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August 7, 2017

Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D For Dummies

Overview

Action, beauty, adventure, and art—start capturing memories today!

Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D For Dummies is your ultimate guide to taking spectacular photos—no photography experience required! The EOS Rebel offers professional features that camera phones just cannot match, and this book shows you how to take advantage of these features to take stunning photos in any situation. First, you'll take a tour of the controls to learn what everything does, where to find it, and how to use it. Next, you'll walk through the automatic, scene, and manual modes to learn the strengths and weaknesses of each, and how to choose a mode based on your goals for that particular photo. You'll learn how to capture action shots, take beautiful portraits, and get as artsy as you want to get as you adjust for color, lighting, and focus, and control exposure for different effects.

Taking

great photos doesn't have to be difficult! Your camera offers everything you need to perfectly capture any scene, and this book provides clear, easy-to-follow instruction to help you take full advantage of these professional tools.

  • Get acquainted with your camera's controls
  • Shoot in automatic, scene, or manual mode
  • Compose shots and work with lighting like a pro
  • Adjust for focus, color, depth of field, and more

Whether you're taking pictures at a party, shooting scenery on vacation, catching action at a ball game, or just wandering around capturing spontaneous moments of beauty, awesome photos are just a few simple steps away. Your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D is equipped with the tools to make any scene share-worthy, and Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D For Dummies equips you to start snapping professional-quality photos today!

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About The Author

Julie Adair King is a veteran digital photography author and educator whose books are industry bestsellers. Along with Digital Photography For Dummies, she is the author of bestselling guides to many Canon dSLR cameras. Her books have sold more than a million copies.

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CHEAT SHEET

Your Canon T7i/800D 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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This list describes ten customization options that aren't quite as critical as some of the major ones like autofocusing performance but may come in handy on occasion. Giving the Set button an extra job Normally, the main role of the Set button during shooting is to select items from the camera menus and Quick Control screens.
Set the Mode dial on your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D to Creative Filters, as shown in the following figure, to apply effects as you record pictures or movies. (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 the Creative Filters feature on your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D. The camera creates a copy of your image and applies the filter to the copy; your original remains intact. The following figure offers a look at three filter effects along with the original shot.
With your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D camera in certain Basic Zone modes, including Creative Auto and certain Scene modes, you can affect exposure and depth of field to some extent. But if you're really concerned with these picture characteristics — and you should be — set the Mode dial to one of the four Creative Zone exposure modes highlighted here.
Your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D camera offers scads of options for customizing its performance. Here is a quick rundown of options on Setup Menu 1, which are mainly (but not all) related to general camera operations. Some of these features deserve only a brief glance; others may require your attention on a regular basis.
Menu offerings on the Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D change depending on your exposure mode — Scene Intelligent Auto, P, Creative Auto, and so on — and whether the camera is set to Movie mode, Live View photography mode, or viewfinder photography mode. Setup Menu 2 contains these options: Auto Power Off: To save battery power, the camera automatically goes to sleep after a certain period of inactivity.
To view the options on Setup Menu 3, put the Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D camera in still photo mode (the On/Off switch should be set to On) and exit Live View mode, if it's active (press the LV button to turn Live View on and off). Then rotate the Mode dial on top of the camera to the P position, which selects the Programmed Autoexposure mode, one of four advanced exposure modes.
The figure shows Setup Menu 4 on the Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D, which you can access only in the advanced exposure modes: P, Tv, Av, and M. Custom Functions: Selecting this option opens the door to Custom Functions, which are a set of advanced features. Clear Settings: Via this option, you can restore the default menu settings.
It's great to have a map to the buttons and controls on your 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.
Your Canon T7i/800D 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!
Although you can adjust some settings on the Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D by using external controls, you access the majority of options via camera menus. 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.
By default, your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D camera is set to 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, when you press the Menu button, you get a description of the contents of the current menu, as shown on the left.
Traveling over the top of the Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D camera to its back, you encounter the smorgasbord of controls shown in the following figure. Having lots of external buttons makes accessing the camera's functions easier. Some buttons have multiple "official" names because they serve multiple purposes depending on whether you're taking pictures, reviewing images, recording a movie, or performing some other function.
If you're not familiar with the T7i/800D 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.
Scattered across your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D 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: Setting the switch to movie-camera icon turns on the camera and sets it to movie-recording mode.
Custom Functions are a group of advanced settings available only in the P, Tv, Av, and M exposure modes of your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D. (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.
By default, the Live View display on the Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D offers the data shown on the left in the figure 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.
Your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D camera's touchscreen works much like the ones found on smartphones and other touch-based devices. When the touchscreen 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.
Your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D camera offers several displays that present the current picture-taking settings. The next sections explain the displays that are available during viewfinder photography. For still photography, you can use either the viewfinder or Live View screen to compose your shots. But when you set the camera to Movie mode, you're limited to Live View.
One component in the optical system of a dSLR camera like the Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D 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.
Your choice of exposure mode determines how much control you have over picture settings, including options that affect exposure, color, and autofocusing features. Set the exposure mode via the Mode dial shown here. For the most control, switch to P, Tv, Av, or M mode. Canon refers to those modes as Creative Zone modes; the others are Basic Zone modes.
After you take a picture on the Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D, it automatically appears on the monitor for 2 seconds. You can adjust the post-capture display time via the Image Review option on Shooting Menu 1, shown here. (The figure shows the menu as it appears in P, Tv, Av, and M exposure modes; the Basic Zone version contains a few different options, but both menus contain the Image Review setting.
The Video Snapshot feature on the Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D 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, I doubt you'll find much use for this feature.
When you spot clunkers during your picture and movie review, use the Erase button or Erase Images function on the Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D's Playback Menu 1 to get rid of them.The following list explains options for erasing a single file, a group of files, or all files — again, with the exception of protected files: Eraseimages one at a time: Display the photo in single-image view or select it in Index view.
The Slide Show feature on your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D 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 Rebel T7i/800D 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 P, Tv, Av, or M exposure mode, choose Time-Lapse Movie from Shooting Menu 5; in other exposure modes, from Shooting Menu 3.
Your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D 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 figure.
To help ensure a proper exposure, your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D 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.
Have you ever received an email message containing a photo so large that you can't view the whole thing on your monitor without scrolling the email window? This annoyance occurs because monitors can display only a limited number of pixels. The exact number depends on the screen resolution setting, but suffice it to say that most of today's digital cameras produce photos with pixel counts in excess of what the monitor can handle.
After unpacking your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D 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. 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.
You can protect pictures and movies from accidental erasure on your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D by giving them protected status. After you take this step, the camera doesn't allow you to delete the file from your memory card by using the erase options. (The only way to wipe a protected file off a memory card is to use the Format Card command, found on Setup Menu 1.
Everything in space is moving and turning. Objects can't sit still. Thanks to gravity, other celestial bodies are always pulling on a star, planet, galaxy, or spacecraft. Some of us are self-centered, but the universe has no center.For example, Earth Turns on its axis — what astronomers call rotating — and takes one day to turn all the way around.
Like most dSLRs sold today, your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D 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 to shift from viewfinder shooting to Live View mode.
If you're never used a dSLR before, you may be unfamiliar with how to operate the lens on the Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D. The following basics are specific to the 18–55mm kit lens sold with the T7i/800D, but they apply to many other lenses that support autofocusing with the camera. (You should explore the lens manual for specifics, of course.
Your Canon EOS Rebel T7i/800D camera 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 is HTC-100. Before connecting the two devices, make sure that the Video System option on Setup Menu 3 is set to the video standard used in the region in which you're screening your work.
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