DSLR Camera

There are many different things you need to do before taking photographs, these are them:

-  Check the battery level before going out onto a shoot, by doing this you need to have a look when the camera is on, the battery level is indicated in four levels found here:

-  Insert recording media is basically inserting the memory card; you have to make sure you have an empty memory card or one with plenty of space before you go onto a shoot.

-  Select recording size – this means that you can select the  quality of the photographs, you can do this by selecting the pixel count. You can choose between 10 image recording quality settings:

This gives you the oppertinity to change the quality depending on what type of shoot you are doing. You can do this by:

- Setting the diopter is adjusting the viewfinder clarity. By turning the dioptric adjustment knob left of right until the nine AF points in the view finder look sharp.

-  Select auto or manual focus depending on what you are shooting. You can select the auto-focus mode to suit the type of shoot, the most basic auto-focus mode is set automatically.

This is a description of how to change the auto-focus.

-  Select metering mode. There is three metering modes to measure the brightness of the subject. In basic automatic mode the metering is set already.

The three methods of metering mode are:

Evaluative Metering

Partial Metering

Center-weighted average metering

-  Do the white balance to match the light source. The automatic setting sets the white balance, but you can also select the white balance to match the light source yourself, or set it manually by shooting a white object such as a plain piece of paper or something completely white.

This is a description of how to do the white balance:

-  Finally, select shoot mode.

This is a dial of all the 15 different types of modes you can choose, and what they mean: