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While you’re looking through the viewfinder, you can adjust some shoot-
ing settings by using the Main dial alone or in conjunction with the function
buttons, as you do with the Shooting Settings screen. For example, if you’re
working in one of the advanced exposure modes (P, Tv, Av, M, or A-DEP) and
press the up cross key (which serves as the ISO button), all data but the cur-
rent ISO setting dims, and you can then rotate the Main dial to change the
setting. Press the shutter button halfway to return to the normal viewfinder
display after changing the setting.
Checking the Camera Settings display
In addition to the Shooting Settings display, you can view a collection of
additional settings data via the Camera Settings display, as shown in Figure
1-18. This screen is purely an informational tool, however; you can’t actually
adjust any of the reported settings from this screen.
To display the Camera Settings screen, first display the menu system by
pressing the Menu button. With the menu displayed, press the Disp button.
Figure 1-18 shows the settings that
you can monitor when shooting
in the advanced exposure modes.
Again, that’s P, Tv, Av, M, and A-DEP.
Here are the details you can glean
from the display, with settings listed
in the order they appear on the
screen.
✓
Freespace:
This value indicates
how much storage space is left
on your camera memory card.
How many pictures you can
fit into that space depends on
the Quality setting you select.
Chapter 2 explains this issue.
✓
Color Space:
This value tells you whether the camera is capturing
images in the sRGB or Adobe RGB color space, an advanced option that
you can investigate in Chapter 8.
✓
White Balance Shift/Bracketing:
Add this to the list of advanced color
options covered in Chapter 8.
✓
Live View Shooting:
Chapter 4 details this feature, which enables you to
use your monitor instead of the viewfinder to compose your shots.
Figure 1-18:
Press the Disp button when menu
is active to switch to this screen.
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