September 2008
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
9h 36m
English
Content preview from The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion
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GETTING TO KNOW THE REBEL XSI
THE LCD STATUS DISPLAY
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From left to right, the readout works as follows:
If the camera has chosen to use the flash, then it will display the flash• icon. e
flash icon will blink on and off, and the word busy will be displayed, until the
flash unit is charged and ready to go. If your battery has a good charge, this
shouldn’t take very long.
Next, the camera displays its chosen shutter speed and aperture. You’ll learn •
more about these in Chapter 5.
e Exposure Compensation display is shown next. It has a range of -2 stops •
to +2 stops.
Next comes ISO choice. For now, all you need to know is that the higher the •
number is, the grainier your images will be. Don’t worry about this now, we’ll
discuss it in more detail in more detail later.
Finally, you’ll see a number showing how many shots you can shoot before •
you will have to wait for the camera’s buffer to empty. e camera has enough
onboard RAM to shoot 9 images when in Full Auto mode. While this may not
sound like much, remember that as soon as you shoot, the camera immedi-
ately starts writing its buffer out to the storage card.
So, if you’re not shooting too fast, you’ll never come close to overrunning the
buffer. If you’re shooting bursts of images—at a sporting event, say—then you
might fill up the buffer, and have to wait a moment before you can shoot
again. You don’t have to wait until all ...
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