Specifications

Canon 70D Experience

But the 70D is merely a tool. It is up to you to make use of its features and capabilities

to create the images you envision. While the camera’s manual will tell you about the

settings and controls, how to change them, and their intended functions, this guide will

build upon that and explain when and why you may want to use them. Every button,

feature, menu item, and Custom Function setting of the 70D is there for a reason: to

help you capture the images you want. Some of them are more useful to different types

of photographers and shooting situations and you don’t necessarily need to learn and

use them all immediately, but this guide will help to give you the knowledge to

confidently use the ones that turn your Canon 70D into an image capturing tool that

works best for you and the photography situations you work in.

(Note that there are two versions of the Canon 70D: the EOS 70D (W) with built-in Wi-

Fi, and the EOS 70D (N) that is available in certain regions and does not include built-in

Wi-Fi. Also be aware that the Wi-Fi should be disabled in locations and situations where

its use is not allowed.)

1.1 Take Control of Your Camera

Since the camera is a tool to take the images you want to take, you obviously can’t

always allow the camera to make decisions for you. You have to take control of the

camera to ensure that you capture exactly the images you intend - by autofocusing

precisely where you want, setting the aperture or shutter speed that you want, and

obtaining the exposure you want. While the 70D is an intelligent camera, it cannot read

your mind and your intentions and does not know that you wish to focus on and properly

expose the face of the man on the right side of the frame, while making the other man

and the background appear out of focus, and the subject to be caught still and not be

blurred from his motion, on this bright and sunny day (see Figure 3). You have to tell the

camera to do all of this through the various controls and settings, such as the autofocus

AF Mode (focus on the face on the right), the Exposure Metering Mode (properly

expose for the face and the scene), the Aperture setting (the out-of-focus second man

and background), the Shutter Speed (freeze the motion of the subject), the ISO (bright

day) and the White Balance (sunny day).