Canon® EOS Rebel XSi/450D Digital Field Guide

Chapter 5. Customizing the Rebel XSi/450D

In This Chapter

• Setting Custom Functions

• Customizing My Menu

• Changing the screen color

One of the first things most photographers do when setting up a new camera is to customize it for their personal shooting preferences. The EOS Rebel XSi/450D offers excellent options for customizing the operation of controls and buttons and the shooting functionality, both for everyday shooting and for shooting specific scenes and subjects.

The XSi/450D offers three helpful features for customizing the use and operation of the camera.

• Custom Functions. Thirteen Custom Functions allow you to control functions ranging from whether digital noise reduction is applied for long-exposure and high-ISO images to the way the camera controls operate.

• My Menu. This is a feature where you can place six of your most often used menu items in priority order on a single menu for fast access.

• LCD Screen Colors. Whether it's a matter of increasing the readability of the LCD shooting information display, or just adding a bit of color and pizzazz to it, you have four options for personalizing the look of the display.

These customization features used separately and in combination provide a great way to spend less time tweaking camera settings and more time shooting.

Setting Custom Functions

Custom Functions enable you to customize camera controls and operations to better suit your shooting style; and, as a result, they can save you significant time. The XSi/450D offers 13 Custom Functions ...