the type of picture you want to take. The figure labels the icons that represent each mode.
These icons represent automatic exposure modes geared to specific types of scenes.
As for the actual picture‐taking process, everything works pretty much as usual.
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Adjusting a few options on your Rebel T6i/750D can help turn that decent portrait into a stunning one. The first picture‐taking setting to consider is the exposure mode, which you select via the Mode dial, shown here.
Settings on the Mode dial determine the exposure mode.
For still photography, exposure modes are grouped into two categories, Basic Zone and Creative Zone, labeled in the figure.
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The Video Snapshot feature on your Rebel T6i/750D, found on Movie Menu 2, enables you to capture short video clips that you stitch into a single recording, called a video album. A few pertinent facts about this feature:
Each clip can be no more than 8 seconds long. You also can record 2‐ and 4‐second clips.
All clips in an album must be the same length.
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In Live View mode on your Rebel T6i/750D, you can vary the type and amount of data that appears on the monitor along with your subject. Press the Info button to cycle from the default display mode, shown on the left in the figure, to one of the alternative displays shown in the figure.
Press the Info button to change the type of data that appears during Live View shooting.
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In addition to the Shooting Settings display on your Rebel T6i/750D, you can view a collection of additional settings data via the Camera Settings display, shown here. This screen is purely an informational tool, however; you can't actually adjust any of the reported settings from this screen.
Press the Info button when the menus are active to view this screen.
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Your Canon EOS Rebel T6i/750D offers mirror lockup. 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.
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With certain scene modes on the Rebel T6i/750D, you can play around a little with color, sharpness, contrast, and exposure through the Shoot by Ambience and Shoot by Lighting or Scene Type features.
The keywords here are play around a little. These features don't give you anywhere near the level of control as the advanced exposure modes (P, Tv, Av, and M) or even as much as Creative Auto mode.
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After unpacking your Rebel T6i/750D camera, you have to assemble a few parts. In addition to the camera body and the supplied battery (be sure to charge it before the first use), you need a lens and a memory card. Here's what you need to know up front:
Lens: Your camera accepts Canon EF and EF‐S model lenses; the 18–55mm kit lens sold as a bundle with the camera body falls into the EF‐S category.
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You can create and run the slide show right on your Canon Rebel T6i/750D camera. You can even add some transition effects if you choose. And by connecting your camera to a TV, you can display your best photos and movies to the whole roomful of people.
To create and run the slide show, follow these steps:
Display Playback Menu 2 and choose Slide Show, as shown on the left.
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Regardless of whether you're using the viewfinder or Live View on your Rebel T6i/750D, your first focus task is to set the lens to auto or manual focusing (assuming that your lens supports autofocusing with the T6i/750D).
On most lenses, including the 18–55mm kit lens, you find a switch with two settings: AF for autofocusing and MF for manual focusing, as shown in the figure.
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By using the Copyright Information feature on your Rebel T6i/750D's Setup Menu 3, you can add copyright information to the image metadata (extra data) recorded with the image file. You can view metadata in the Canon software.
Including a copyright notice is a reasonable first step to prevent people from using your pictures without permission.
Your Rebel T6i/750D camera's movie‐edit feature makes it possible to remove unwanted material from the beginning or end of a movie (imagine the focus was poor at the start, as shown).
To access the editing tools, set the camera to Playback mode and select a movie for playback. Then press the Set button to display the controls shown on the left.
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For your convenience, the T6i/750D offers Live View, a feature that enables you to use the monitor instead of the viewfinder to compose photos. For still photography, you can use Live View in any exposure mode except the Candlelight Portrait scene mode. For movies, you must use Live View; the viewfinder is disabled for movie recording.
Your Rebel T6i/750D camera's touch screen works much like the ones found on smartphones and other touch‐based devices, such as an Apple iPad. 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.
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Follow these steps to take a picture in Live View mode on your Rebel T6i/750D using autofocusing and the default settings for Auto and Auto Flash Off modes:
Set the Mode dial to Auto or Flash Off.
Refer to the figure if you need help locating the symbols that represent these shooting modes.
Set the Mode dial to Auto or Auto Flash Off for point‐and‐shoot simplicity.
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To help ensure a proper exposure, your Rebel T6i/750D camera continually meters the light until the moment you press the shutter button fully to shoot the picture. In autoexposure modes — that is, any mode but M — the camera also keeps adjusting exposure settings as needed.
