Jared Polin, froknowsphotos.com and I am here with the Canon 60D.
Now this camera is pretty new to me.
I've never owned a Canon digital SLR myself but for those of you who have this canon 60D
and don't understand what these buttons mean I am going to run through what each button
does what it means and sometimes I may not know what it means I've been reading the manual
to try to figure this out.
Like I said I haven't owned one of these but I want to give you the best information as
possible to help you figure out how to use your camera.
This is part one in part two I'm going to show you menu settings for how I would set
this camera if I was using it but really read the manual a lot of the answers are going
to be in here I'm going to go over pretty much the basics but if you want to know more
the manual is going to have it and just sitting and playing with the camera is really going
to help you out.
So for video for this video.
Part one.
I want to go over what the dials mean what the buttons mean not so much and tell you
what the functions are but not so much really show you how the menu changes and how that
affects your image so first things first you have your on and off switch Canon has put
it on the back of this camera.
You know each Canon camera is slightly different.
They're not all uniform you know where you go from one to the next and they're about
the same.
So in the 60D the on and off switch is right in the back.
It says on and off I'm sure you can figure that out switch it on to use it then if you
want to make sure that you can see your screen and see the pictures that you're taken or
look at your menu system you have to rotate the articulating screen.
And open it.
That means the LCD is facing you so that you can hit the button and see the menu system
so that you can then go ahead and make changes if it was the other way around.
You wouldn't be able to see what's going on the articulated screens a pretty cool thing
for shooting videos.
So my recommendation for using it is to really leave it just on the back like this unless
you get into the rare, rare circumstances where you need to try and get a photo that
is over your head or you know much lower.
I don't recommend that you sit here like in the commercials and start shooting pictures
like this first recommendation right there is the viewfinder which is right here.
You want to look through the viewfinder because that's how you're going to get the best pictures
in my mind more so than shooting live view but live view is an option that is there.
Let's run through the dial up top.
You've got your green mode now before I tell you how to change the dial the auto mode is
green.
It's the very basic settings the camera is going to do all the work you don't have to
do anything other than point shoot and get the picture that's that.
So now to change this dial Canon has changed us a little bit.
You have to press the center button and then rotate the dial to which ever whichever mode
you want it to be set to don't try to force the dial or you may break it and you're going
to be out to three hundred dollars for repair.
So don't forget to do that.
So let's run around the dial into the manual settings.
We go from auto to the then the P mode which is program.
It's basically auto but now you have change you have the ability to change your menu settings
which you didn't have in auto T.V. is shutter priority.
That means that you set the shutter speed and the camera is going to set the aperture
for you then we go to AV which is aperture priority aperture priority is going to then
I mean do they even call the AV aperture priority.
I don't know.
I called aperture priority because that's what I'm used to you set the aperture say
five point six and the camera is going to automatically set the shutter speed for you.
Then you've got manual you set your shutter speed and your aperture then they've got the
B mode.
That's bold mode that means as long as your finger is pressed down on the shutter the
shutter stays open show you the shutter button and when you release it.
The shutter closes giving you your picture.
So that's for long exposures.
But you literally have to be sitting there holding the button or plugged into the remote.
Then they have the C. mode I still don't know what this C mode is I looked in the book I
can't figure it out.
So maybe one of you guys out there knows what this C mode on the dial is and can help me
out but then you know I'm not going to talk about all of these because they're pretty
basic and they are pictures so you should know what the picture looks like and what
it means the flash with the box around it means in situations where you don't want the
flash to pop up like an auto the flash keeps popping up.
But when I go to this flash mode with the line through it.
The flash is not popping up.
Now it's still auto but the flash will not pop up then you have the CA mode.
These are these custom setting modes that you can then tell the camera do you want the
background to blur more do you want the background to blur less do you want it to be sharper
or do you want to shoot in continuous monochrome.
So there's a whole lot of settings here that we're going to go over in video number two
to help you set that function so that runs us around that there's one more thing you've
got this picture of a it looks like a video camera on a tripod when you go to that mode
that turns on the video mode which then blocks the viewfinder because the mirror flips up
then showing you a live view image as you can see on the back of the screen here.
So in order to start recording video in this mode.
There is a button here on the back that it looks like the back of the camera you press
that to start recording video when you're in that video mode.
Now let's talk about this button that's next to the viewfinder when you press it in any
other mode it's going to turn on live view in order to turn live you back off if you
press that button again.
But in live view if you want to take a picture you then hold the button down you focus you
do whatever you need the camera [indiscernible] [0:06:13] is a flash you press the button.
It takes the picture and live view comes back on most of the time you leave live view off.
There's a trash can button on the left side of the camera.
