Basic Shooting And Image Playback - Canon EOS 550D Instruction Manual

Basic Shooting and
image Playback
This chapter explains how to use the Basic Zone modes on
the Mode Dial for best results and how to playback images.
With the Basic Zone modes, all you do is point and shoot and
the camera sets ever_ automatically (p.210). Also, to
prevent botched pictures due to mistaken operations, major
shooting settings cannot be changed in the fully-automatic
modes. The settings (functions set automatically) which cannot
be set by the user are grayed out.
In the Basic Zone modes, the Auto Lighting Optimizer will adjust the
image automatically to obtain the optimum brightness and contrast,
!t is also enabled by default in the Creative Zone modes (p,!03),