Best Canon EOS 2000D / Rebel T7 settings
Hello in this video I am going to show you how to set up your Canon Rebel T 7
or EOS 2000D straight out of the box.
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useful introduction to the camera and it also tells you about other similar
cameras which are available on the market today. It is an entirely free
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Well the first thing I would like to say is that if you have bought this Canon T7 or
EOS 2000D, then you have bought an excellent DSLR camera. The main
difference between this camera and the Canon T6 or 1300D is the file size and
now the 24 megapixel file size which is in this camera puts the T7 on a par with
the best cameras in its category and so you have got no excuse for not taking
some great pictures with this camera.
So let's set the camera up properly. The first thing you need to do is to charge
your battery .You probably got the battery when you bought the camera and
the first inclination is to put the battery in and start taking
pictures , but it is recommended to charge the battery fully before you put it into
the camera and the reason for that is it will help to extend the battery life. It
only takes three or four hours and it is worth doing if it helps extend the
battery life and you don't have to buy a new one. So charge your battery and then
if we look here - I will just turn this around so we can see it - this is where
the battery goes into the bottom of the camera. You open the door like this and
if you look at the battery then you see that you've got the electrodes on one
end and there will ll be a Canon logo on the battery so you have the electrodes
facing the camera and the logo facing you and it will go in like that. Like
most modern batteries it will only go in one way
so if it doesn't go in very easily then the chances are you have got it in the
wrong way around and when it goes in it will click with this clip here that
keeps the battery in and when you want to take the battery out you just undo
the clip and it bounces out. The second thing to do is to put in your memory
card now most professionals that I know tend to use SanDisk memory cards and
there is one good reason for that and that is that most of these cards have a
lifetime guarantee that means that if the disc gets damaged or
corrupted in any way that is not through negligence then SanDisk will replace the
card. It is worth bearing in mind though that they will not replace the content
on the card, because they don't know what that is obviously , so if you've got a 16
gigabyte card and you've got 10 gigabytes of information - videos and
stills - on it and then it becomes corrupted they will only replace the
card and that is an important lesson to learn right from the start .It is a
good idea in fact it is essential to have somewhere where you can keep
these pictures and videos permanently and safely and that usually means it is
an external hard drive but at least when you have shot some pictures it is a good
idea to put them into your desktop on on a laptop or onto your desktop computer
to keep them safe but an external hard drive really is
recommended. This is the card and likewise it has the electrical
conductors here and it has the logo on the front and if you put it this way so
that the logo faces you and it goes into that little slot above the battery then
you can just slide it in again and shut the door and that is your camera with
the battery and the memory card now the next thing you need to do is put on the
lens .This is the kit lens that came with the camera
it's an EF-S 18 to 55 millimeter kit lens which is a pretty good lens and it's
certainly a very good starter lens it gives you a lot of scope to take lots of
different types of pictures. This Canon camera is an APS-C camera which means
it is a crop frame camera. There are two types of camera for DSLRs
essentially for 35mm anyway. it is a full-frame or it's a crop frame. This is
a crop frame camera which means that the sensor is slightly smaller than a full
frame and the advantage for that is that the camera is
lighter and the lenses are smaller and lighter and the quality is still
professional level quality. This camera will take either EF-S or EF lenses
but the recommended lens group for this is the EF-S group of lenses and when you
change your lens, now or in other times, try to keep the camera in such a way
that dust and dirt can't drop into it. The reason for that is that the sensor
inside of here is very sensitive and if it gets dust and dirt on it then it will
damage not just the sensor but it will affect your pictures and your videos and
it is incredibly difficult to clean so the recommendation is that you don't
leave the camera open any longer than it needs to be open and that you keep it
facing roughly downwards to prevent anything dropping into it. So let's just
take this off the lens to start off with and then we will take the front cover off
the camera keeping it slightly facing down now if we look at the lens there is
a white square here and if we look on the ring here there is a white
dot and you need to just marry those up and turn it clockwise until you hear the
click. Once it has clicked it means it is fixed onto the camera and because it is
an EF-S lens it is now communicating with the camera and so it will help with
autofocus and auto exposure .The next thing you need to do is switch it on.
