EOS 70D Manual
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Introduction
- Getting Started
- Charging the Battery
- Installing and Removing the Battery
- Installing and Removing the Card
- Using the LCD Monitor
- Turning on the Power
- Setting the Date, Time, and Zone
- Selecting the Interface Language
- Attaching and Detaching a Lens
- Lens Image Stabilizer
- Basic Operation
- Quick Control for Shooting Functions
- Menu Operations
- Using the Touch Screen
- Before You Start
- Displaying the Grid
- Displaying the Electronic Level
- Feature Guide and Help
- Basic Shooting
- Fully Automatic Shooting (Scene Intelligent Auto)
- Full Auto Techniques (Scene Intelligent Auto)
- Disabling Flash
- Creative Auto Shooting
- Special Scene Mode
- Shooting Portraits
- Shooting Landscapes
- Shooting Close-ups
- Shooting Moving Subjects
- Shooting Night Portraits (With a Tripod)
- Shooting Night Scenes (Handheld)
- Shooting Backlit Scenes
- Quick Control
- Shoot by Ambience Selection
- Shoot by Lighting or Scene Type
- Setting the AF and Drive Modes
- Image Settings
- Setting the Image-Recording Quality
- Setting the ISO Speed
- Selecting a Picture Style
- Customizing a Picture Style
- Registering a Picture Style
- Setting the White Balance
- White Balance Correction
- Auto Correction of Brightness and Contrast
- Setting Noise Reduction
- Highlight Tone Priority
- Lens Peripheral Illumination / Chromatic Aberration Correction
- Creating and Selecting a Folder
- File Numbering Methods
- Setting Copyright Information
- Setting the Color Space
- Advanced Operations
- Program AE
- Shutter-Priority AE
- Aperture-Priority AE
- Manual Exposure
- Selecting the Metering Mode
- Setting Exposure Compensation
- Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB)
- AE Lock
- Bulb Exposures
- HDR (High Dynamic Range) Shooting
- Multiple Exposures
- Mirror Lockup
- Using the Eyepiece Cover
- Using a Remote Switch
- Remote Control Shooting
- Flash Photography
- Shooting with the LCD Monitor (Live View Shooting)
- Shooting Movies
- Image Playback
- Image Playback
- Shooting Information Display
- Searching for Images Quickly
- Magnified View
- Playing Back with the Touch Screen
- Rotating the Image
- Setting Ratings
- Quick Control for Playback
- Enjoying Movies
- Playing Movies
- Editing a Movie’s First and Last Scenes
- Slide Show (Auto Playback)
- Viewing Images on a TV Set
- Protecting Images
- Erasing Images
- Changing Image Playback Settings
- Post-Processing Images
- Sensor Cleaning
- Printing Images
- Customizing the Camera
- Reference
- INFO. Button Functions
- Checking the Battery Information
- Using a Household Power Outlet
- Using Eye-Fi Cards
- Function Availability Table According to Shooting Mode
- Menu Settings
- System Map
- Troubleshooting Guide
- Error Codes
- Specifications
- Handling Precautions: EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM, EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM
- Viewing the CD-ROM Instruction Manuals / Downloading Images to Your Computer
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Use AE lock when the area of focus is to be different from the exposure
metering area or when you want to take multiple shots at the same exposure
setting. Press the
<A>
button to lock the exposure, then recompose and
take the shot. This is called AE lock. It is effective for backlit subjects.
1
Focus the subject.
Press the shutter button halfway.
X
The exposure setting will be displayed.
2
Press the <A> button. (0)
X The <A> icon lights up in the
viewfinder to indicate that the
exposure setting is locked (AE lock).
Each time you press the <A> button,
the current autoexposure setting is
locked.
3
Recompose and take the picture.
If you want to maintain the AE lock
while taking more shots, hold down
the <A> button and press the shutter
button to take another shot.
* When the lens’ focus mode switch is set to <MF>, AE lock is applied at the
center AF point.
A AE LockN
AE Lock Effects
Metering Mode
(p.165)
AF Point Selection Method (p.103-105)
Automatic Selection Manual Selection
q*
AE lock is applied at the AF
point that achieved focus.
AE lock is applied at the
selected AF point.
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AE lock is applied at the center AF point.
AE lock is not possible with bulb exposures.
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