For most situations, this approach works great, resulting in the right settings for the light that's striking your subject when you capture the image.
One of the many advantages of investing in the Rebel T6i/750D is that you can customize it to suit the way you like to shoot. Open Setup Menu 1, shown here, to access the following options:
Setup Menu 1 contains the Format Card option with a handful of others.
Select Folder: By default, your camera creates an initial file‐storage folder named 100Canon and puts as many as 9,999 images in that folder.
Setup Menu 2 on the Rebel T6i/750D offers several ways to customize basic operations. Setup Menu 2, posing in the following figure, contains these options:
Setup Menu 2 offers more ways to customize basic operations.
Auto Power Off: To save battery power, the camera automatically goes to sleep after a certain period of inactivity.
Quite a few customization features await on the Rebel T6i/750D's Setup Menu 3.Setup Menu 3, shown in the following figure, contains the following customization offerings:
Screen Color: By default, the Shooting Settings screen shows shooting information in white over a basic black background. Some grayscale shading is used, and accents are generally highlighted in orange.
The figure shows Setup Menu 4 on the Rebel T6i/750D, which you can access only in the advanced exposure modes. Those modes are P, Tv, Av, and M.
To display Setup Menu 4, you must set the Mode dial to P, Tv, Av, or M.
Certification Logo Display: You have our permission to ignore this screen, which simply displays logos for a couple electronics‐industry certifications claimed by the camera.
Switching to Close‐up mode on the Rebel T6i/750D doesn't enable you to focus at a closer distance to your subject than normal, as it does on some non‐SLR cameras. The close‐focusing capabilities of your camera depend entirely on the lens you use. (Your lens manual should specify the minimum focusing distance.)
Choosing Close‐up mode does tell the camera to try to select an aperture (f‐stop) setting that results in a short depth of field, which blurs background objects so that they don't compete for attention with your main subject.
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Landscape mode on your Rebel T6i/750D is designed for capturing scenic vistas, city skylines, and other large‐scale subjects and produces a large depth of field. As a result, objects both close to the camera and at a distance appear sharply focused, as in this figure.
Landscape mode produces a large zone of sharp focus.
Portrait mode on the Rebel T6i/750D is designed to produce the classic portraiture look featured in this figure: a sharply focused subject against a blurred background. In photography lingo, this picture has a short depth of field.
Portrait mode produces a softly focused background.
One way to control depth of field is to adjust an exposure control called aperture, or f‐stop setting, so Portrait mode attempts to use an f‐stop setting that produces a short depth of field.
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Special Scene mode on the Rebel T6i/750D has six scenes: Kids, Food, Candlelight, Night Portrait, Handheld Night Scene, and HDR Backlight Control. To access any of the submodes, choose a method:
Set the Mode dial to Special Scene mode (SCN) and then press the Quick Control button. Rotate the Main dial to scroll through the three special scenes, as shown on the left of the figure.
Sports mode on the Rebel T6i/750D results in a number of settings that can help you photograph moving subjects, such as the soccer player in this figure. First, the camera selects a fast shutter speed, which is needed to stop motion. Shutter speed is an exposure control.
To capture moving subjects and minimize blur, try Sports mode.
Here's an overview of the buttons, dials, and other external controls on your Canon EOS Rebel T6i/750D camera. The lens shown in the following figures is the Canon EF-S 18–55mm IS (Image Stabilization) II model sold with the camera; other lenses may vary.
Back view of the Canon EOS Rebel T6i/750D camera.
Top view of the Canon EOS Rebel T6i/750D camera.
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These focusing basics discussed here apply only when you use the Rebel T6i/750D's viewfinder to compose your image; focusing in Live View and Movie modes varies.
To autofocus: Frame your subject so that it appears within the autofocus area brackets, labeled here. Then press and hold the shutter button halfway.
Your Canon Rebel T6i/750D camera enables you to connect via a wireless network to various devices for picture sharing, printing, and downloading. To try out these features, visit Setup Menu 3 and set the Wi‐Fi option to Enable, which then makes the Wi‐Fi Function menu option available.
Choose that option, as shown on the left, to launch the screen shown on the right, which is the starting point for all the Wi‐Fi functions.
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