It looks just like a trash can.
That's how you delete a file you do not want to use how much time do we have I don't know.
Anyway that's what you do with the trash can.
That's how you delete pictures moving around the back you've got a menu button that turns
on the menu so that you can control your different settings that are in there info button which
when you're looking at the back of the camera will give you your virtual horizon that's
built in it will tell you what mode you're in it will tell you all of your settings.
So that is what the info buttons going to do it allows you to see everything that your
camera is set to and you do have the ability to make some changes when I figure out how
to do that which I can't figure out do I hit this button do I hit this button.
There it is yeah I see how to do it you can go through the screen with this up, up down,
down left right left right button.
It's the multi-selector button.
So you would hit up to move the arrows up you go down your menus like this then on the
outside of that button the inside of the button you have a set button you press a set button
that's like your Okay button that means you're setting that function in the camera that means
it's locking it in below that you have an unlock lock button because you can no longer
lock the spin dial on this camera with just a flick of a switch like you did on the 50D
and 40D.
You have the Q mode which brings up the screen you can.
It's a quick change mode.
You can quickly change the settings on the back of the camera and you have your play
button which is the sideways triangle that's how you playback your different files and
pictures in order to cycle through these pictures you rotate this dial on the back of the camera
and that will cycle through all of the pictures on the camera.
You have also an AF on button on the back which then when you press that that's another
way of focusing the camera instead of holding down the shutter speed halfway.
We haven't talked about the shutter button yet so this is the shutter button you press
this you hear a beep in this case because that's what I have set to you this is going
to auto focus when you fully press the button.
It's going to take a picture by when you when you do that.
So that's controlling your auto focus and taking the image AF on button like I said
will be another way to focus and then shoot.
That's a Canon thing.
Nikon does offer that I personally don't use that mode.
You have two more buttons on the back left hand side you've got one that controls auto
focus that's the checkerboard so by pressing that button that puts it into the auto, auto
focus mode.
No it doesn't.
Never mind.
I'm still figuring that one out the auto focus mode one is the one that has a square with
a bunch of dots in it you would press that and that's going to activate the auto focus
points and it's going to select them themselves.
Plus and minus when you're viewing images you can zoom in on photos we zoom out on photos.
That's is what it is as we move to the left of the camera you have a speaker on the side
right below where your strap goes then you have inputs for this camera you can input
a microphone like the one I'm wearing so you can have extra mikes you have an HDMI.
You also have a VGA out it comes with the cable so you can plug this into the T.V and
then it has a remote port where you plug the remote in and then you can shoot wired with
a remote.
On the front of the camera you have these four little holes the four little holes are
at your microphone below that is a lightning bolt when you press the lightning bolt your
flash is going to pop up when you're not in the No flash mode.
Did I forget anything on the back of the camera?
Not really on the side of the camera on the right hand side you've got a door to open
your SD card or where your SD card goes in literally press pull it this way.
It opens the door your card goes in only one way look at the picture on the back more buttons
on the front you release your lens by pressing this turning the lens towards you.
Lens comes off line up the white dot to the red dot turn it to clicks locks in you've
just taken your lens off and put it back on.
Moving around to the right side you've got a depth of field preview button.
So you can preview your depth of field is not a function that I personally ever use
moving to the top.
You've got your commander dial that changes your aperture when you're in manual mode and
also this is going to control some other features that I'm going to show you in video number
two.
But you have your AF button you press that once you can see that when you rotate either
the back dial or the top dial it is changing between one shot AI focus an AI servo that's
the AF button next to that is the drive button this is how you determine whether you're shooting
at high speed continuous frames or you know five point however many frames a second it
shoots or you can shoot at three point some frames a second or are you just going to shoot
single frames when in drive also you have control of your timer settings next to that
is your ISO that is the button you press when you want to set your ISO to whatever you want
to set it to and then you have your metering mode between evaluative metering your spot
metering and a few other metering modes that they offer.
Then you have something that looks like a light bulb it gives you a nice orangey color
lights up your screen and that really runs us through most of the simple things in this
camera like I said I'm still learning it.
Hopefully this helps you out to explain what some of the buttons do but really pick up
this manual as much as possible because it is going to help you out and really I'm going
to continue to read it so I know all of the functions so I can better learn it myself
so I can pass the information along to you other than that battery door is on the bottom.
It's pretty self-explanatory you can only put the battery in one way.
So that's basically a rundown of all the buttons on the Canon 60D.
I think I learned something here.
I hope you guys learned something.
Let's see.
Number two is coming up soon.
Click this box to go right to the second video which will explain how to set your menu and
how I would set my menu system.
Jared Polin froknowsphotos.com.