Canon EOS R6 User's Guide

[Music] jared polin froknowsphoto.com and this is a user guide for the canon eos r6 now if you purchased one congratulations on purchasing this mirrorless camera if you're looking for more information on this camera we have a full real world review that you could find in the links down below so you can check out my full review of this camera so this video is going to cover the very basics of setting up your r6 but it's also going to go into details on how i would personally set up the menu because it's important to have someone walk you through it because not everybody's going to read the actual user guides that come with the camera though it's not a bad resource to turn to if you do have a question but i'm gonna go through what i think are the most important settings to set as well as what each one of them means so that you can have a better understanding of how you can set the camera for yourself because this is just how i would do it for me and you may find over time that you want to set it a certain way for yourself so we're going to start at the very basic beginning part and remember that if you want to skip ahead because you don't need the basic information like how to put a lens on that's okay just jump ahead to the next section but now let's start with the outside of the camera like i said this is the very basic stuff but it's all right if you don't know this you just need someone to show it to you and that's why we're making this video let's start on the bottom of the camera with where the battery goes right here you just flick this door open and look there's your battery you pop it out you can only put it in one way you can't put it in the wrong way you can just put the contacts down move the white switch out of the way with the battery pop it in and go boom like that you close the door and you're good to go as a little word of warning or advice when you pop the door open the camera will turn itself off because it knows not to shoot when the door is open so make sure you have that closed you may notice that there is this little contact here this is if you get a battery grip an external battery grip that allows you to put two batteries in as well as shoot vertical and have other buttons and dials on it that's where that would plug into on the bottom of the camera and as a good rule of thumb it's good to have multiple batteries when you're starting out just in case something happens to one or one battery isn't charged you at least have another one as a backup it's a couple bucks extra to spend but it's always good because when you're traveling and one battery is out of juice and the other isn't well at least you have a backup next moving on to the memory card slot right here on the right side of the camera you have your memory card door you just go like that let it flip open you can see that there are two sd card slots right now i only have one card in there i personally shoot when i'm doing all of my shoots and i have two slots i'm always putting two cards in to the camera because i'm able to shoot redundant which means the same files to one card as the other card just in case something ever happens to one card you still have the other card with the data so right here is your sd card we have in here a pro grade digital 64 gigabyte card you can check them out at progradedigital.com now look we've got this notch on the top of the sd card you can see that there is a picture you got the picture of it steven a little bit yeah there's a picture right there it shows you which way the notch goes you just put the card in the slot you press it in you hear the click that means it's in to take it out yeah press it and you take it out just like that close the door and you are good to go again next let's move on to the lens how do we take it off because it's already on and how do we put it on this was one of the scariest things ever when i started taking photos was oh my god how do i take off the lens and how do i put another one on well it's really simple so i'm not going to show you i'm going to take it off don't look alright so we have the lens off right here inside of the camera this is your shutter you have the option of having this come down when the camera's off which is what i recommend and i believe it's on by default it actually is on by default because we reset this camera to start fresh to make this video never touch that never look well you can look at it but you generally don't want to have it open too long you don't want to let dust in but never touch that shutter because the sensor is behind it you don't want to break that shutter and you also don't want to scratch a sensor but do you see this red line right here you've got a red line right there on the camera and you have a red line right here on the lens all you need to do is line both of them up like this they're lined up and in this case if it's in my left hand i'm turning it away from me until we hear the click and it's now on to remove the lens i always recommend that you turn off the camera first you press this button right here that's your lens release button and you rotate it and the lens comes off so you can switch lenses it's not that hard to do you line it up right there line it up here and go boom now if you're wondering what lens i have on the camera right now this is the 50 millimeter 1.8 rf lens it's a pretty affordable 50 millimeter 1.8 that i highly recommend if you're just starting out you pick up something like this for like 200 bucks it's not very expensive but you can check out the entire rf lineup that canon has at canon dot us slash fro rf lenses they have a ton of different lenses there that you can look at i do highly recommend the rf lenses they are all fantastic now that we have the lens on the battery in and the memory card in the camera how do we turn it on well we got an on and off switch right here it says off currently we just flick it to on i know i said that this you know was very simple and i know this is very basic stuff but it's good to learn if you want to jump ahead jump ahead but it's always good to do this this activates your camera obviously it powers it on to turn it off you just flick it back the other way just like that and your camera turns off now moving around to this part of the camera we have our mode dial i currently have it set in manual so that i can fully control the camera but you may get it out of the box and it may be set on the green mode which is full auto that's not a bad place to start when you're just starting out that means the camera is going to make all the decisions for you but as you become more competent in your photography skills you can unlock the power of your camera simply by switching out of the green mode and you can do fv you can do p which stands for program it's like a full auto mode that gives you a little bit more control next we have tv this activates channel 29 uh it actually doesn't activate channel 29 wayne's world doesn't come on but tv stands for shutter priority meaning if you want the shutter to be 1 500th of a second it's going to be 1 500th of a second and then the camera is going to change the aperture and it's going to change the iso to make sure that 1 500th of a second is what you get next we go to av which stands for aperture priority so if you want it to say f4 it's going to stay at f4 and just like shutter priority aperture priority means you lock it in where you want it and the camera is going to do the rest of the job for you to make sure that your exposure is proper then we get back to manual b stands for bulb that means if you hold down your finger on the shutter button the shutter will stay open until you remove your finger from the shutter button next up we've got c1 c2 and c3 these are actually pretty powerful c buttons they're custom buttons meaning let's say if you are shooting indoors you have your settings that you want to have locked in you set that to c1 then say you go outdoors and it's much brighter you can quickly switch to c2 and it's going to have all the settings set the way that you set them for being outdoors it just helps you speed up your workflow to make sure that you're getting the settings right the way that you want them and then we have the camera module right here on the dial that's for when you want to shoot in video continuing on with the buttons on the camera now that we've gotten the dial out of the way this is your shutter button this is how you're going to control your auto focus as well as you're taking the picture if you press it halfway down that's going to allow you to activate the auto focus and then when you press it fully you can feel the difference can you feel it with me go ahead just massage that button just a little bit press it softly you can feel it gives a little bit but then when you press it fully it gives even more so one is activating the autofocus and then when you fully depress it down that's when you're taking the picture moving to the multi function button which is what this one is right here you would press that and that gives you a lot of control of a ton of settings while you're looking through the camera so if you want to quickly change one thing or the other you can hit this button and then right in front of your eye in the electronic viewfinder you can make the menu changes right here is a command dial this is where you can set whether you want to control the aperture or you want to control the shutter speed conversely there's another dial right here which is on the back thumb this could be the shutter speed or the aperture as well it becomes personal preference for how you'd like to set it up for your shooting style now there's a lock button right here that allows you to get john locke to come back from lost that's a deep pull that is a real deep pull lost was good until it went off the rails anyway that's where you can lock certain functions so you maybe can't touch the screen or some of the dials don't make any changes so you can lock and unlock it right there now this red button that looks like a record button is steven what is it it's a record button that's exactly what it is that's how you record your video you can start and you can press it again to stop recording video moving over to the center top of the camera this is your hot shoe this is where you're going to put a flash if you have an external flash this is where you can put a microphone if you're going to be recording audio because you're using this to shoot video that is your hot shoe and you see this line right here i honestly never knew what it was and i had to do some research and then i was like oh that makes sense i don't even know why it's here basically what this means is that's where the plane of the image sensor is inside of the camera so the inside of the camera just follow it over that's where the plane of the sensor is i don't even know why that's important but if you ever 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let's get back to the video coming around here to the back of the camera we have your electronic viewfinder this is what's called an evf electronic viewfinder and ovf is what we had with our dslrs that is an optical viewfinder meaning when you look through you're seeing what's happening through the actual lens in this case you're seeing a basically think of it like a mini tv your lens is gathering light and the image sensor is then taking it and showing it to you in here in real time you won't see any lag these viewfinders are fantastic you put your eye up to this to take your pictures oh while we're at it can i show you how to properly hold the camera when you are shooting this is how you do it you go like this you know you get your get your wings flapping a little bit you tuck your elbows in like this you put it up to your eye in my case i'm left eyed so i use my left eye if you use your right eye your right eye dominant then you put your right eye up to it but you see where this hand is you put it underneath a lot of times you see people do this that's the quickest way to know that someone's an amateur is this but it's also not as stable more stable is this you want those three points of contact you go boom boom and your feet become the third you're like a human tripod i know it's my nickname sometimes hashtag human tripod but you just do this and this is how you hold the camera you may also see some people doing this look if you buy this camera there's a good possibility that you shouldn't shoot like this it's not very stable it's just much more professional for you to put your eye up to the camera to get the photo the only time i will say that it's okay not to look through the camera is if you need to put the camera all the way up in the air like this or all the way down low and you can't get your eye into the viewfinder that's when i'm okay with you doing that now what is this little thing below the optical viewfinder this is your proximity sensor so what it means is when you put your eye up to the viewfinder that is where you're going to see the image let me let me demonstrate here flicking on the camera let me rotate this screen right here you see how we have the screen on right now because my eye isn't against it but watch this as i block the proximity sensor now it switches to the electronic viewfinder and back again it's basically instant so that's what's happening you can control this inside the camera you can change the settings to to which comes on and which doesn't go on but yeah you just do this and if you're wondering because you're shooting in the rain one day and your screen just won't stay on just make sure you actually don't have water up against this sensor right here because it can actually trigger it which is what it's done to me in the past if you're somebody who wears glasses and you want to shoot with your glasses but it looks blurry through the viewfinder for some reason or if your eyes are just blurry and you want to try and tighten it up a little bit we've got a diopter right here you basically focus on something in a distance or actually better than focusing at something on the distance you'll see inside of the electronic viewfinder when you put your eye up to it a bunch of numbers at the bottom of the screen or if you go into the menu system and it looks blurry to you well then just change the diopter either rotate it up or rotate it down until it looks nice and sharp and clean and nice and crisp and that way you know that your diopter is set perfectly for your eyes or for your glasses since i just mentioned the screen here it is right here it flips out and it rotates you can actually shut it in case you're traveling and you don't want anything hitting against it i've had these you know i've had a screen since 2003 with my first dslr and knock on some wood i haven't i don't even want to say it but this can protect your screen if you're putting it in a bag you don't want to bounce it around but you can protect the screen like that now this comes out flips out and rotates so that if you're shooting video or like this if we're vlogging you could see it right here or if you need to shoot a photo over your head you can hold it up like this or you could hold it down like this near the ground if you want to shoot from the hip or you want to shoot from lower but this is also a touch screen so everything you do in the menu you'll be able to touch this and control it it's not like m c hammer who's you can't touch this you can touch this they got mchammer wants to make a new canon commercial he was like can touch this that's right it's a good joke it's a good joke whatever all right we're gonna rotate it back like this continuing with more buttons we've got the rate button r-a-t-e the rate button is say you take a picture you really like it you can set this to rate the picture to say five stars and so when you bring it into adobe lightroom it's gonna be rated as a five-star already now if you don't use that button you can change it you can map it to something else inside of the menu speaking of menu this is your menu button you go ahead and hit that let me turn on the camera and show you and the menu then pops on we're gonna go through the full menu system in the next section we're going to set all of that up so turn the camera back off over here we have a joystick this is where you can move your focusing points you just put your thumb on it it's in a really good spot you can move those focusing points you can press it to get your focusing points to go back to the center you can go through the menu system uh you can move around an image when you zoom in on it you see that steven zoom in on it because we've got the zoom in button if you want to enlarge an image while you're looking through the viewfinder or the or at the lcd screen when you're previewing it you can press that and you can zoom in you can either move it around pinch to zoom just like your phone it's really easy to do next up we have the info button it does exactly this it gives you info i'll turn the camera on again as you hit it you can see it's changing the options on the screen so you find one that works for you and you go from there next to that is the cue button this is a really powerful button you can see there are so many different options you could use the joystick that we just talked about to move around or you can physically touch it like m c hammer says you can touch this you can physically touch different things on the screen and that's how you can control it that cue button is super duper powerful below the cue button you have a command wheel which you can rotate that can change your aperture if you want to set it to that that can change your iso remember most of these buttons if not all of them are mappable to different types of settings that you want to set these cameras are highly adaptable to your needs you have a set button right in the middle so you can just hit set it's like your enter and ok button below that we've got your play button you hit play it shows you back the images right here on the screen and next to that you have a trash can that when you hit it we're at sesame street and oscar the grouch comes out that's actually how you delete images i recommend not deleting images inside the camera save that for later because you don't want to accidentally delete something that you didn't want to delete now let's flip to the bottom of the camera we already know that this is where your battery goes but this right here is your tripod socket this is where you plug it into a tripod or you screw in your your tripod plate right into the bottom of the camera now over here on the right hand side this is where you have all of your inputs you have these rubber things that move out of the way that helps weather seal your camera so make sure that those are in there you've got a microphone input that's where you plug in the mic going in so you want to record the audio you have a headphone headphone and by headphone i actually mean headphone output so that's where you plug in to listen to your headphones you have a remote control button so that's where you would plug that into you have an hdmi a micro hdmi port as well as usb c now we love the usbc because you can charge the battery if you have one of those power bricks that can charge a phone with usbc you can now charge your camera so if you're going to be using it for an extended period of time or say you're sitting on a bus somewhere i don't know why you'd be on a bus but you're touring and you need more juice in your camera just plug it in let it charge up and you're good to go and now the front of the camera we already know that this is the button that releases your lens you press that in to unlock and release the lens right here by the eos you see a hole that is a microphone and right here over next to the canon that is another hole for a microphone as well the audio that it's going to give you is going to be okay it's not going to be the greatest audio since sliced bread but it does get the job done this is a light indicator it's an led light that will blink if you're going to take photos say two seconds five seconds on timer this will blink and then go solid when it's about to take the picture and it also may help you in lower light situations when it needs help focusing but i always turn that function off and we'll see that in the function menu as well we've got a depth of field preview button which is something similar to what you had with your film cameras i've never used it with my film cameras i've never used it with my digital cameras but you can map this button to some other function that you find more useful and right here we have an rf receiver so if you want to control the camera from far away you could like press a button control it through rf and then you can trigger the camera from there i just realized i forgot a couple of buttons on the back here we've got af on that's if you want to do back button focus that's not something i personally recommend you may find people on the internets you know the internets of things telling you that oh we should back button focus i don't like doing back button focus especially with these mirrorless cameras and especially the r6 which has fantastic autofocus on its own next you have these two buttons on the right hand side the one on the right is for controlling activating focusing points this is more of both of these buttons are more of something old-school that we used to do with dslrs that we don't really use the the normal functions that they're set to because we don't have to anymore but the good news is you can map this button out for something else and use it for something that has more function for your needs and now it's time to walk you through the menu settings to show you how i would set up this camera now before i do that you may notice there's something different here on the set this is what's called an atomos recorder this is what allows us to record the menu system so that you can see it on your screen perfectly as you would see it on the back of yours now the only difference here is that when i'm plugged into this i can no longer use the touchscreen on the back of the r6 which means i'll have to use the joystick and other buttons to do that but remember in the menu system you can touch the screen for whatever menu setting that you want because you have touch screen options there now let's hit menu do you see all of the options i've got four different options under the first one but right now i'm in auto mode i'm still in the green mode now when i switch out of the green mode watch what happens we're going to go all the way to manual i'm going to hit menu again holy shmaggis that's the word i decided to use there's now a ton of more menu options that you have because when you get into the manual modes you can unlock the power of this camera and that's what i want to do here is if you're going to be in the aperture priorities or shutter priorities and you're going to control the camera and i'm going to show you how i would set it in the manual modes so that you can get more power and unlock the power of grayskull all right right now we've got the first thing we see in red menu number one is image quality as you can see from my shirt i'm the guy who likes to shoot raw so here are your options you can set it to jpeg you can set it to raw i personally turn this dial you can touch the screen remember to raw so that i'm shooting raw now if you don't know what raw is it's the raw data that comes off of the image sensor it's not processed it's not compressed whereas a jpeg is a compressed file raw files are larger but they have more data and you can go back and edit them time and time again without losing any quality whereas with a jpeg it's what's called a baked file once you shoot it it's baked in and you can't really do the same amount of tweaks you don't have as much data raw file lots of data jpegs it has data but a heck of a lot less it's more compressed that's why i like to shoot raw now if you're just starting out i will recommend that you shoot raw plus jpeg it's going to take up more space on your memory card but you're going to thank me in the future when you realize that raw files are just