Canon 970 IS manual Advanced Shooting Functions

Table of Contents

Using the Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Shooting Close-Ups/Infinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Using the Self-Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Changing the Recording Pixels (Still Images) . . . . . . . . . .

Changing the Compression (Still Images) . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Setting the Image Stabilizer Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Adjusting the ISO Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Advanced Shooting Functions

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Shooting Modes for Specific Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Shooting in Manual Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Continuous Shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Setting the Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Movie Shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Shooting Panoramic Images (Stitch Assist). . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Checking the Focus and Peoples’ Expressions. . . . . . . . . 90 Selecting an AF Frame Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Selecting a Subject to Focus On (Face Select and Track) 96 Shooting Hard-to-Focus Subjects (Focus Lock, AF Lock) . 97 Locking the Exposure Setting (AE Lock) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Locking the Flash Exposure Setting (FE Lock) . . . . . . . . 100 Adjusting the Exposure Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Switching between Metering Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Setting the Shutter Speed (Long Shutter Mode) . . . . . . . 103 Adjusting the Tone (White Balance) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Shooting in a My Colors Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Changing the Colors and Shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Setting the Display Overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Categorizing Images Automatically (Auto Category) . . . . 115

Registering Settings to the Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Playback/Erasing 118

Viewing Magnified Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Viewing Images in Sets of Nine (Index Playback) . . . 119 Checking the Focus and Peoples’ Expressions (Focus

Check Display) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Jumping to Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122