User manual CANON EOS 500D

[. . . ] INSTRUCTION MANUAL ENGLISH INSTRUCTION MANUAL Thank you for purchasing a Canon product. The EOS 500D is a high-performance, digital single-lens reflex camera featuring fine-detail CMOS sensor with 15. 10 effective megapixels, DIGIC 4, high-precision and high-speed 9-point AF, approx. 3. 4 fps continuous shooting, Live View shooting, and Full HD (Full HighDefinition) movie shooting. The camera is highly responsive for shooting at anytime, provides many features for demanding shots, and has many other features. Take a Few Test Shots to Familiarize Yourself with the Camera With a digital camera, you can immediately view the image you have captured. While reading this manual, take a few test shots and see how they come out. [. . . ] Press the <A> button to focus in the current AF mode. 3 Shoot the movie. button to start Press the <A> shooting the movie. To stop shooting the movie, press <A> again. While the movie is being shot, the "o" mark will be displayed on the upper right of the screen. During movie shooting, do not point the lens toward the sun. The sun's heat can damage the camera's internal components. Cautions for movie shooting are on pages 127-128. If necessary, also read the Live View shooting cautions on pages 119 and 120. One continuous movie shoot will be recorded as one file. AE lock is possible by pressing the <Z> button. To cancel AE lock, press the <S> button. The ISO speed, shutter speed, and aperture are set automatically. Pressing the shutter button halfway displays the shutter speed and aperture (p. 126) at the screen bottom left. This is the exposure setting for taking a still photo. With a fully-charged Battery Pack LP-E5, the total shooting time will be as follows: At 23°C/73°F: Approx. 1 hr. 122 Movie Settings Function settings particular to movie shooting are explained here. Functions Set with a Menu Display the movie menu. Select the [k] menu tab. The menu options displayed are explained below. Movie-recording size [1920x1080] : Full HD (Full High-Definition) recording quality. [1280x720] : HD (High-Definition) recording quality. Total Movie Recording Time and File Size Per Minute Movierecording Size [1920x1080] [1280x720] [640x480] Total Recording Time 4GB Card 12 min. 165 MB/min. At [1920x1080], the movie is recorded at 20 frames per second (fps). At [1280x720] and [640x480], it will be 30 fps. The semi-transparent parts on the top and bottom or on the left and right will not be recorded. With ZoomBrowser EX/ImageBrowser (provided software), you can extract a still image from the movie. The still image quality will be as follows: Approx. [. . . ] 210 S Safety warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 SD/SDHC card Card Self-timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Sensor cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 142, 145 Sepia (Monochrome) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Sharpness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Shooting information display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110, 126, 161 Shooting mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 A-DEP (Automatic depth-of-field AE) . . . . . 82 M (Manual exposure) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Av (Aperture-priority AE) . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Tv (Shutter-priority AE). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 P (Program AE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 C (Creative Auto) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 1 (Full Auto). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 2 (Portrait) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 3 (Landscape) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 4 (Close-up) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 5 (Sports). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 6 (Night Portrait) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 7 (Flash Off) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 k (Movie shooting). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Shooting settings display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Shutter button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Shutter-priority AE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Slide show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Sound recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Speaker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 T Tone priority. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Toning effect (Monochrome) . . . . . . . . . . 90 Trimming (printing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Tv (Shutter-priority AE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ]