Canon EOS 90D For Dummies. Robert Correll
change when you switch from viewfinder photography to Live View (press the Start/Stop button with the Live View/Movie shooting switch set to Live View), and from still photography to Movie mode, which you accomplish by rotating the Live View/Movie Shooting switch to the movie-camera symbol. Figure 1-9 shows a menu screen as it appears for normal photography in the advanced exposure modes (P, Tv, Av, M, B, C1, and C2).FIGURE 1-9: You can access all menus only when the Mode dial is set to P, Tv, Av, M. B. C1, or C2.However, the following menu elements are common to all exposure modes:Menu icons: Along the top of the screen, you see icons representing individual menus. In the advanced exposure modes, you get the six menus labeled in Figure 1-9: Shooting, Playback, Wireless, Setup, Custom Functions, and My Menu. The Custom Functions menu and the My Menu feature, which enables you to build a custom menu, aren’t available in other exposure modes.Menu page numbers: Some menus are multi-page (sometimes called tabs) affairs. The numbers under the menu icons represent the various pages of the current menu. This book takes the same approach to page references as the Canon instruction manual: Shooting Menu 1 refers to page one of the Shooting menu, Shooting Menu 2 to page 2, and so on. How many pages appear for each menu depends, again, on the exposure mode and whether the camera is set to still photography viewfinder, Live View, or Movie mode.The highlighted menu icon marks the active menu; options on that menu appear automatically on the main part of the screen. In Figure 1-9, Shooting Menu 1 is active, for example.
Selecting a menu or menu page: You have these options:Touch screen: Tap the menu icon to select that menu; tap a page number to display that page.Multi-controller or Main dial: Press right or left on the Multi-controller or Joystick, or rotate the Main dial to scroll through the menu icons. If you use this technique, you have to scroll through all pages of a menu to get to the neighboring menu.Q button: Press the Q button to cycle through menu icons. This is a fast techcnique if you want to quickly scroll through the main menus. As you scroll through the menus, notice the color coding: Red for the Shooting menu, blue for the Playback menu, purple for the Wireless menu, mustard for the Setup menu, burnt orange for the Custom Functions menu, and green for My Menu.
Select and adjust a menu setting: Again, you have a choice of techniques:Touch screen: Tap the menu item to display options for that setting. The current setting is highlighted; tap another setting to select it. On some screens, you see a Set icon; if it appears, tap that icon to lock in your selection and exit the settings screen.Quick Control dial, directional keys on the Joystick/Multi-controller, and Set/center Joystick button: Rotate the Quick Control dial or press the up or down on the Multi-contoller or Joystick to highlight the menu setting and then press the Set or center Joystick button to display the available options for that setting. In most cases, you then use the Quick Control dial to highlight the desired option and press Set or the center Joystick button again. If you prefer, use the left/right Multi-controller or Joystick keys to highlight your preferred setting before pressing the Set or center Joystick button. You can mix and match techniques, by the way: For example, even if you access a menu option via the Joystick, you can use the touch-screen techniques to select a setting.
Instructions from this point forward assume that you don’t need to be told the specifics of how to select menus and menu options at every turn. So instead of stepping you through each button press or touch-screen tap required to adjust a setting, instructions simply say something like “Choose Image Quality from Shooting Menu 1.” If choosing a menu option involves any special steps, however, instructions offer guidance.
Navigating Custom Functions
Custom Functions are a group of advanced settings available only in the P, Tv, Av, M, B, C1, or C2 exposure modes. (Remember: You set the exposure mode via the Mode dial on top of the camera.)
To explore Custom Functions, navigate to the Custom Functions menu and select a Custom Function category, as shown on the left in Figure 1-10. Press Set or the center Joystick button to display specific Custom Functions, as shown on the right in the figure. Here’s a guide to using the Custom Function screens, which work a little differently from other menu screens:
FIGURE 1-10: Navigate to the Custom Functions menu to access additional customization options.
Interpreting the screens: The Custom Functions screens are a little intimidating until you know what’s what:Custom Functions are grouped into three categories: Exposure, Autofocus, and Operation/Others. The category number and name appear in the upper-left corner of the screen. In Figure 1-10, for example, the label indicates that you’re looking at a screen from the Autofocus category. (C.Fn II refers to Custom Functions group two.)The number of the selected function appears in the upper-right corner. Custom Function II: 15 is shown in Figure 1-10.Settings for the current function appear in the middle of the screen. Blue text indicates the current setting. The default setting is represented by the number 0. So in Figure 1-10, Auto is selected and is the default setting.Numbers at the bottom of the screen show you the current setting for all Custom Functions in the current category. The top row of numbers represents the Custom Functions, with the currently selected function indicated with a tiny red horizontal bar over the number (15, in the figure). The lower row shows the number of the current setting for each Custom Function; again, 0 represents the default.Dashes, shown for example under Custom Function II-1, reflect settings that aren’t organized into lists. This is Canon’s way of letting you know that this menu option controls more than one camera setting (thus, there isn’t one single default setting). If you change those settings, a blue dot replaces the dash.
Scrolling from one Custom Function to the next: Use the Quick Control dial or press the left or right arrows using the Joystick or Multi-controller or tap the left or right scroll arrows at the top of the screen. You can see the arrows in the right screen in Figure 1-10.
Changing the setting: You first must activate the menu by pressing the Set or center Joystick button or tapping one of the available setting options. The screen then changes to look similar to the one shown on the left in Figure 1-11, with the currently selected option highlighted. To select a different option, highlight it by tapping it or pressing up or down using the Joystick or Multi-controller. You can also rotate through options using the Quick Control dial.To lock in your setting and deactivate the settings screen, tap the Set icon or press the Set or center Joystick button. The screen returns to its inactive state, as shown on the right in Figure 1-11, with the setting you selected appearing in blue and the row of digits at the bottom of the screen reflecting the number for that setting. Again, a blue number at the bottom indicates that you chose a setting other than the default.
Exiting the Custom Functions submenu: Tap the Menu icon in the lower-right corner of the screen or press the Menu button. Press Menu again to exit the menu system entirely and return to shooting.
FIGURE 1-11: After you select a setting (left), the menu screen updates to reflect your choice (right).
Customizing the Touch Screen
Your camera’s touch screen works much like the ones found on smartphones and other touch-based devices. When the touch screen is enabled, as it is by default, you can simply touch the monitor to choose menu commands, change picture settings, scroll through your pictures, and more.
How you touch the screen depends on the task at hand. Here’s a rundown of