David Busch's Canon EOS 80D Guide to Digital SLR Photography

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Canon EOS 80D Roadmap

One thing that surprises new owners of the Canon EOS 80D is that the camera has a total of 496 buttons, dials, switches, levers, latches, and knobs bristling from its surface. Okay, I lied. Actually, the real number is closer to two dozen controls and adjustments, just among the physical components and not counting the virtual controls on the touch screen. But that’s still a lot of components to master, especially when you consider that many of these controls serve double-duty to give you access to multiple functions.

Traditionally, there have been two ways of providing a roadmap to guide you through this maze of features. One approach uses two or three tiny 2 × 3–inch black-and-white line drawings or photos impaled ...