Canon 6D How to Use || Canon 6D Body Tour and Menu Walkthrough

I've reviewed the Canon 60 which I borrowed from Luma calm, I did a quick review and a longer more in-depth review, but now it's time to get down to the mechanics of the camera. In this video, I'll take you on a tour of the body, show you all of the buttons and dials and talk about what they do and also walk through the menus. I'll talk about every single item and at least a little bit about what it does. Let's start with the body tour. Starting on the front of the body. We have the name badge with the microphone under it. This is the lens release button and here's your lens. I have a 40-millimeter f 2.8 pancake lens on right now. Over here is the depth of field preview button. This is the remote control sensor and this is the self-timer lamp. it flashes when you're using the self-timer. Down here is the DC coupler cord hole. This is where the cord comes out of the battery compartment when you use DC power, which brings us to the bottom of the camera where you see the battery compartment and then this is the tripod socket. Now on this side of the body is the card slot. This camera takes one SD memory card you can also see the mount for the strap. Moving to the other side of the camera you can see the other strap mount and also the microphone. These doors open so that you can get to the different ports that you might need. You have the audio video out the HDMI out an external microphone in which is nice because it means you can use an external mic when shooting video on this camera and you also have the remote control terminal. Now on the top of the body. On this side is the mode dial when you press this lock release button and turn the dial you can move through the 60s different modes. This is the power switch and the center is the hot shoe. And over on this side is the shutter release button and the main dial. Then this row of buttons which you use in combination with the dials to make changes to how the camera operates. You have autofocus operation drive mode, ISO sensitivity metering mode, and a button that will illuminate the LCD panel right here. In the LCD panel. You see many of your camera's current settings, and then this is the focal plane mark. Moving to the back of the camera starting right in the middle. This is the LCD monitor. Over here is the multi-controller with the Set button in the middle. The multi-controller spins around like a wheel and also tilts in eight directions like buttons. You use these for a lot of things like to navigate and make selections in the menus or move through your photos and playback. You also use these in combination with other buttons on the camera body to make changes to settings we need that is the multifunction lock switch. This locks the main dial on the top of the camera, the quick control dial, and the multi-controller from moving. This can be handy if you don't want them to move around and advertently and possibly change a setting over here is the access lamp. This tells you when the memory card is being accessed don't remove the card while this is illuminated. Moving out this is the playback button which will bring your photos up on the LCD monitor. Above that is the index slash magnify slash reduce button. When in playback after you hit this button, you can use the main command dial to zoom in to the image on a screen or zoom out and even view thumbnails of several images on the screen. Here's the quick control button. When you hit this button, a bunch of your settings comes up on the LCD screen. You can then move through those settings and make changes using the multi-controller and set buttons. This allows you to quickly see how you have your camera set and make changes to some of the most commonly used settings. Moving up is the live view and movie switch and button. If switch to the camera and press the button you'll be ready to take still photos in live view. I switched to the movie camera and press the button you'll be set up to shoot movies in live view.

This is the AF on the button, then the auto exposure lock slash flash exposure lock button. Then the autofocus point selection button. You use this with the multi-controller to change your autofocus point. In the middle here is the viewfinder along with a diopter adjustment knob. And here is the menu button which takes you to the menus and the info button. Pressing the info button a few times will bring up settings on the LCD monitor. That's all for the buttons and dials on the 60 body. Let's move into the menus. Before we get started though, if you don't see something that I am covering, don't fret not all of the menu items are available in all of the camera modes. In fact, there are entire menu sections that you won't see in the basic modes. So if you don't see something but you still want to play around with the setting, turn your dial over to manual so that you are sure to see everything The menu is broken down into 15 sections across the top here. Let's start at the beginning with the four sections at the shooting menu and shooting one the first menu item is image quality you press set and can see your options. Here you're controlling your image size and quality. You have the option to shoot in JPEG or raw or both. Let's start with the raw settings. you navigate between the raw settings using the main command dial on the top of the camera. You have raw which is a full-resolution raw image. Then you have m raw for medium raw and s raw for small raw and raw and s raw create reduced resolution image files. You also have this line. This means that a raw image will not be recorded. Now the JPEG options

Navigate through these with the left and right multi-controller buttons on the back of the camera. With these, you have a combination of symbols, letters, and numbers. Let's start with the letter L is large or high quality, M is medium quality and S is small or lower quality. Within each of these, you have different compression settings the symbol, the sharkfin-looking symbol will provide you with higher image quality than the stare symbol.

