Canon Rebel T3/110 Quiz – Know Your Camera Controls

The abbreviation "AF" in AF Point Selection stands for Auto Focus. Auto Focus is a feature in cameras that automatically adjusts the focus of the lens to ensure the subject is sharp and clear. AF Point Selection refers to the ability to manually select a specific focus point within the frame for the camera to focus on.

The statement is false because it is possible to pop up the flash from the quick control screen. The quick control screen typically provides quick access to various settings, including the flash options. Therefore, users can easily pop up the flash by accessing the quick control screen and selecting the appropriate flash setting.

The question is asking about the color of the Playback menus. The correct answer is "Blue".

When you hit the shutter release button of your camera a hole opens up that allows your cameras image sensor to catch a glimpse of the scene you’re wanting to capture. The aperture that you set impacts the size of that hole. The larger the hole the more light that gets in – the smaller the hole the less light.

Aperture is measured in ‘f-stops’, for example f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6,f/8,f/22 etc. Moving from one f-stop to the next doubles or halves the size of the amount of opening in your lens (and the amount of light getting through). Keep in mind that a change in shutter speed from one stop to the next doubles or halves the amount of light that gets in also – this means if you increase one and decrease the other you let the same amount of light in – very handy to keep in mind).

One thing that causes a lot of new photographers confusion is that large apertures (where lots of light gets through) are given f/stop smaller numbers and smaller apertures (where less light gets through) have larger f-stop numbers. So f/2.8 is in fact a much larger aperture than f/22. It seems the wrong way around when you first hear it but you’ll get the hang of it.

To adjust the speaker volume of your camera, you need to rotate the Main Dial. This suggests that the camera has a physical dial specifically designed for adjusting the speaker volume. By rotating this dial, you can increase or decrease the volume according to your preference.

This is due to file size on the camera but you can restart the move again provided you have a card larger then 4GB. For a 4GB card you can record a 17 min. movie. An 8GB card will record a 34 minute movie.

Setting the Drive mode to Continuous allows for rapid-fire image capture, meaning that multiple images can be captured in quick succession with just one press of the shutter button. The shutter button is the button on a camera that is pressed to take a photograph. Therefore, by setting the Drive mode to Continuous and pressing the shutter button, multiple images can be captured rapidly.

When choosing the ISO setting you should generally ask yourself the following four questions:

Light – Is the subject well lit?
Grain – Do I want a grainy shot or one without noise?
Tripod – Am I using a tripod?
Moving Subject – Is my subject moving or stationary?

If there is plenty of light, I want little grain, I’m using a tripod and my subject is stationary I will generally use a pretty low ISO rating.

However if it’s dark, I purposely want grain, I don’t have a tripod and/or my subject is moving I might consider increasing the ISO as it will enable me to shoot with a faster shutter speed and still expose the shot well.

Of course the trade off of this increase in ISO will be noisier shots.

Situations where you might need to push ISO to higher settings include:

Indoor Sports Events – where your subject is moving fast yet you may have limited light available.
Concerts – also low in light and often ‘no-flash’ zones
Art Galleries, Churches etc- many galleries have rules against using a flash and of course being indoors are not well lit.
Birthday Parties – blowing out the candles in a dark room can give you a nice moody shot which would be ruined by a bright flash. Increasing the ISO can help capture the scene.

ISO is an important aspect of digital photography to have an understanding of if you want to gain more control of your digital camera.

The correct answer is the Mode Dial. The Mode Dial is a feature found on many cameras that allows users to easily switch between different shooting modes. It includes the Basic Zone modes, which are pre-set modes designed for specific shooting situations, the Creative Zone modes, which give users more control over settings like aperture and shutter speed, and the Movie Shooting mode, which allows for recording videos. The Mode Dial is a convenient way for photographers to quickly switch between different shooting modes depending on their needs.

Typically, the camera focuses on the closest object. However, if you want to set the focus elsewhere, the easiest option is to use manual focusing. This feature allows you to manually adjust the focus of the camera lens to ensure that the desired object is in focus. By using manual focusing, you have full control over the focus point, allowing you to capture the image exactly as you want it.

There are many situations where this may be useful. A photographer shooting a portrait, for example, might want to place the subject off-center. Taking a meter reading off the subject, locking it (along with focus), and then moving the camera to re-compose the subject means that exposure won’t shift if the background is lighter or darker than the subject itself. Another example might be a shooter taking a sequence of images, panning the camera from one area to another (following a moving subject, for example). If there are differences in the background or lighting, it’s possible that exposures will vary from one shot to the next. With AE Lock active, exposures would be consistent from shot to shot.

Why would you need to get the color right in your shots?

You might have noticed when examining shots after taking them that at times images can come out with an orange, blue, yellow etc look to them – despite the fact that to the naked eye the scene looked quite normal. The reason for this is that images different sources of light have a different ‘color’ (or temperature) to them. Fluorescent lighting adds a bluish cast to photos whereas tungsten (incandescent/bulbs) lights add a yellowish tinge to photos.
The range in different temperatures ranges from the very cool light of blue sky through to the very warm light of a candle.

We don’t generally notice this difference in temperature because our eyes adjust automatically for it. So unless the temperature of the light is very extreme a white sheet of paper will generally look white to us. However a digital camera doesn’t have the smarts to make these adjustments automatically and sometimes will need us to tell it how to treat different light.

So for cooler (blue or green) light you’ll tell the camera to warm things up and in warm light you’ll tell it to cool down.

This provides you with a second way of composing your photos - the first would involve looking through the viewfinder.

A live view LCD is great for people who don't want to be limited to viewfinder composition, and enjoy taking photos from the hip, high up, or from odd angles.

The continuous image displayed on the LCD helps you ensure that you're getting the composition right, even when your eye isn't pressed to the viewfinder.

But hold on a sec...this "special" feature sounds an awful lot like the way every compact digital camera works.

It is, but adding a live view LCD to a digital SLR is not quite a simple as it sounds. Not all live view systems are created equal.

The main issue that plagues most live view systems is one of speed: autofocus is slow, and the time to take a photo is downright glacial.

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The knob that works as a lens switching from near to far focus, without affecting the focus circuitry of the camera, is called the viewfinder diopter adjustment. It functions similar to the device used by eye doctors to check vision, with lenses of various concave and convex curves to adjust for nearsightedness and farsightedness. The viewfinder diopter adjustment is used to compensate for an eye that cannot focus at a reasonable distance, such as for close objects like reading text. It typically has an adjustment range of -3 to +3, with 0 representing nominal 20/20 vision.

The correct answer is Drive Mode Button. The Drive Mode Button is used to select different shooting modes, including the self-timer mode. Once the self-timer countdown starts, pressing the Drive Mode Button will cancel the self-timer shooting and return the camera to its normal shooting mode.

The third AF mode is Quick Mode.

You can adjust the exposure measured by the light meter by telling the camera to allow more light in (positive exposure compensation) or to allow less light in (negative exposure compensation).