Canon EOS Rebel T8i/850D For Dummies. Julie Adair King
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Working with Memory Cards
As the medium that stores your picture files, the memory card is a critical component of your camera. See the steps at the start of this chapter for help installing a card; follow these tips for buying and maintaining cards:
Buying SD cards: SD (Secure Digital) cards carry slightly different names depending on their storage capacity: SD cards offer less than 4GB of storage space; SDHC cards can hold 4GB–32GB of data; and SDXC cards can store more than 32GB.Aside from card capacity, the other specification to note is card speed, which indicates how quickly data can be moved to and from the card. Card speed is indicated in several ways. The most common spec is SD Speed Class, which rates cards with a number between 2 and 10, with 10 being the fastest. Most cards also carry another designation, UHS-1, -2, or -3; UHS (Ultra High Speed) refers to a new technology designed to boost data transmission speeds above the normal Speed Class 10 rate. The number 1, 2, or 3 inside a little U symbol tells you the UHS rating. Your camera can use UHS-2 and -3 cards, but you won’t get any extra speed benefit; the speed advantage with the T8i/850D tops out at UHS-1.Some SD cards also are rated in terms of how they perform when used to record video — specifically, how many frames per second the card can handle. As with the other ratings, a higher video-speed number indicates a faster card.
Formatting a card: The first time you use a new memory card, format it by choosing the Format Card option on Setup Menu 1. This step ensures the card is properly prepared to record your pictures. See the upcoming section “Setup Menu 1” for more information.
Removing a card: First, check the status of the memory-card access lamp, found just above the card door on the back-right side of the camera. After making sure that the lamp is off, indicating that the camera has finished recording your most recent photo, turn off the camera. Open the memory card door, depress the memory card slightly and then lift your finger. The card should pop halfway out of the slot, enabling you to grab it by the tail and remove it.
Handling cards: Don’t touch the gold contacts on the back of the card. (See the right card in Figure 1-33.) When cards aren’t in use, store them in the protective cases they came in or in a memory card wallet. Keep cards away from extreme heat and cold as well.
Locking cards: The tiny switch on the side of the card, labeled “Lock switch” in Figure 1-33, enables you to lock your card, which prevents any data from being erased or recorded to the card. If you insert a locked card into the camera, a message on the monitor alerts you to that fact. You can safeguard individual images from accidental erasure by using the Protect Images option on Playback Menu 1; Chapter 10 tells you how. Note, though, that formatting the card does erase even protected pictures; the safety feature prevents erasure only when you use the camera’s Erase function, also covered in Chapter 10.
FIGURE 1-33: Avoid touching the gold contacts on the card.
Reviewing Basic Setup Options
Your camera offers scads of options for customizing its performance. Later chapters explain settings related to picture-taking, such as those that affect flash behavior and autofocusing. The rest of this chapter offers a quick rundown of options on the Setup menu, which are mainly (but not all) related to general camera operations. Some of these features deserve only a brief glance; others may require your attention on a regular basis. I’ve also included advice on a few additional pre-use options you may want to consider that aren’t found on the Setup menu.
If you haven’t yet done so, also follow the instructions provided in the earlier section “Changing from Guided to Standard Display Mode” to turn off Guided mode for the four options found on the Shooting Display Settings menu. Otherwise, screens you see on your camera won’t match the figures in this book, and some instructions won’t work as spelled out, either.
Also note that menu offerings change depending on your exposure mode — Scene Intelligent Auto, P, SCN, and so on — and whether the camera is set to Movie mode, Live View photography mode, or viewfinder photography mode. For now, put the camera in still photo mode (the On/Off switch should be set to On) and exit Live View mode if it’s active. (The Live View button is just to the right of the viewfinder and is marked with a camera symbol.) Then rotate the Mode dial on top of the camera to the P, Tv, Av, or M position. You can adjust all the camera’s options only in these advanced exposure modes.
Note that when you shoot in Live View or Movie mode, some menus offer additional or different options than when you use the viewfinder. I mention these options in the following lists even though they don’t appear in the accompanying figures, which feature the menus as they appear during viewfinder shooting. Yeah, I know, this is all getting fairly dense; don’t panic, the goal here is just to give you a menu overview that you can access quickly. I detail many settings further when discussing the relevant shooting topics later in the book.
Setup Menu 1
Display Setup Menu 1, shown in Figure 1-34, to access the following options:
Select Folder: By default, your camera creates an initial file-storage folder named 100Canon and puts as many as 9,999 images in that folder. When you reach image 9999, the camera creates a new folder, named 101Canon, for your next 9,999 images. The camera also creates a new folder if you perform a manual file-numbering reset (details are provided later in this section).Choose Select Folder to see the list of folders on your memory card. If the card contains multiple folders, the currently selected one is highlighted. The number to the right of the folder name shows you how many pictures are in the folder. You also see a thumbnail view of the first and last pictures in the folder, along with the file numbers of those two photos. To choose a different folder, tap it or press the top or bottom edge of the Quick Control dial to select it and then press the Set button. You also can create a new folder by choosing the Create Folder setting on the menu screen; Chapter 11 provides details on this feature.FIGURE 1-34: Setup Menu 1 contains the Format Card option with a handful of others.
File Numbering: This option controls how the camera names your picture files. After selecting File Numbering from the menu, choose the Numbering option to select one of these choices:Continuous: This is the default; the camera numbers your files sequentially, from 0001 to 9999, and places all images in the same folder (100Canon, by default) unless you specify otherwise using the Select Folder option. The numbering sequence is retained even if you change memory cards.When you reach picture 9999, the camera automatically creates a new folder (101Canon, by default) and restarts the file numbering at 0001 — again, the folder issue is dependent on the status of the Select Folder option. Auto Reset: File numbering restarts at 0001 each time you put in a different memory card or create a new folder. It’s easy to wind up with multiple photos that have the same file number if you’re not careful about storing