better when you go and edit them in your editing software keep in mind that every raw file needs to be tweaked in a software like we use adobe lightroom where i have to edit each and every raw file but you get quick at it you can sync different files you can use presets we've got presets froknowsphoto.com fro pac3 you can check those out we'll talk more about those later in this video but just remember that raw files have more data and jpegs have less so in this case i'm going to raw and i'm going to set the jpegs to nothing and i hit the set button and now i am just shooting raw let me cut in here real quick and remind you that you can check out the entire canon rf lens lineup over at canon dot us slash fro rf lenses over there you can see everything that they offer including this 50 millimeter 1.8 which i highly recommend as a lens that you pick up now let's get back to the video next up we've got crop slash aspect ratio it is currently set to full now full means you're using that full image sensor to capture the image they also have 1.6 which is a 1.6 x crop mode which is going to crop down on the sensor and put it into 1.6x mode so it looks like you're magnifying the image or you're getting closer with your zoom but in essence you're just taking away from the pixels that you're capturing you've got one-to-one mode which is very similar say if you were shooting for instagram and you wanted square you could do that you've got 4-3 which is old tv style and you've got 16 by nine which is movie style now i do want to tell you something that if you're shooting raw which i do highly recommend that even if you're in say one to one you're going to see an overlay inside of the viewfinder that you know what i'm just gonna show you i'm gonna go to one to one and i'm gonna do this i'm gonna take off the lens cap that's one to one you see how it's a square but we can change it back we can go like this we can go back to full and show you and now it's back to using the full sensor so here we go we're going back to the menu now the reason i bring this up is because if you shoot in jpeg it's going to be cropped one to one no matter what so you can't get that information back after the fact moving on to the second menu option you've got exposure compensation i generally leave this set exactly where it is now i may not hit on every single function of this camera or this would be an eight hour long video i'm gonna go to the things that i personally use i may skip around i may skip some things now you can dig into those menus yourself and you can see if there's something in there you want to know more about but i'm giving you the top level stuff that i personally would do iso speed settings now it's currently set to iso auto i personally don't use that if you're just starting out it's not a bad idea to start in auto iso that means the camera is going to set the iso for you i go in here and i just i'll go to 100 look it goes from 100 all the way up to 12 800 25 600 wow all the way up to 100 2 400. so you can individually select your iso yourself or leave it on auto i like to select it myself keep in mind you can control your iso from outside of the camera there's easy buttons that are already set for that but i'm just showing you the menus right now iso speed range means you could limit it if you don't want it to go up to 102 400 you could limit it to say i don't want it to go past 12 800 because you don't want it to rain grain you could do that you've got auto range meaning if you have auto iso on it will not go any lower than 100 because it can't and it won't go any higher than 25 600. next in the menu we've got minimum shutter speed is currently set to auto now you see this thing that says info and help yeah that's like a built-in user's guide inside of the camera if you hit the info button it's like help it tells you exactly what it is takes effect in p and av shooting modes and then you can read the rest so it's only affecting your auto modes uh i just leave this set to auto and i go from there because i'm always shooting in manual next we have hdrpq settings now if you want to shoot heave format instead of jpegs you can go into here and you can make certain changes to give yourself an 8-bit file instead of a 10-bit file if you need to get stuff out into the world quicker there you could do it i never set this because i just stick to shooting raw and i don't change that next up we have auto lighting optimizer which is currently set to off when you're in manual uh because i'm always in manual it's always going to be off now i like to not let the camera do most of the work i want to make the decisions for me so that's why some of these things i just leave on off highlight tone priority i also leave this on off as well let's hit info to read about it it says improves gradation in bright areas of images highlights enables or enhances may increase noise in darker areas the iso speed value can be set from iso 200 and above again i want to be in control of everything so i don't change this i leave it on off anti-flicker shoot is currently set to disabled now this is interesting let's say you're shooting inside of a gymnasium and they still have older lights that flicker it's going to help you not get any issues when you take the pictures in terms of the flickering that's going on the camera is going to be smart enough to know that oh it's flickering wait a sec wait a split second wait a fraction of a second and then it's going to take the picture when it's not giving you that flicker so that is a very useful mode in certain lighting situations where there may be flickering light that's something you can set on the in the menus so you can hit a button and activate it when you need to next up is external speed light control if we're not using a flash that really doesn't matter for us right now number three we've got white balance i personally leave this on auto which makes me eat some crow from what i said before i don't let the camera make decisions i do when it comes to auto white balance especially if i'm in situations where the color temperature is changing all the time but let me walk you through here and show you what you can do you've got auto white balance which is actually pretty good you can change it to daylight shade cloudy tungsten white fluorescent light flash custom and then color temperature so you can control this we dial it in for our lighting we probably have it set right now with our cameras dialed into the lights that we're using next up we've got custom white balance that's if you have a gray card you would go ahead and use this we've got white balance shift bracketing nope i leave that exactly where it is color space i leave it on srgb as well picture style's a whole different ball game now picture style i generally leave on either auto or standard but this is only affecting your jpeg files this is what i was talking about about baked this is where you would go in and be like oh i'm doing a portrait let me use portrait mode or i'm doing landscape well let me see is there something here oh yeah this is the best explanation i can give you let's say you shoot monochrome that means it's getting rid of all the color and you save it as a jpeg you can never get that color back now if you shot it in monochrome but you shot raw the preview that you would see i'm pretty sure would give you a black and white on the back of the screen but the raw color data is still there that it maintains it and you can get it back after the fact that's what i mean by a baked file if you took a whole bunch of wedding photos that you thought you were shooting color but for some reason it was in monochrome you can never get that back once you bake that file in so personally i either leave this in standard or auto or i make some slight tweaks to it so that the preview image looks good to me but it's not affecting my raw file clarity i leave right where it is lens aberration correction is another thing that i leave right where it is as well and then we move on to four yes this is long this is a lot of stuff i wish i could just send you my my files but i can't do that so here we go long exposure noise reduction thankfully it's off by default that's new um i leave that off because i don't want the camera to add any noise reduction to my images keep in mind it's going to affect the jpeg not the raw file high iso speed noise reduction meaning the higher iso you go the camera's going to implement some noise reduction to compensate for any noise or grain that it might find i put this on off so i leave that off because i don't want it to do any corrections for me next up is something that i've never actually used and probably never will use that says dust delete data i don't go in there and mess with that setting at all number five we've got multiple exposures wow that's something that i used to play with when i shot film so what that is is if you want to take one picture and take another picture but have it go on top of your other pictures basically the film isn't advancing because there's no film but yeah it would allow you to take two pictures on one frame that's fun if you want to play around so that is currently disabled hdr mode i have that off i keep it off we've got focus bracketing is another function that i keep off as well interval timer it's great that this camera has that let's jump in there real quick so you could enable it or you could disable it so i would say every 10 seconds it will take a photo for 10 shots so i take one photo 10 seconds later take another 10 seconds later take another 10 seconds take another 10 seconds later so you have all of those options that's great for time lapse that's great i mean that's a great thing to have built into the camera next up we've got bulb timer is currently disabled probably because i'm plugged into this hdmi port we've got shutter mode so right out of the box it's set to electronic first curtain that's where i shoot it you also have electronic now this is where you can shoot up to 20 frames per second with the electronic shutter so you can be taking a lot of photos this is also if you want to shoot in silent so it's going to be completely silent a shutter will not come down at all but if you're shooting with a flash that's where you would want to go in and use the mechanical shutter but so the two that i use electronic first curtain as well as electronic when i want to shoot silent or i want to get those 20 frames per second next up is release shutter without card i don't know why that is set to on that's going to be off because you don't want to take pictures without filming the camera which is in essence what that would have been doing next up number seven menu yes there's still a lot of menus we've got is image style stabilization mode is mode is currently on that's your ibis your image stabilization so if you're going to hand hold and shoot at slower shutter speeds the ibis is going to kick in and allow you to basically get a sharper image as long as the subject isn't moving now keep in mind that ibis doesn't mean that it's going to freeze your subject if they're running across and you're shooting at a slower shutter speed uh if you're on a tripod you can turn off ibis most likely because you don't want it to be hunting and searching while it's already on stable ground generally speaking it's going to be on for most of the time next up we've got digital is currently off now this affects video that's why the little video camera is there that's if you want to have extra stabilization in there but keep in mind it's going to crop you in further to compensate for any extra shake that you might have followed by still photo is we have this set to auto as well that means that the is is going to be active the whole time whether you're shooting photos or you're not shooting photos menu now we are oh geez we're still in seven we've got touch shutter is currently set to disabled that's if you were going to touch the back of the screen and tell it to take a picture i don't want that because sometimes my nose could actually do that i have that disabled image review image review is one of those things that i absolutely hate review duration i want off so what this means is when you take a picture if it was on two seconds that means that the picture would stay on your screen or in your viewfinder for two seconds after you take the picture or until you press the shutter button halfway down again so i turn that off we've got viewfinder review is also on disabled as well back into the menu uh we've got high speed display being that we're plugged into the hdmi that is currently grayed out so i can't hit it but we put it on the highest quality that you can get metering timer is set to eight seconds that's another thing that i leave on default uh exposure simulation is extremely important in this day and age so i have it enabled the whole time the only time you would disable this is if you're shooting with a flash or with strobe what this means is when you have it enabled you are seeing exactly what the exposure the final image is going to look like so if it looks super bright in your viewfinder like it's overexposed then it's going to come out that's what the picture's going to look like basically it's showing you what the final result is going to be when you look through your electronic viewfinder so that's why i always have it enabled if i'm using just my natural light if i'm using strobes then you're going to change that because the strobe it's not going to be able to keep up with that so you just turn it off for that section now shooting info display oh boy there's a lot of stuff here screen info settings look these are all the different options that you can have up on your screen you could have nothing up on your screen you could have just this up on your screen this becomes personal preference i don't like a ton of detail on the screen because it kind of takes away from my ability to see what i'm shooting but it becomes personal preference you can change turn some of these off like oh i don't want this to show up or i want this to show up you can have all of those options that you can cycle through next up we've got vf info toggle settings now you can change this when you hit it's what you see in your viewfinder when you hit the info button so you can see what the different options are right there you can also hit info here and edit that screen that becomes personal preference as well to find out what works best for you now vf vertical display is awesome canon added this where when you're shooting vertical the info actually now shows up at the bottom of the sc of the viewfinder in vertical so you go like this the info rotates to the bottom that is a plus so you're not trying to read it sideways grid display is off that's if you want to have the grid up to help you with your lines i personally keep that off histogram display now you can have it set to the brightness or you could have it rgb i rather see the brightness because that's more important for me and display size is currently set to large by default if you want to have your histogram in your viewfinder i highly suggest you put it on small next we've got focus distance now when you're in manual focus i'm not talking about the top dial being in manual you literally flick the switch on the side of the camera it's going to be what is displayed in the viewfinder when you do that they actually have a mode that helps you with manual focus line up the lines uh they're little triangles and then boom when it's in the middle you know you're in focus would you like to take better pictures in only 11 days well i created a free mini video course that you can sign up for right now at froknowsphoto.com 11 days moving to number eight so we've got vf display format so you can see there's display one as well as display two now if you're someone who wears glasses and you can't get your eye all the way up into the viewfinder you may find that display two works for you i like it to be big and bright and just beautiful in the viewfinder and fill the whole screen so i leave it on display one next up we've got display performance we've got power saving is currently on or smooth now smooth says quick moving subjects are displayed smoothly that's what i want i go into smooth and that's where i set it number nine we've got movie record quality now this is in the photo mode if you hit the red record button these are the settings that it's going to use so you can see that these are the options that we have but there's a lot more options when you flick that top dial and you go into the movie shooting mode so this is all personal preference where you want to shoot it sound recording is currently set to auto we can set the iso speed settings for video we can set the auto slow shutter for video as well so it's going to set the slowest shutter you can control where that is and then we got the shutter button function for movies as well you can half press to do meter plus autofocus or you can go in here and you can have it meter plus one shot af or metering only i leave it on default to the one that is set at now we're moving into the af menu i would call that the magenta menu or the pink menu we've got af operation is currently on one shot af which one shot means is that when you press your finger down halfway on the button it's going to focus and then if you don't move your finger off it's going to keep that focus locked where it was now af servo is continuous auto focus as long as you press the button halfway down it's going to continuously auto focus on the subject that's generally where we find ourselves shooting these days unless you are shooting an inanimate object that is not going to go anywhere we rely on the camera's auto focus system in servo to get the job done now you have af methods there's a lot of different ones you've got l plus tracking that's your lock on tracking you've got your spot af as well as one point af you've got expandable af area this is something that we used to use but to be honest with you i'll get to the other ones in a second but i use the l plus tracking quite often especially when i'm shooting moving subjects because the autofocus inside this camera is top notch and fantastic you've got expanded af area around so that's going to give you a lot of focusing points here but you then have to move those focusing points to move where the subject is going to be or you have to move that dependent upon where that subject is going to be so you're taking more control you've got zone af where the camera takes more control it just picks a zone and then it finds the right focusing point to use for you then we've got zone af for vertical same thing it's going to take the zones in the vertical area and it's going to use the focusing points that are in those boxes to find the right focusing point for the subject that you're shooting and then we've got large zone af horizontal or as they like to write horizontal and it's very similar to the others it's going to pick the focusing points that it wants based on the subject that you're photographing but i like to to to stay on the lock on tracking oh and and steven just reminded me for whatever reason i don't know if it's my eyes or that this this icon is supposed to be a smiley face plus tracking i always thought it was just an l with parentheses and a smiley face under it so it's the same thing it does exactly the same thing i thought it was lock on tracking all these years but it's uh he always corrects me because i've been doing this ever since we've gotten these cameras but that's how i said it now subject detect you've got people and you've got animal as well as no priority if you're photographing people guess what you do stephen yeah you leave it on people if you're photographing animals you put it onto animals but please don't make the mistake of of not changing it back check on whatever subject you're going to be photographing make sure that you're set to the one that you want we've got eye detection is currently enabled greatest feature ever since sliced bread is eye detection it's going to find the eye of your subject most of the time it's going to work really well so i rely on that and it's awesome continuous af is is disabled now that may sound confusing you're like but i want auto focus to be continuous what this means is even if you weren't pressing your finger halfway down on the button the camera is going to keep auto focusing so if i'm looking back at steven without pressing it it's going to try and just keep auto focusing i don't want the camera to be constantly doing that i want to tell the camera now it's time to auto focus now it's time to not so that is disabled we've got movie servo af so if you're shooting videos you will have continuous autofocus for shooting videos touch and drag af settings is really cool touch and drag af is currently disabled i like to go ahead and enable that then we've got positioning method we've got relative versus absolute i leave it on relative because i want my finger to go to the base this one's hard to explain you just have to try it but where i put my finger i want it to be relative to where it is on the screen so if i put it top left well then i want it to be relative to the top left if i put it on bottom right that's where i want it to show up opposed to the absolute which is what i don't use now active touch area is i generally use either actually i use the full right side of the screen because it's great you just can you get this stephen you can see this so basically i would put my thumb back here and this can help move the auto focusing points it is amazing that you could do that that's if you need to quickly move the auto focusing points because nine out of the ten times the camera's doing such a great job that you don't really need to tell it where to go but if i was to tell it where to go i would turn this on just like this number two under af we've got focus mode auto focus you could have the option for manual focus too which i don't ever do i stay on auto focus you have manual focus peaking settings which is actually pretty cool you can set this to on so that if you're going to do manual focus and you want to see peaking it's going to help you make sure that your edges are nice and sharp you can change that to level the different level high or low as well as the color from red yellow or blue depending on what you want that's personal preference i don't really leave this on but it will come in handy if you're shooting video or honestly if you're shooting manual photos it's a setting that you definitely want to use focus guide i leave this off i don't need any help with my focus because the camera's really darn good af assist beam firing i turn this off uh i don't want this on at all because if i'm shooting in a low light situation say i'm shooting at a concert which i haven't shot in a long time but if somebody can constantly see that light going on it's going to be annoying in their eye and it's going to be a distraction so i personally turn that off and i don't think you're going to run into any issues with your auto focus having that off next up we've got the servo af menu number three wow there's a lot that you can do with this there's a lot of tweaking you can do depending on the scenario that you're photographing like number one is case one is for versatile more multi-purpose setting you can see that there's a person running you can see there's a figure skater number two is case somebody is a tennis player continued to track the subjects ignoring possible obstacles three instant focus on subjects suddenly entering the a at your auto focusing points i personally leave it on one myself but you can go in here and change the tracking sensitivity you could also go all the way to auto where the camera is going to pick which one it thinks is the best for the scenario that you're in it's all dependent on what you're doing i generally leave it in one and i don't even think about it and it's been perfectly fine for me personally in the fourth page there's even more custom controls that you can set here we've got one shot af release priority you can set that to release or set it to focus let's hit