Nows two and s three don't have the symbol, they both have the higher quality compression settings and you also have the line meaning that a JPEG image will not be recorded. So once you make your choices you press set. By the way up top here you have your settings and file size and the resolution of the image or images plus the number of exposures you would be able to fit on the memory card with those choices. The next option is beep where you can prevent the camera from beeping when it finds focus, you have two options enable and disable. This is one of the first things that I do when I get a new camera I disable the beep. The next option is to release the shutter without a card. If you forget to put a memory card in the camera Do you want the shutter to still release if so choose to enable if not choose disable? Next is the image review. You can choose how long the image will appear on the LCD screen after you take it you can choose off, which is handy if you're trying to save battery life and don't really need to look at each image after you've taken it. Two seconds, four seconds eight seconds or hold where the image will be displayed until the camera powers off automatically. I talked about the auto power off in a few minutes when I cover the setup menu. Now into shooting to lens aberration correction is first when you press set you will see the lens you have on the camera at the top of the screen and two options at the bottom peripheral illumination and chromatic aberration. peripheral illumination corrects vignetting and chromatic aberration prevents color fringing along the line between light and dark on both of these you can enable to allow the camera to correct these things are disabled to have it do nothing. Next external speed light control. You may have noticed during the body tour that there is no onboard flash. However, this is where you can control an optional X series speed light you have several options here. First is flash firing where you can disable the speed light and entirely. This is handy if you want to use the flashes autofocus assist beam capability, but not the flash itself. Next is a TTL to the meter where you choose your flash metering mode. Either evaluative, which is good in most situations, or average

flash sync speed and aperture priority mode where you can set the flash sync speed you have three options. Flash function settings and flash custom settings are only available when you have a speed light on your camera and the settings here depend upon which speed light you're using, but you will be able to choose things like flash mode and set up wireless functions. You can also choose to clear all of these settings to return them to the default options. Last in this menu is mirror lockup. Enabling mirror lockup prevents the mirror from flapping which prevents possible camera shake when a photo is taken. Shooting three and four will not be available to you if you are in the basic zone nodes they won't even appear in other modes though you'll see these in shooting three first. The first menu item here is exposure compensation slash auto exposure bracketing. Here even use your left and right multi-controller buttons to choose the exposure compensation you have from minus five to plus five and 1/3 stop increments, then you can turn your main dial to choose your auto exposure bracketing range up to plus-minus three stops.

Next is ISO speed settings with multiple options. First is ISO speed where you choose your ISO number on this scale or auto where the camera will choose for you. Then you have an ISO speed range where you choose the minimum and maximum ISO sensitivity that you want to be allowed. In auto ISO range you choose the range that the camera will use an auto ISO then you have minimum shutter speed, which is where you can choose the minimum shutter speed the camera will use when auto ISO is active. Next is the auto lighting optimizer where you can have the camera correct the brightness and contrast of an image automatically, you can choose the level of correction low standard high, or off. Then you can press the info button to check the box to disable auto lighting optimizer when in manual or bulb mode. In white balance, you can choose the white balance setting the camera will use you have nine options including auto, and then you have a custom white balance or you can create a custom white balance setting for your light source. This is handy when none of the existing light balance options is giving you a natural look. To begin setting a custom white balance you must take a photo of plain white options such as a white piece of computer paper or a gray card being lit by the light that you are looking to set for then you navigate to it here and press set again for that to be set in the custom white balance slot. Then you can use it when you choose custom white balance in the white balance options. It will remain there until you go back into this menu item and select a different white or gray photo. White Balance shift slash bracketing is next. Here you can adjust the white balance on this graph by moving the point around with multi-controller buttons then you can use the multi-controller wheel to choose to bracket. When you've made your choices press set now