Hello. Today I'm going to show you how to set up new Canon Rebel T6, or 1300D,
as soon as you get it out of the box.
Hello and welcome to Camerawize. Today I'm going to show you how to set up your
Canon Rebel T6 or 1300D as it's called right from scratch. But first let
me tell you about the guide that we've got for the rebel T6. It is a really
useful introduction to the camera and it also tells you about the rivals which
are available on the market at the moment . It is an entirely free download and you
can click either here or on the description below to receive it absolutely free.
So here we go. This is the camera pretty much as it came out of
the box .I have fixed the strap on - that's important. This is the lens. I bought the
kit lens with it because I dont have any other Canon lenses.
This is the battery which is fully charged. It took about four hours but
it's recommended to fully charge the battery right from the start because it
does help the battery life. and this is a memory card which we're going to put in.
So to start off with. I can turn it around and you can see here, this on the bottom
is where you put the battery and the card. Open it very simply and the
battery - which is a Canon battery - if you have the Canon logo
facing you
it slides in very easily and obviously the way these batteries are designed
these days they're only going one way so you have to force it, it is probably the
wrong way. It has a little clip there just keep it in place which obviously
flick back if you want to take battery out. This is a memory card it's 4 GB.
Now the recommended memory cards, to be perfectly honest, are from SanDisk. They are
the professionals' choice basically they're reasonably expensive but not overly so
and the one thing that comes in their favouris that they have a lifetime guarantee.
Now please remember that this lifetime guarantee refers to the memory card not
the images on it so if you buy a 16Gb memory card and you have 15 GB of
information on it and then goes pear-shaped you're only going to get the
card back you're not going to get the 15GB.
So always, as a matter of course, try to save your images, your files and videos
somewhere even safer - and usually that means an external hard drive. But this
isn't a Sandisk I don't actually know where I got this, but these things crop up don't they, and
this goes in here with the label facing you and it
goes in so you just need to force it in until it clicks. Again it won't go in the
wrong way round so just be gentle with it and then you can close it like that.
Now, on the other side you can see I have the lens and the cap is still on here. It's very important
when you've got a digital camera to try and keep dust out of the internal
workings of the camera and so as a recommended practice whenever you change
lenses always try to have it
facing downward so that dust doesn't fall in and don't mess around
just change the lens straight away don't have it hanging around wide open. So now
this is my kit lens, it is an EF-S
18-55mm. The Rebel T6 will only have fully functioning EF and EF-S
lenses - we'll go in to that later in more detail. For this lends you see that there
is a white square here and there's also a white square here on the ring and you
line those two up and then you turn it clockwise, till it clicks.
So that is fitting the battery and fitting the card and also fitting the
lens and now we're going to go on to formatting the card and various other
things that we need to do to set the camera. The first time you switch the
camera on it will start on the time and date options. These are changed by
pressing set in the Cross Keys and then up or down to change the numbers. By
pressing set again and then left or right to move to the next set of options.
The first set of numbers is the date and then the second is the time
the next option lets you change the date to UK or American and as you can
see when it is changed the date changes above it too. You can choose daylight
saving and time zone. When everything is done press OK
Next we go to the menus and change the language. As you can see the
camera is set to manual mode on the mode dial.
This is so that you can see all the menu tabs along the top of the screen. So
when I press the menu button here they will appear. The language option is in
set up 2. Use the cross keys to navigate as you can see there are plenty
of languages to choose from but because we want English we don't have to change
anything. Next we need to format the card. It's really important that you should
format the card regularly . The format card option is in set up tab 1. It's
important to remember that when you format your card you will lose
everything on the card even those things you think may are protected.
So if you are happy to format press OK.
Your card should be formatted whenever you download your files so that any read or
write issues can be rectified. Next take a look through the viewfinder. If you wear
glasses or have poor eyesight you might need to adjust the viewfinder with the
dioptric adjuster which is the small dial right next to the viewfinder.
Remember this only changes your view through here it does not change what the
camera sees through the lens. Sometimes when you're working the LCD screen will
automatically switch off. This helps to save your battery life, but can be pretty
annoying. To switch it back on press the menu button. To change it go to Auto power off,
which is in Setup tab 1. As you can see you can extend it for up to 15
minutes or even disable it altogether, but I suggest extending it to one minute.
And that's the basic setup thank you for watching this video.
Remember if you want to see a free guide then click on the link here or the one
in the description below. If you want to see a superb manual about the Rebel T6
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If you just want to see videos about the Rebel T6 then click here or here and we'll
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