From the course: Learning Your Canon DSLR Camera
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Touring the viewfinder
- When you look through the viewfinder, you're actually looking through the lens that's taking the picture. This can be useful because it allows you to really judge what's happening with the camera. It's an optical view. Now, this is a little tricky, but what's essentially happening is you're looking through the back of the camera and then it takes the light through a prism. You may recall that there's a mirror inside your camera, so the light passes through the lens, hits the mirror, and goes up through the prism and it goes into your eye. This allows you to see what's happening. Now, the exact mechanics vary slightly from camera to camera and not all cameras have an optical viewfinder. Some of Canon's mirrorless cameras, or point and shoot cameras, don't actually use this optical approach, this is what's really known as the DSLR. But it doesn't really matter, most diopters are more or less the same, whether they're showing you an optical image or they're showing you a small screen…
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Setting essential camera menu settings9m 47s
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Touring the viewfinder4m 18s
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Shooting in Live View4m 10s
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Using the Quick Control screen2m 23s
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Autofocus basics4m 59s
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Lens controls and zoom functions5m 32s
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Image review and playback7m 7s
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Changing image format and size5m 38s
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Guided menu system feature assist1m 57s
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