Red 2 and Blue 1

Menus: Explained
Bella Mullen and Aaditya Bahl
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How to Get There

1. Turn on Camera
a. Canon Rebel T5
2. Click “menu” button
3. Use right arrows to find the second
red window and the first blue window
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Red 2
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In a Nutshell…

✖ Settings adjust color and exposure

✖ Also adjusts light settings
✖ Options for white balance and
slight color changing
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Expo.comp./AEB

✖ Goes from -7 to 7
✖ Controls exposure
○ How much light in picture
✖ Lower number = Darker Image
✖ Higher number = Brighter Image
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Auto Lighting Optimizer

✖ Second menu option down

✖ Adjusts shadows and highlights
✖ Functions as a contrast adjustment
✖ Can only be fully used in manual
○ In automatic, you have no control over
what adjustments are made
✖ Settings: High, Standard, Low,
Disable
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Metering Mode

✖ Automatically controls the exposure

for best exposure
✖ Three modes
○ Evaluative Metering - analyzes entire
frame
○ Partial Metering - analyzes the center
10%
○ Center-weighted Average Metering -
analyzes whole image but focuses more
on the center while balancing the rest of
the image
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Custom White Balance

✖ Gives you the option to use WB (White

Balance) Data
✖ Process of removing unrealistic color
casts
✖ Objects which appear white are
rendered white
✖ Needs to take color temperature into
account
✖ A “Yes” or “No” option
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White Balance Shift Bracketing

✖ Shifts the colors of an image to a

certain color
○ Magenta
○ Blue
○ Green
○ Amber
✖ Used in mixed lighting to balance
color
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Color Space

✖ Two options: Adobe RBG or sRBG

✖ Adobe RBG is mainly used for
industrial purposes, such as
commercial printing
✖ For sRBG, image processing with
comnters must be compatible with
sRBG for it to work, otherwise the
image will look subdued
✖ sRBG recommended for normal
shooting
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Picture Style

✖ Adjusts the style of the picture

○ Auto - The camera decides which style is
most appropriate
○ Standard - produces the standard
characteristics of a picture
○ Portrait - reduces sharpening to keep
skin texture soft
○ Landscape - emphasizes greens and blues
○ Neutral - Reduces saturation and contrast
slightly
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Blue 1
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In a Nutshell...

✖ All post-shooting options

✖ After you have taken an image, you
have many options for what do with it
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Protect Image, Rotate Image, Erase

Image

✖ Protect image is for any deleting

accidents
✖ Rotate image is what it sounds like:
rotating an image
✖ You can erase multiple images at once
✖ Will move them to the trash
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Print Order

✖ The setting can help you print certain

pictures
✖ You can print all the pictures
✖ You can print one image
✖ You can select a folder to print
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Photobook Setup

✖ Arranges selected photos into specific

folder
✖ Can select about 1000 images per
folder
✖ Useful when making photobook
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Creative Filters
✖ 5 types of filters
○ Grainy B/W (creates a grainy black and white
photo. B/W effect can be changed by adjusting
contrast.)
○ Soft focus (Gives image a soft look. Degree of
softness can be changed by adjusting blur.)
○ Fish-eye effect (Barrel type distortion. Apparent
center resolution depends on number of
recorded pixels).
○ Toy camera effect (Darkens photo corners. Color
cast can be changed by adjusting color tone.)
○ Miniature effect (Can choose where the image
looks sharp. If you press the <DISP> button, you
can switch from vertical and horizontal
orientations)
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Resize

✖ Adjusts the size of an image

✖ Select an image and choose the size
you want
✖ The resizing depends on the quality
and zoom of the picture
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