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Movie-Record button: After shifting to Live View mode, press this button
to start recording a movie. Press again to stop recording. (You can't use
the viewfinder when recording movies.)
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Mode dial: With this dial, you choose the exposure mode, which determines
how much control you have over camera settings. For normal shoot ing,
you can choose from fully automatic, semiautomatic, or manual exposure
control; I introduce you to the auto modes in Chapter 3 and cover the semi-
automatic and manual modes (P, S, A, and M) in Chapter 4 .
By turning the dial to Effects, you can apply special effects as the image
or movie is captured, a feature you can explore in Chapter 11 . Select the
Guide setting to access guided menus, covered later in this chapter.
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AF-assist lamp: When you use autofocusing, the camera may emit a beam
of light from this lamp in dim lighting; the light helps the camera find its
focus target. The lamp also lights when you use Red-Eye Reduction flash
and the Self-Timer shutter-release mode, both covered in Chapter 2 .
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Flash hot shoe: A hot shoe is a connection for attaching an external flash
head. See Chapter 2 for an introduction to flash photography.
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Speaker: When you play a movie, the sound comes wafting out of these
holes.
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Focal plane indicator: When you need to know the exact distance between
your subject and the camera, the focal plane mark is the key. The mark indi-
cates the plane at which light coming through the lens is focused onto the
camera's image sensor. Basing your measurement on this mark produces a
more accurate camera-to-subject distance than using the end of the lens or
another external point on the camera body as your reference point.
Back-of-the-body controls
On the back of the camera, shown in Figure 1-6 , you find these features:
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Infrared receiver: Labeled in Figure 1-6 , this is one of two receivers that
picks up the infrared signal from the optional ML-L3 wireless remote
control. The other receiver is on the front-right side of the camera, near
the middle of the hand grip.
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Viewfinder adjustment dial: Rotate this dial to adjust the viewfinder
focus to your eyesight; see the first section of this chapter for details.
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AE-L/AF-L button: Pressing this button initiates autoexposure lock (AE-L)
and autofocus lock (AF-L). Chapter 4 explains autoexposure lock; Chapter 5
talks about autofocus lock.
In playback mode, pressing the button activates the Protect feature,
which locks the picture file — hence the little key symbol that appears
above the button — so that it isn't erased if you use the picture-delete
functions. See Chapter 10 for details. (The picture is erased if you format
the memory card, however.)
Chapter 1: Getting Up and Running
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