Mastering the EOS 7D
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Mastering the EOS 7D Especially written for Canon EOS users A simple, modern approach to mastering all the advanced features on your Canon EOS 7D camera which allows you to take even better images Written by Nina Bailey About this book PREVIEW EDITION This book is designed for photographers who through it is a few years old it still offers a very good by learning to use the settings that are relevant to have used EOS cameras for a reasonable length of focusing system. The extensive range of features allow the images that you shoot. This book sets out to give time and have recently upgraded or as a follow on you to cope with a very wide range of subjects and you the knowledge you need to confidently use the volume from the Getting started with your EOS 7D make it a camera that you will not easily outgrow. features necessary for your photography. (illustrated bottom left) which looks at the basic features and key operation of the camera and also However, as is so often the case with modern explains the basic settings that are generally used technology, this flexibility with the ways that it can within photography today. be used inevitably increases the complexity of the camera. Therefore to use it to its fullest extent the This book sets out to look at the advanced features photographer will require a good understanding of that are offered by the camera and teach you how the features that it has and when they should be to use the camera to its very fullest extent. There is a used. very small amount of overlap at the start of the book as it is important for all photographers to familiarise With any of the EOS cameras, no photographer uses themselves with some of the basic controls the all the features, in fact most photographers will only camera has. The book assumes a good understanding ever use about 25% of the features their cameras of the terms used within photography and that have. However, each photographer will use different you will understand when and how the modes the features and settings which are so often defined by camera offers are used, as these are covered in depth the subjects that they photograph. in the Getting started with your 7D book. There is no one setting that works for every subject The EOS 7D set new standards for focusing and even that you are likely to tackle, you get the best results Written, designed and images by Nina Bailey www.ninabailey.co.uk Produced by Nina Bailey © 2016. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, reproduction, hiring, lending prohibited. 2 About the author PREVIEW EDITION Nina started her career Magazine and Principal Lecturer of EOS Training in the retail sector of the Academy. As technical editor Nina writes a lot of photographic industry and the magazines features and her images appear then moved to Canon UK regularly in most issues. where she had a successful nine years looking after In 2014 Nina started producing her own range of training, exhibitions and ebooks to bring photography training to an ever marketing both in the UK and wider audience and now has a range of over 30 also within Europe. This gave Nina an unrivalled books which are available as ebooks but can mostly knowledge not only of the Canon EOS system also be produced as limited edition print copies. but also how to develop and enhance the skills of Nina started taking images when she was very photographers of all ability levels. young and is still a very keen photographer both Nina started her own business in 1999, concentrating professionally and personally. on training for amateur photographers. She Nina loves travel, landscape and wildlife developed and produces content for the Online photography and still shoots commercially within EOS Training Academy after also writing and the travel photography market. producing a range of 23 training DVDs especially for Canon EOS photographers which the Online Nina also leads photographic trips, the last one was training academy now supersedes. to Madagascar and there are more trips planned including Vietnam and Cambodia in 2018. In 2015 EOS Training academy merged with EOS Magazine and Nina is Technical Editor of EOS 3 Contents PREVIEW EDITION About the 7D 6 C.Fn II 16 - AF Microadjustment 51 About the K values 98 About the 7D 7 Focusing and drive selection 52 How important are these settings 99 7D and the V2 firmware update 8 Focusing and its connection with metering systems 53 Why is white balance needed? 100 Focusing summary 55 White balance presets 101 01 Layout changes 9 Daylight preset 102 About the layout 10 04 Image processing 56 Shady preset 103 Top plate 11 Why look at image processing 57 Cloudy preset 104 Rear of camera 12 What does image processing do? 58 Artificial lighting types 105 Using the Q button to set the camera’s key functions 13 How the format you shoot affects these options 59 Using live view to assess white balance 106 Advantages of having the INFO screen displayed 14 Understanding picture styles 60 Tungsten preset 107 Using the Q button to set the playback functions 15 Setting picture styles 61 Fluorescent preset 108 Standard picture style 62 Flash preset 109 02 The menu system 16 Portrait picture style 63 Custom white balance 110 The menu - Basic operation 17 Landscape picture style 64 The K setting 112 The shoot menus - Shoot 1 18 Neutral picture style 65 How to set the K setting 113 The playback menus 19 Faithful picture style 65 White balance bracketing 114 Highlight Alert 20 Monochrome picture style 65 White balance shift 115 The set up menus 21 Customising picture styles 68 Auto exposure and metering overrides 116 The My Menu - menus 24 What can be customised in the picture styles-Sharpening 69 Understanding metering 117 Menu summary 25 What can be customised in the picture styles-Contrast 70 What we see versus what we get 119 What can be customised in the picture styles-Saturation 71 How focusing and metering interact 121 03 The focusing system 26 What can be customised in the picture styles-Colour tone 72 Tools to help you assess correct exposure 122 About the focusing system 27 Using the monochrome picture style options 73 How to set the metering 123 Why focusing sometimes fails 29 Using monochrome picture style options - filter effects 74 Understanding evaluative metering 124 The focusing basics 32 Using monochrome picture style options - toning effects 75 Understanding partial metering 126 One shot AF 33 Downloadable picture styles 76 Understanding spot metering 128 AI Focus AF 34 Picture style editor 78 Understanding centreweighted metering 129 AI Servo AF 35 Long exposure noise reduction 79 Focusing point selection 37 High ISO noise reduction 81 06 Camera customisations 130 19 point Auto select 39 High ISO noise reduction - example images 82 About the camera customisations 131 Zone AF 40 Auto lighting optimizer 83 Camera user settings 132 Additional focusing areas 42 Highlight tone priority 85 Custom shooting modes - warning! 134 Manual selection 1 point AF 43 Peripheral illumination correction 87 Custom functions 135 AF point expansion 44 In camera RAW processing 88 Custom controls 138 C.Fn III -Tracking customisations 45 Image processing summary 92 Custom controls - shutter button 140 C.Fn III 3 & 2 46 Custom controls - AF On button 141 C.Fn III 4 - Lens drive when AF impossible 47 05 Other camera settings 93 Custom controls - AE Lock/FE Lock button 142 C.Fn III 7 - Manual AF selection pattern 48 About the other camera settings 94 Custom controls - DOF preview button 143 C.Fn III 8,9 and 10 Display options 49 About the 7D’s ISO range 95 Custom controls - Lens AF Stop button 144 C.Fn III 12 - Orientation linked AF point 50 White balance systems and overrides 97 Custom controls - Multi Function button 145 4 Contents PREVIEW EDITION Custom controls - Set button 146 Custom controls - Main dial 147 Custom controls - Quick control dial 148 Custom controls - Multi controller 149 Camera customisation summary 150 Other products and services 151 5 PREVIEW EDITION About the EOS 7D About the 7D PREVIEW EDITION The 7D introduced a high performance auto focusing system to the enthusiast range of EOS models, allowing even more photographers to tackle action photography successfully. The camera was current in the market for many years and in 2012 had a major firmware upgrade released that extended its current life even further. The camera features 19 AF points with a high degree of configuration and customisation for specific types of shooting being possible. As there are a lot of features and options available on this model and the fact that it lacks many of the easier full auto modes found on models aimed and more basic photographers, this is a camera that requires good familiarity to use effectively and get consistent results. The 7D is designed as a 1.6x crop sensor model suitable for all areas of photography, the crop factor allowing more reasonably size and priced lenses to be used and allowing better reach with the more affordable telephoto lenses within the Canon range. The camera body is compatibly with both the EF and EF-S range of Canon lenses. 7 7D and the V2 firmware update PREVIEW EDITION The EOS 7D had it’s life in the market extended in mid 2012 with a new firmware update. This added some additional functionality to the camera which brought it a little more in line with some of the current cameras at the time.