the help button or in this case info for help focus priority no shot will be taken until the subject is in focus then you've got prioritize shutter release over focus you just have to figure out which one is right for you in this but we leave it set to focus where it is right out of the box switching tracking subjects is set to one you can read exactly what the screen does here it's self-explanatory lens drive when af is impossible i don't even let me let me let me read this one specify the lens operation when focus could not be achieved continue focus search yes i kind of wanted to do that i want it right stephen you want it to continuously focus for the search you want it to find it if it can't find it so we we leave that to there now limit af methods means if there's a method that you never use say i don't want to use zone or large zone or this these will no longer show up as options if i'm switching between them once you hit okay they no longer will be there you see that little uh asterisk star there that's the same when you hit this asterisk on the back here that's how you can go ahead and control those and quickly change them keep in mind a lot of these functions are still activated from the cue menu so you don't always have to dive deep into the menu to do this next we've got af method selection control that's with the mfn button that's the one that i keep set that if i want to control it from there i use that we've got orientation link af point so this means if you go vertical you can set it to separate af points if you're in vertical it's going to be in one place if you're in horizontal it's going to be in another i set this same for both vertical and horizontal next up we've got initial servo af point for smiley face box uh generally i have it set to auto steven likes to set it to af point set for this middle one which means you're gonna actually have a box that can be active but the camera's gonna do all the work but then you can move that focusing box if you want with your thumb on the back of the screen which is what i like doing or the joystick but i like using the thumb so that you can always have it active if you need to tell the camera like oh look over here this is where i want you to focus i leave it on auto but try both of them out to find out which one works best for you focus ring rotation i leave this set where it's at rf lens mf sensitivity is set where it is and then sensitivity af point select i have that left at zero as well and next up it's sensitivity af point selection if you want to move those points fast then go up to the plus if you want them to move slow which i don't know why you would want to move your focusing point slow you would go down but i leave it on the faster one because i want to move those focusing points fast to get to where i need it to be moving on we've got the playback menu now there's not a lot to change in here so i just go to menu number two to see what else is there print order photo book setup nothing i ever touch raw image processing if you need to edit raw files in the camera you can convert it to jpeg you could resize you could crop you could turn heave into jpegs i seriously wouldn't do any of this in the camera unless it was the last resort and you needed to quickly get something out there from a raw file or if you know that you need to quickly get something out there just shoot raw plus jpeg so i don't do anything there slideshow set image search conditions i don't change those but magnification i do change i actually go to actual size that gives me a one to one but what is important about this is when i zoom it's a one to one when you zoom in this is great to check to see if you're in focus and you'll know that say you're you want to focus on the eye or the camera was focusing on the eye and you zoom in and it goes right to the eye you know that it was working if it goes to like the background somewhere you're like yep nope wasn't working so that's what i do i don't do image jump i don't change that i don't uh switch or this i leave to disabled the rate button function we talked about that earlier you can change that to this rating to protect or to erase images nope don't want to do that so i don't really change any of those now five we've got playback information display holy 10 settings holy jesus we don't want all 10 of these right so if i don't need this i don't need the histogram one with all the colors i get rid of that i don't want this one or that one or that one or that one or that one oh jesus that's so much information that i don't want looks like i just want one and two i mean that's really the stuff that matters to me so that's what i go ahead and set it to because i don't want to have to switch through all of those other ones so that's playback information display highlight alert those are the blinky blinks so if you shoot the sky and it's super bright that's going to blink on you i will go ahead and enable that one we've got af point display i like seeing where my auto focusing point is that's pretty important so i go ahead and i enable that it's going to show me where the auto focusing point was when i shot the picture playback grid i leave off movie playback account record time is fine uh hdmi hdr output is currently off as well and we made it through a section super quick because there's not much to go through there next we've got the wi-fi and bluetooth connections now canon has something called the canon connect app that is fan freaking tastic it's what i use over at my desk when nobody's here and i need to take thumbnails of myself i go into the app i set it up i connect it with my wi-fi settings which i would go ahead and enable but right now because i'm plugged into hdmi i can't go ahead and show you there are other videos out there on the internet to show you how to do this it's really simple to set up canon did a fantastic job with this you set it up you can control your camera from your phone you can control the focusing points change all of your settings when to take the picture do you want it to be on a timer or not a timer you can switch into video mode and you can shoot videos with it it is a great option if you're a one-man band and you just want to sit in a chair and take photos of yourself or to take video next we've got reset communication settings in the purple menu that's if you want to reset them it's exactly what it is but i haven't had to touch that before next wrench under yellow we've got record function plus card folder select here it shows you a camera for stills and a camera for video and then it says separate so it's set to disable this means if it was set to enable it would save photos to one card and it would save video to the other card i like to have everything go to the same card now we've got record options for shooting stills you can have standard auto switch record separately which you could be like raw the one card jpeg to the other i do record to multiple i like to have like i was saying earlier i want raw files if i'm shooting raws to go to card one and to go to card two so it's redundant so it records to one and two i take a picture goes to one and two i take another picture it goes to one and two so that i always have redundancy just in case something happens next we've got record options for video now keep in mind you do not have the option to record video redundant so you can't have card 1 and card 2 saving video at the same time but you can have standard which means it will record to card one and then auto switch means it will continue on if you go over the card's limit you fill it up it will switch over to the second um so i guess you could leave this on auto switch card if you ever think you're going to do that then you have playback this is where it's going to play back the photos card one or card two this is card one and we've got for video same thing card one and then the folder name is just where it's gonna play back from the folder and i leave that set where it is would you like me to send you this free guide to capturing motion in low light situations well if you said yes just look for this orange box over on my website put your name email address in it hit send it and i will send you that guide for free next up we've got file numbering we've got continuous i always leave it on continuous so if i take 10 pictures i put a new card in there it's going to start on number 11. i always do continuous and what do you get up to 9999 stephen before it resets yeah so you get up to 9999 before it then goes ahead and resets back to zero file naming this is where you can change it this camera is set to one h4a you could totally change that if you want like i could do fro one or you could do all of these different options see that image plus image size which i don't want i leave it on the first one or i could change user settings right here and this is much easier if you can touch the screen which i can't i can't touch this uh he's back again but yeah let me see okay has been selected these settings on screen close after saving okay okay goodbye and i just leave it set to this so back into the menu format card i always format my cards right before it went well before i shoot i won't say right before but remember when you format a card i'm not gonna do it right now because i have some pictures on it but you would hit okay and it would format the memory card wiping it clean allowing it to talk to the camera and then you start fresh you can see that i have 912 megabytes used on a 59.7 gigabyte card that's available even though it's a 64 gigabyte card but it tells you format card all data will be lost do not format if you haven't backed up or saved your images yet another thing that i change is auto rotate so this is interesting it says on on camera and on on computer i don't like when i get a vertical image on my camera that only shows up when the camera is horizontally small so i turn it to just on on the computer because i don't want the picture rotating to be vertical on a horizontal screen so what i do is i turn my camera like this to look at the image so i can see it full screen much easier then we've got add camera rotation info that is currently set to disabled and i leave it there and date and time this is where you can change the time zone and everything it's pretty self-explanatory number two under the wrench we've got language so language whatever languages i was going to curse but i don't want to curse you can obviously change the language you could pick your german your french and your your dutch portuguese whatever you want i leave it in english because i don't speak any other languages video system i leave ntsc we've got help text i leave on small next we've got beep which is set to touch uh right there you could enable this to have beeping or you could disable it to have no beeping or in this case it will only beep when you are doing touch to focus headphone volume obviously you can set your headphone volume power savings we have it set to 30 minutes so it doesn't go off um but this is where you would want to set it to like we don't want that we want the display to go off after three minutes to save power but we have it so that we can continually record here without running into any issues eco mode you can turn that on to save power as well next we've got screen viewfinder display is set to auto one by default so that means if you flip out the screen it's only going to show you the screen and not show you the electronic viewfinder if you put your eye up against it so you have to then put it back or you could do auto switching which is if you do put your eye up to it and the viewfinder is still out it's going to go ahead and auto switch you just want to play with these to find the right setting for you screen brightness is for the back of your screen obviously the brighter it is if you're in a bright area it's going to be easier to see but there's a little secret here that canon has done and it's not really just canon but if it's super bright outside and you can't see the screen just put your eye up to the viewfinder because your face and your head will act and your fro will act as a natural shade from the sun allowing you to see the image much better in the viewfinder viewfinder brightness i like to leave set to auto the reason i do that is it gives me a better representation of what my exposure is it's going to be super close so if i'm if i'm in a bright area it's going to brighten it if i'm in a dark area it's going to even it out and make it a little darker next up is screen viewfinder color tone we leave that set to 2 which is where it's at by default fine tune vf color tone i don't mess with that and then ui magnification is set to disabled and i leave it exactly where it's at number four we've got hdmi resolution i leave that to auto touch control leave that on standard now multi-function lock remember when i talked about the lock many many minutes ago at the beginning this is where you can control what gets locked or what doesn't get locked so you can either turn them all off or if you just want to say we don't want touch control on we can deselect all of the other ones and then when you hit that you can no longer have touch control so that's that we've got shutter at shutdown so remember when i opened up the lens it took the lens off the camera and the shutter was closed you have the option where you could have the shutter actually be open and exposed at when you turn the camera off this is personal preference i do like that it's closed when the camera is off it gives me a little bit of extra security in protecting that sensor uh sensor cleaning right now it's automatically set to at power off so every time you turn off the camera it's going to automatically clean the sensor you could have it set to clean now you could have it set to clean manually um let me see can we disable this let's see automatically clean the sensor when the camera is turned on or off nope that's a pain in the ass and then we've got disabled so there's a reason why you would kind of disable this if you change lenses a lot and you have to now wait an extra fraction of a second for it to do the cleaning that's an option where i may consider to actually just disable it and then if i need to clean it i go in there and i hit clean now every once in a while and it will do the job for me number five we've got reset camera which we're not going to do because we just set it up most of it so you don't want to do that you've got custom shooting mode remember i talked about c1 c2 and c3 this is where you would go in and you would set those settings uh so that's where you set them we got battery info so i've taken 17 shots and i've used 25 of the battery power here the performance is all three green boxes is good as the performance of the battery starts to go after years which i've never really had major issues with batteries we've usually replaced them by then or have new cameras um it will let you know that the battery life is getting shorter but that's the same with all types of batteries copyright information you can enter your name it could be jared polin froknowsphoto that's your not not your name i mean that's my name but you would put your name in here enter copyright details so it's going to save that information in your metadata i highly recommend that you do that so that your information is saved with every photo that you take now you've got your manual and software url so if you want to get to your manual just uh point your camera at the back of this or go to that website and you can have the user guide that's not me explaining it to you certification logo display we don't need to see that and this is where you would go to update the firmware just make sure that it's on the latest firmware which may be different the time that you're watching this from the time that we're recording this next up we got the orange menu or we call this like the custom control settings area because this is where you can make really custom settings but on the first page i really don't change any of these i don't i don't change the bracketing the number of bracketed shots look if you want to change bracketed shots that's like say you would wanted the proper exposure then it would do one stop over one stop under if you want to do seven shots it would do one stop two stop three stops and then one stop two stops three stops under and then that regular one that would be the seven so that's where you can control your bracketed shots number two i don't change anything here as well custom buttons is where we change under three this is where it gets extreme i mean look at all the different custom buttons on the left you see the camera that's for stills and on the right you see the video camera that's custom buttons for there it's great that it's split so if you're in the video mode the custom buttons are the ones from the right if you're in the stills mode it's the ones from the left let me scroll down here and show you some of the options look at all of the different options that you can set that specific dial to it just keeps rotating through and you just have to go through here and set up your settings that that one is currently set for a custom button on a lens but you can totally go in there and change it any which way there's lots of options here for you to go through next we've got customized dials so say you don't want the iso to be set to this dial up here see the picture it's showing you on the screen that's this pic that's this actual dial here so if i don't want that to change that i would maybe change this to the way that i like to do it i like this to be my shutter speed so i would change this to shutter speed and then this other one the front dial top dial i like to change to aperture now that's personal preference that's just how i like to shoot that's that's how i do it i could change it the other way i could make the front dial i could make the top one shutter speed or the back dial aperture or i could even make this spinny dial in the back aperture it's personal preference depending on how you want to do your own shooting so you have a lot of different options there then we've got clear custom settings which we're not going to do because we just changed them number four we've got let's see ad cropping information is off audio compression that's another thing we turn off because we don't want compressed audio uh i don't change this the oscar the grouch setting i don't let's see release shutter without lens why would we want to take pictures without a lens on there hmm i mean there is one reason like wedding photographers like you turn your lens around backwards and you kind of shoot through it that's something that you could do but that's one of the only reasons you would do that retract lens on power off is on ad iptc information is currently off number five is clear all of them which we don't want to do and then we move to the star menu which is where you add my menu tab this is where you can add things to your own menu configure my menu one so let me select an item all right i want to get to [Music] interval timer quickly i could do this and i can register it to the page and i think that's it oh i have to hit set what i can do i was going to try to touch the screen and there we go and now i'm going to hit back and now that is going to be set right there see interval timer and then i hit another one for touch shutter but that's it guys and and by that's it i mean that that's a lot that is how i would set up my camera for shooting stills it's a lot of stuff but hopefully i gave you enough information to get a good jump start and then as you get better and more experienced you can start tweaking these settings for your liking now that we finished showing you how i would set up the camera for your photo settings there is a whole nother menu that is separate for your video settings so i've already switched in off from the top dial to the video mode so that we can unlock the video settings so that we can get into the screen that we're looking at right now and starting right here with red number one we've got shooting mode there are two options with the r6 you've got full auto mode for shooting video or you have full manual for shooting video we like the full manual for shooting video this is the time where you turn on auto iso so that you can set your settings the way that you want them to be for your shutter speed and aperture and then you let the camera smoothly make those transitions as you go from light areas and dark areas so we set it to manual but if if you're new to this game you may want to start off in full auto and just let the camera do what it needs to do but as you get better you can unlock more power and control when you move into manual mode now we've got movie recording quality we can go in here and you can see let's see we've got all of these different options we've got 4k at 60 frames 4k at 30 4k at 23.98 which is basically 4k at 24 p that is your more cinematic look that's how we're filming like that right now correct stephen yeah that's how we're filming right now and that's how we film i think all i would say 99.9 of our videos are filmed in this mode because it gives it that very cinematic look when you shoot at the 60 frames per second that gives you more of that video game look that tv look it's it just it doesn't have the cinematic feel but try them out for yourself and see which one works best for you so you also have full hd options and you just select the one generally speaking we're in 4k at this one now there is something called high frame rate it's currently disabled but when you do enable it check this out it tells you that audio is not recorded in high frame rate movies so we hit enable and now you can see that right here the movie record size went to fhd which is 1080 hd at frames per second when you shoot in this mode this is where you want to do slow motion say someone's golfing and you want to analyze their swing you go into this mode if they're doing baseball or their pitchers you could slow them down 120 frames per second that's how you can slow it down but remember there will be no audio recorded when you're in that mode so i'm going to go to disable just for now back in here we've got movie cropping is currently disabled what this means is when you enable it it's going to punch into what's called super 35 so it's going to give you a little more bang for your buck a little more reach if you need it if you're photographing or in this case filming birds it's going to give you a little bit more reach next we've got sound recording if you don't know what you're doing auto audio i almost said audio i always mess up audio and auto well you want to kind of leave it in auto if you don't know what you're doing if you do know what you're doing you go in here and you go into manual and you will control the audio yourself you just have to know the levels you don't want them peaking way too high into the red or you can totally disable it which means you're not recording audio at all so if you're in a situation where someone's like are you recording audio you're like no it's disabled then you want to make sure that it's disabled but if you need it to get auto i just did it again if you needed to record audio you would want to make sure that your auto audio is currently on this is the attenuator and it's currently disabled this is something that if you're going to do auto you want to enable it so it's going to raise and lower your levels as it sees fit so it's going to try and keep it as uniform as possible so that's what we recommend that you stay in but for now let me turn that to disable because i want to go back and show you the manual real quick we've got manual we've got record levels watch so let me just turn it all the way down and being that i'm right here you see how the levels aren't getting to 12. you want it at 12 correct stephen around 12. so boom i'm talking i'm talking that looks pretty good we're dialing it up and i'm talking and i'm peaking right around 12 but if i get super loud that's where you would want to go ahead and turn it down to compensate for it if we put it up super duper high you see how it's going to the