Eos 600d Canon
Jenelle Centeno
I'm using a Canon 600d with a EFS 18-55mm lens. I'm in the M setting on the dial with the shutter speed at 1/125 and f/5.6 and the phots are coming out really dark even though the room is bright. Please help?
You can't just choose a shutter speed and an aperture. As ebiggs mentions, you need to take a meter reading and then set the camera up appropriately. As Derekp13 mentions, indoors with artificial lighting you will likely need to use a higher ISO.... but just switching to 1600 is sheer guess work. It might work... or not.
Until you get the book, read it and understand it, set the camera to P (program) mode and the camera will select both the shutter speed and the aperture for you, based upon the meter readings it takes. You'll still need to watch for warnings about over or underexposure and adjust the ISO when needed (higher in dim conditions, or lower in bright light).
There are more highly automated modes on the camera, but by using P, Av, and Tv, which are also automatic modes but allow you to give some input to what the camera does, you are taking the first steps toward learning to use the camera in full manual (M) exposure mode.
Actually... I WOULD buy the Bryan Peterson "Understanding Exposure" book... probably one of the most recommended books for those who want to learn to take control of their DSLR and learn to shoot on manual. The Scott Kelby Digital Photography series of books is also commonly recommended (I think that's up to 4 volumes now) -- but I think the Bryan Peterson book is probably more popular. These books use common language and wont confuse you with technical terms with a presumption that you know all the terminology... they teach you the terminology, but the books are designed for those just starting out.
The ultimate goal is to understand how to determine when you have the right exposure... if you can shoot in manual you can shoot in any mode. With that said... I do actually use ALL the modes on my camera -- not just manual. There are reasons the other modes exist.
As for videos... this one should hopefully be a good primer to understand exposure and how you can trade off one part of the exposure setting, but make up for it by balancing out another part of the exposure setting.
BTW, you'll learn about "equivalent exposures" -- but they're not really equivalent. When you trade one setting for another, you get nuances... some exposures are better for freezing action. Some better for creating selective focus (focus only on your intended subject with everything else deliberately blurred). Some are better for landscapes where everything is in focus. Some are better for keeping noise minimized in low light shooting. Some are better for "blurring" moving parts of the shot to imply motion. The list goes on and on -- the point is, picking the right exposure combination is a creative process.
I do NOT normally suggest you crank up the ISO as a way to improve the light becasue the camera will increase the amount of "noise" in the image. The image will start to look grainy. If you shoot JPEG then the camera will attempt to reduce the noise via software smoothing processes... but this has the side effect of softening the image (focus will not look as sharp.)
This is why it's a good idea to read a good book or watch a few good videos to make sure you understand it. It's actually not very hard, but may take some practice to get it to really sink in. I find that even after explaining it to people, they don't "really" get it until they do a few exercises/experiments of their own -- and then the light bulb comes on and you "get it".
I have two 64 GB SDXC 10 cards - newly used in a Canon EOS 600D and 650D. The 600D transferred some of the images when inserted in the reader, but then stopped and failed to transfer about 1000 of our 4000, and half the video. It then seemed to eat all the images so none are left and none be can be read on the card, thpough the transferred stull on the mac hard drive is there still. . The card cannot be read in the camera which says "cannot access". The 650D simply won't show the card on the Mac at all though at the moment all the images seem to be on the card in the camera. What is going on? A medium problem, an Apple problem, a Canon problem? Apple is MacBook Pro mid 2009 NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 250MB 10.8.2. IUmages come from 4 weeks in Asia and are special...
My first thought: does your camera support 64 GB cards? My Canon supports up to 32 GB. Second thought: either the built-in or third party card reader will not support the card or its speeds. And, lastly, what speed class is your card? One of my Canons will not work well with Class 10 cards - I have to use the older (slower) Class 6 cards; it is also not compatible with the new high speed UHS-1 (marked by a '1' next to the SDHC or SDXC).
Well the 650D clearly does and others say the 550D does - the 600D sits in between : When I shot the photos they all appeared on playback inside the camera so I think that means the camera can support them. Wirdly they started to downlaod from the card when I inserted it in the MacBook Pro 13,, but I wonder if the card reader speed in the mac is the problem (ie it's not the canon but the Apple that cannot handle Class 10 cards). But then I moved them vis cable from the 650D and that was fine. The one I used in the 650D has not degraded even if it doesn't show up when the camera is plugged in on the desktop of the Apple )but intiially the one in the 600D did show up and thus i started the drag and drop). The Card is not a UHS-1 version, but a standard Class 10.
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