When you want to go into the menus in the camera it's very important to make
sure that you are on manual mode and the reason for that is that when you press
menu button you get all the menu tabs going across the top. If for any reason
you were on a different semi-automatic or a completely automatic option then
when you press the menu options you don't get all the tabs going across the
top and so it is important to be in manual when you start to change things
inside your camera. The first time the camera is switched on
the screen will ask you to set the date the time zone and the language. The date
and time information will be added to the metadata for each image that you
shoot you can change these details by using the cross keys and pressing set.
oOce you have set the time and date you can now set the date format either the
UK version which is date month and year or you can choose a different one either
year month and date or month date and year. once you've chosen the one you want
you press that again and then you go on to daylight saving time and you go on to
the time zone and region once everything is correct you can just press ok. If you
want to go back at any time to change the time the date or the language you will
find them in setup tab two. The next thing you need to do is format your card. If
it is a new card or a card that you have taken from a previous camera it is really
important to format it so that the card and the camera will work together. The
way you do that is by pressing menu and then moving up to setup tab 1 and here
you can see format the card. The important thing to remember here is when
you format the card you will lose everything. Even pictures and videos
which you may have protected will be deleted so you must know that everything
that's on the card has either been copied or is something that you don't
want before you format your card. But if you are happy to do that
then you click OK and it will format the card and prepare it for use by this
camera. Best Canon Rebel T7 set up video.
The next thing to do is to look through the viewfinder and to see if what you
can see through it looks sharp. If you don't have 20/20 vision or if you
wear glasses then, even though the autofocus on the camera gets the picture
absolutely sharp, when you are looking through the viewfinder
it may look out-of-focus. By using the dioptric adjuster here you can change the
view through the viewfinder so that it is sharp to you when the camera says it's sharp.
Bbear in mind that if you have the lens on autofocus the camera will
automatically focus the image even if it doesn't look sharp to you through the
viewfinder. If you find the brightness of the LCD monitor either too bright or too
dark then you can change that by going to setup tab 2. If you click on LCD
brightness then you can choose to either make it brighter or darker.
However do remember that the optimum setting for checking exposure on the
live view screen is 4. There is nothing more irritating than the camera
switching itself off when you are still trying to compose a picture. Whilst it
helps to save the battery life it can interrupt your train of thought and slow
you down. You can change the length of time it takes for the camera to turn off
by going to setup tab 1 and choosing auto power off. Here you see you have
a choice between 30 seconds and 15 minutes and you can disable it
completely if you choose. I find that setting it to one minute is a good
compromise .The ISO setting manages the sensitivity of your sensor to the light
coming into the camera. The Canon T7 will be on auto ISO setting to begin with
which is very convenient in most cases. However you will want to control this at
some point not least because the ISO setting has a direct impact on the
quality of your image. It is easy to control the ISO by using the Cross Keys
press the top one labelled ISO and the ISO options will appear on the LCD
screen as a rule of thumb is o 100 to 400 is suitable for sunny or bright
light 400 to 1600 for overcast or dusk and 1600 to 6400
for low-light and nighttime shots. The next thing to consider is the file size
and compression ratio the Canon T7 will shoot a 24 megapixel file and that is a
very high quality image the JPEG compression rate will decide the quality
of the image when it's stored on your memory card and also how many images you
can save on your card obviously it's best to choose the best
compression rate to make the choice go into shooting tab 1 and go to the top
choice which is image quality you'll see that this is on large which is 24
megapixels the quarter circle next to the L
represents the best compression quality you can see here that I can save 448
images like this .If I move down 1 to medium compression quality you will see
that that number goes up to 915 even though the file stays the same size.
If I change the file size from large to medium with best compression quality the
number of images I can save changes again and if I change that to medium
compression the number goes up again. However because today you can buy very
large memory cards I prefer to choose large file size and best compression
quality. If you want to know more then whyt not take a look at our manual
which has been specially written for this camera. In fact, we are giving away a
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Best canon eos 2000D set up video