red that means it's going to be peaking and that's not where you want your audio to be you're better off being slightly under than slightly over in this case moving on gonna throw this back into auto just for now back into the menu mode now we're jumping through to number two exposure compensation same as before when we discussed it iso speed settings we currently have it on auto as i said before it's kind of a good place to be unless you're locked off in a situation like this if we're in a situation like we're shooting right now we have our lights the lights aren't changing so we will lock our iso in we will lock our shutter speed and aperture in and we don't want the camera making any changes we don't want it to be like oh it's exposing for the white wall or it's explo exposing for the camera you don't need to do anything extreme there so you don't need auto iso in those situations um you can set your speed range like we talked about before if you don't want it to go past 25 000 or near 25 600 you'd be like okay don't go past 6 400 with that and you have those options that you can control right there next up we've got hdrpq this is something that's a lot more advanced and would take a whole video until unto itself to explain but if you are going to get into the more advanced world you may want to dig into hdrpq but right now it's very difficult to explain in a quick video like this auto light lighting optimizer i leave off highlight tone priority i leave off as well we've got eighth uh 1 8 stops in increments we have this disabled we like to enable this so that you can go at 1 8 stops with your aperture it gives you a little bit more control when you are shooting the video now let me actually show you that in action check this out we're at 5.6 but look at how i dial this down you're at 4.0 7 8 so you have more control over your aperture when you activate that so that's something that as you get a little more advanced you can take control of are you tired of your friends and family looking at your photos and saying these are the greatest things ever and you're not really sure because you don't trust their opinions because they're not a professional photographer but you want to get a professional photographer's opinion well why don't you let me be your mentor head on over to froknowsphoto.com mentorship because over there you can sign up for two different things one is a 45 minute live mentorship call on zoom with me and the other is a 15 minute recorded rapid fire critique so if you want to get some real feedback about your work go ahead and sign up for one of those two options now let's get back to the video moving on to number three white balance this is important i know we talked about this for stills but with the white balance you are baking this into the file because in essence your video is one big jpeg right so whatever your settings are in terms of your white balance it makes it very difficult to change it after the fact you can make subtle tweaks but this is something that you want to make sure when you're shooting either you're doing auto white balance but know that that may change from situation to situation or in this lighting situation we know what what temperature are these lights 56 yeah these lights are 5600 degrees kelvin so we set it to 5600 degrees kelvin because we know that it's going to be balanced the way that we want it um you've got your custom white balance you can go in and set which is what we do white balance correction picture style this is very important when it comes to video if you were to go ahead and leave this in monochrome then you're just going to get monochrome video if you were to do let's say landscape but you were interviewing someone and the colors were off then your colors are going to be off in your video so this is something that you want to lock in or as a recommendation standard's going to be pretty good and you can do some tweaks after the fact depending on what software you're using to edit the video just remember this is going to be baked in next up we've got canon log settings now this is a setting that gives you more flexibility in post it basically overrides all the picture styles and makes everything super flat but that means you're left with a super flat video right out of the camera but if you want to take more control of it in your editing software you then have to color grade it and then you have more control it just takes a lot more time now for something like this we don't shoot in canon log when we're making these videos because if this is a well over an hour long video it would take a lot of time to do moving on to number four lens aberration corrections i leave this exactly where the camera has them set i don't really worry about that high iso speed noise reduction so this is what i i disable this i don't want the noise reduction i don't want the smoothing i rather see the noise in the grain myself i think that's just much better to have a sharper image or video but remember everything we're doing in this section is just affecting your video so where we set picture style that's affecting your video that's not affecting your stills so remember that you may confuse the two but don't do that next up we've got hdr movie recording it's currently off we've got time lapse movie is currently disabled because i'm plugged into the hdmi port right here but if you're doing time lapse movie go into that setting and play with time-lapse movies that's a fun one to play with say you're you're out in the mountains and the clouds are going by and you you can then speed it up in the camera it looks it looks really cool that's a great feature number six we've got movie self timer is currently off it's the same thing like you press the button if you're at 10 seconds the movie won't start for 10 seconds it's kind of weird thing i don't even know why we would have that on remote control is currently disabled but you can go ahead and enable that if you want to control with a remote control is image stabilizer mode this is a good one to go into is is on if you're not on a tripod you kind of want it on the image stabilization in this camera is fantastic but say you're running around or you're let's see hmm on a go-cart hand-holding this and you want to get even more stability you can turn your digital is on but that's going to crop your image in a little more it may add a little bit of warping because there's some digital processing going on there but it does do a good job if you need that extra stability because of shake but generally speaking we leave this off unless we absolutely need it next up we've got shutter button function for movies it's set to meter plus uh servo for half press now for full press it has no function now you have an option that you can have it start and stop recording so where you take photos with the shutter button you can also set this to start and stop recording video so why not set that really or if you don't want to set that because you don't want to confuse the two for whatever reason you can just hit the red button which is up here on the top of the camera which we talked about at the very beginning of this video continuing on we're going to number eight isn't it great that we can move through this much quicker than the last one for photos we've got overheat control this is something that you want to put on in case you're shooting in a super hot area and the camera's like i'm getting too hot right now it's so hansel in here well you want that warning to know that maybe we should take a break we don't really get overheating with these r6s we haven't seen it so just just be cognizant of that you should leave that on next we've got hdmi display now unless you're shooting the way that we are where we need to show you the hdmi out with this display information this is not really something that you're going to go into too often now time codes if you're trying to connect or or record with multiple cameras and you want to sync up the time codes you're shooting movies that's something that you use we've never used time code in any of the 3000 plus videos that we've done but that is where it is and look at that we're now up to the af menu so we've got the af method is currently af with the it's not a lock on it's a smiley face i still don't see that for why do i always see l i guess that's just me it's set to subject detect for people if you're doing animals of course you're going to go to animals eye detection is enabled it's great for shooting movies to have it be able to find the eye especially if you're filming yourself and you're sitting in this chair you can have it find your eye now we do that for a lot of our videos where i'm moving around we let the camera find my eye because it does a fantastic job at doing it movie servo af is currently enabled we like that we've got touch and drag af settings same as before it's currently disabled but you can set it just like with your still images this is controlling how you can move the focusing points yourself if you're shooting video then we have focus mode which is set to af or if you want to control manual focus you can go ahead and control manual focus as well we kind of stick to auto focus now because the autofocus is just so amazing with these cameras now we've got manual focus peaking settings so if you're going to shoot in manual focus you're going to want to turn peaking on you're going to want to put the level high works and you've got your different color settings that you could use so this is to help you find the focus when you are shooting manually now we go back to the menu focus guide is currently off if you're going to shoot in manual focus you definitely want to put that focusing guide on because the camera is going to be like nope nope nope nope yep nope nope nope nope yep so basically that's something that you put on so that the camera can help you get that manual focus and get it right actually let me show you this so i'm going to turn focus guide back to on but there is one other thing that i need to change under menu one is i need to go to focus mode and put it into manual focus which i have here so here you go watch this you see how they're not lined up and it's like oh how do we do this oh i'm missing i'm missing you want to find it when it gets to the green box oh it's so subtle it's so subtle line up there it is and that's telling me that it's in focus why wouldn't we let the camera do this i don't know why would we want to do this ourselves i don't know either um but that's that's what it looks like so i'm gonna go back here we're gonna go back into auto go to menu two i'm gonna turn the focus guide off and then move over to number three movie servo af speed is right here it's always on now this is where you can set it so if you want it to be super fast it's going to move super fast or if you want more of that cinematic pull look where it's going to go slower in and out then you would go ahead and dial this down even further to slow or you could go up two more clicks from the default which is super fast and that's where you can go to have that super fast autofocus that where you don't need that cinematic pull we've got movie servo af track sensitivity is currently set to zero obviously you could go to lock on or you could go to responsive let me just hit the info it explains to you exactly what it is lock on responds less sensitively to other objects kind of like me i respond less sensitively to things like somebody's like i had a bad day i'm like cool good job that's less sensitive but if we wanted it to be more sensitive it'd be like i had a bad day and i'd be like sorry yeah yeah anyway that lens electronic manual focus i leave this set where it is switch tracking subject is currently set to one you know you have initial priority switch subject same thing as before we hit the info we can read set the ease of switching to other subjects from the subject current track takes effect when the af method is set to smiley face plus tracking large zone the different options that it gives you um yeah i mean this is just you play with it you find which one works best for you uh we leave it i generally leave it to one and it's been fine for what i've been shooting lens drive when af is impossible we let that keep going just like with stills we've got limit af methods same as before you can turn it off so if you want to switch between them and you don't want this one on you would just go ahead and turn it off uh in your menu so you don't see it come up anymore af method selection control that means if you hit the mfn button you can change your auto focusing options right from there it's like a quick key to get right to that and then number four we've got focus ring rotation leave exactly where it is rf lens mf focus ring sen same thing and i leave this set exactly the same way as well next we're getting into the playback modes same as before i don't change anything in the playback modes here it's it's basically the same for for video as it is for stills same thing with wi-fi we already talked about how you can set that up earlier when i said why would you set the self-timer to 10 seconds uh one of the things i used to do when i started shooting video way back in the day is i would hit record and then i'd have to go sit in my seat well it would have been cool if i could have hit the button and then 10 seconds later it started it would have saved me some extra time because that camera only gave me five minutes of shooting now you got 29 minutes and 59 seconds that you can do so it's not that big of a deal or you could just cut the beginning off but that's where i would rather use the remote app so that i could see that it's in focus and then i can also hit record and stop recording right from that so you would set that here the same way that we showed you earlier wrench menu exactly the same as before so we don't really need to go through that again and the custom setting menu we don't need to go through that again either because we already set it and finally you've got my menu as well where you can add more things that you want to jump to like i had interval timer and touch shutter whatever you want to put there if you want to get to auto iso and turn that off you could do that but the funny thing is these menus used to be amazing because there was the only place we could customize things but now you have so many options with the q buttons to get right to the settings that you need quickly and we're going to jump into showing you that now now let me show you the cue menu what happens when you hit that right here on the back of the camera we've got the cue button the cue button super powerful you don't have to go into the menu for very much because the cue button is right here now you can't custom set the cue menu which would be really cool maybe in the future they'll come up with a firmware update where we can customize what goes in here because not everything that's in here is really needed for what i use so here you can change between your manual video or full auto you could also touch the screen to make the changes i have to use the joystick but here you could be like oh i want to use the lock on tracking the smiley face or i want to switch to any of these different af modes you can control all of that right from here you can set your different movie record settings that's not something that i really would would change too often while i'm shooting but when you're setting up it's good to have next we have the volume settings you can control that here if you're manually doing it it's really good to get in there to be able to control that yourself actually i'm doing it i'm moving it up you see that and now i'm moving it down this is what you would see if you were looking at the back of the camera when you are shooting video here you have this see this is kind of confusing you may you don't want to get confused here because this shows you that the hand is off but what the hand is off for for your is is actually movie digital is is currently off so just make sure that you're not like oh i want that on and then you go ahead and you turn it on and you're like wait a second i didn't want it on i actually wanted it off we've got uh select the card to record to currently it would be card one we've got auto white balance so you can change to the different white balances you can change the temperatures you can do auto white balance set priority for white priority that gives you very white whites instead of just like off yellow depending on the lighting situation that you're in then we have picture style that you can control from the right here if you need to quickly make a change to your picture style and then we have auto light optimizer is currently disabled but let me show you the steven can we get the bobble head here i want to show people how the tracking works in iaf so let me take off this a little lower right there come a little closer you see that you see how it's locked on his eye and by eye i mean me that's my bobble head boom it's constantly tracking and i can feel the autofocus moving at the same time oh and the lighting looks really good on that bobble head and boy can we turn him around can we see his butt real fast let's see does it have butt af no butt af but it found my whole back and it looks great all right perfect steven thank you so i'm going to put the lens cap back on here it's really easy to use but now let me actually record a video so i'm going to hit the red button here boom and this is what you're seeing on your screen we are seeing it count up in time you have 29 minutes and 59 seconds of record time you can see that on the right hand side we have the record button down there we have auto iso at the bottom right then we've got our aperture in the middle that we can change you can see exactly how to do that your shutter speed you can see how to change your shutter speed and we see that servo af is on that's your continuous auto focus to stop recording we go ahead and we hit stop just like that and you're done recording now let me switch in to photos so i can show you the q menu for photos so let's go ahead and hit the q button once again same thing we can go through and you have a couple of different options here but you can see that you've got your af method is right here iaf is enabled you've got your servo or you could switch to one shot we have this set to raw and raw which means that i'm gonna have raw files going to both slot one and slot two right there it only shows you i have something in slot one and that's why it has a little arrow next to it that shows you that's what it's being written to we've got drive mode oh this is cool check this out you've got high speed continuous plus high speed continuous low speed continuous you've got your self timer that you can change this is high plus mode we're gonna we're gonna click on that we're gonna take a bunch of pictures just for fun oh yeah you can see that we're counting down 27.51 oh wow that writes really fast good job camera nice job camera back into the cue mode then we've got metering mode switch different metering modes if you want normally i would just touch i had to hit down we've got the anti-flicker oh that's so good to have anti-flicker right where you need it to be in case you need to do that you've got your auto white balance settings your picture styles as well as the auto lighting optimizer is disabled uh and then you've got okay cropping if you want to be your 1.6 crop your one to one four three or movie 16 by nine shape we talked about all of that earlier but let me show you the autofocus and take some pictures here stephen can we get bobble head back here again all right we're getting bobble head back on the screen so you see how it's currently dark right now well he looks pretty good but check this out let me let me let me change my aperture you see how it's dark i'm getting you're good hold up hold that stephen um you see how it's super dark but as i change my aperture i see it perfectly right in my viewfinder so here we go we're locked on go ahead and move them around and it's tracking the eyes taking pictures boom i hold it i want to get out of the h this h mode so i'm going back into q because what i want to show you it was stuttering just a little bit but that's because it's shooting so many photos so now we're in h there you go it's a little slower well there's almost no blackout here and that's great oh yeah look at the autofocus just tracking me going forward going back and that's it thank you steven and that's how that's how you shoot the pictures let me jump in here and say if you're finding this video helpful could you please hit that subscribe button subscribing really helps out and it also means you won't miss any of my videos when they go live but also be sure to check out the archive of videos that i have because i have over 3 000 videos that's three right yes 3 000 videos that are fun and informative and are going to help you become a better creative now let's get back to the video here's another interesting menu that you can access from the outside that mfn button if we hit that look we can make all these changes you see how the arrow the the dial is showing i turn the top dial i can change the top dial and then if we want to change the bottom dial it says rotate so i could change my iso quickly from the back of the camera just by hitting this button actually my eye can be up to the viewfinder and i can just just make these changes that's what's great about this powerful button the mfn button but also if i hit the info button watch how it cycles through my histogram popped up small in the top right hand corner then i do this and i've got the this powerful display with the q we could hit the q again and now you can change all of these settings on the back of your camera so you just cycle through the info to find which one works best for you oh boy let me get out of that by hitting the shutter button halfway down and now we're back to the seeing all this information see i hit the play button and i hit the zoom in oh i just hit the magnifying glass to go in like that and then i rotate the back dial there it is to zoom in and to zoom out you could just touch the screen and do this then to zoom back out i just hit the magnifying glass again i can rotate the dial back here to go through the images you could also swipe through on the screen to change it i can hit info to see the info for the photo we set this all earlier you can see the histogram the focusing points all of your settings and that's it guys that's replaying your images and how to play them if we want to oscar the grouch them you would hit the trash can it warns you do you want to erase this i don't so i'm not going to erase it and then i come back here as a recommendation i always say don't delete photos in the camera you don't want to accidentally delete something that you might have liked unless it's totally dark or black or white and you know i still wouldn't do it you got plenty of room on these cards so there you have it guys that's your user's guide now i know it's a long video and i know it was a long video if you got to this far hashtag down below i got this far i'd like to hear that you did get this far and let me know what you think about this user guide how beneficial was it to you now i would love to go into super details about everything and make a video about every single setting but that would take eight to ten hours of video making uh and the whole idea with this is to get you started give you a good starting point so that you can get started in this world of shooting and understanding the settings and then you can tweak them from there into the future as you get better and more experienced so i want to thank you once again for watching if you have any questions please let me know i have a text line up on the screen but that's where i'm going to leave it guys don't forget to give this a thumbs up and if you haven't subscribed please hit that subscribe button so you never miss one of my videos jared polin froknowsphoto.com see ya

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Length: 93min 15sec (5595 seconds)

Published: Fri May 07 2021