Index

50 mm f2.5 Compact Macro 190–191

85 mm f1.2 187–190

100 mm f2.8 macro 191–192

A

Accent light 118

Accessory flash 211–219

Macro Twin Lite 224–229

Ring Lite 229–231

Accessory light meter 117

A-DEP (Automatic Depth of Field) 118–119

Adobe RGB color space 24, 83

vs. sRGB 24–25

AF Point selector 151

AI Servo AF 102, 108, 112, 163–167

Predictive AF 165

Aperture, depth of field 3–6

Aperture Priority 56, 65, 116, 161, 163

Archival Gold CD-R 29–30

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Focus 163–165

Aspect Ratio 61, 262

Auto Exposure (AE) Lock 153, 170, 171

Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) 71–74

Auto Focus (AF) Mode 67, 160–161

AI Focus 169–170

AI Servo AF 163–167

One-Shot 161

Auto White Balance (AWB) 35, 74, 78

Automatic Focus Point Selection (AFPS) 158

AF Mode 160–170

Auto Focus (AF) 158–160

Register specific AF points 170–173

Av Aperture Priority AE 116

B

Background light 118

BalanceSmarter 79

Basic Zone 101

Close-up mode 106–107

Flash Offmode 112–113

Full Automatic 102

Landscape mode 103–106

Night Portrait mode 108, 111–112

Portrait mode 102, 103

Sport mode 107–108

Battery Info window 62–63

Bicho, David 120–125

Birnbach, Allen 269

Bokeh 190

Brownell, David 266

Brownstein, Larry 275

Built-in flash 206–210

Bulb 8, 60, 72

Burst rate 52–54

Byron, Jim 267

C

Camera metering 151–158

Center-Weighted Averaging Meter 156–157

Evaluative Metering 151

Partial Metering 153–154

Spot Metering 154–155

Camera Setting selection 45

Camera stands, See Tripods

Cameras

Digital Rebel XTi 39

EOS 1D Mark II N 47–49

EOS 1D Mark III 50–63

EOS 5D 45–46

EOS 30D 42–44

Canon gallery

Alex 268

Asha Bhosle 276

Barney Barnwell 280

Dahlia 271

Hollywood Boulevard 108 275

Hollywood portrait 281

Home run 273

Hummingbird 267

Interior 278

Canon gallery

Kindergarten teacher Mary Scarbrough 266

Legong dance 271

Marvin 267

National Theater Taipei 272

The Old Radio Man 282

Snow Rainbow 266

Stone Arch Bridge 279

Suzy the Wonderpuppy 283

Carsten, Jeff 283

Center-Weighted Averaging Meter 156–157

Chandler, Kreta 271

Chimping 20

Close-up mode 106–107

Cloudy 75, 76

CMYK 24

Color Saturation 143, 144, 253

Color Space 24–25, 83–84

Adobe RGB 83

Picture Styles 84

sRGB 83

Color Temperature 75, 114, 148–150, 250

Color Tone 132, 145, 146, 253

Compact Flash (CF) 19

Compression 14–16

Conversion factor 184–185

Correct exposure 4, 9, 10, 129, 220, 226

Creative Zone 45, 72, 114

A-DEP (Automatic Depth of Field) 118–119

Av Aperture Priority AE 116

Manual mode 116–118

Program AE 114

Tv Shutter Speed Priority AE 115

Cropping 186, 262

Custom Function (C.Fn) 8, 158, 170, 174

Custom White Balance (CWB) 75, 77, 79, 80, 148

D

Daylight 75, 148

Depth of field 6

See also A-DEP

Detailed Settings 132

Digital Photo Professional (DPP) 239

Batch Process 246

Brightness 245

Click 245

Edit window 241, 246–247

Main window 241, 242

Noise reduction 241

and Photoshop conversion, comparison 240, 241

RAW Image Adjustment 247–257

RGB Image Adjustment 257–263

White Balance 244, 245

Digital Trinity 42

Drive function 74

Dynamic Range (DR) 233, 251–253

Color Saturation 253

Color Tone 253

E

Edit window 241, 246–247, 250, 251, 262

EF 14 mm f2.8 L USM aspherical 185–186

EF 15 mm f2.8 Fisheye 186–187

EF 24 –70 mm f2.8 USM 196–197

EF 70 –200 mm f2.8L USM 193–196

EF 400 mm f2.8L IS USM 197–200

EF-S lenses 200–203

EF-S 10–22 mm f3.5–4.5 USM 201

EF-S 17–55 mm f2.8 IS USM 201

EF-S 17–85 mm f4–5.6 IS USM 201–202

EF-S 18–55 mm f3.5–5.6 USM 202–203

EF-S 60 mm f2.8 Macro USM 203

EOS 1D Mark II 47–49

EOS 1D Mark III 50–63

Aperture Priority 56–58

Aspect Ratio 61

Battery Info window 62–63

Borders 55

Burst rate 52–54

Custom Functions 62

Highlight Tone Priority 55

Live View 59–60

Pixels 55

Sensor cleaning 51

Weather sealed 55

Wireless File Transmitter 51

EOS 5D 45–46

EOS 30D 42–44

Digital Trinity 42

Multi-Controller 42

Erasing images 85–86

E-TTL 205, 211, 225, 227

Tricks to use 212–219

Evaluative Metering 106, 109, 151

Evans, Rod 94–99

Exposure Compensation 114

Exposure Level Indicator 70

External light meter 127–131

F

Face-Mask Histogram 118

Farmer, Kristen 268

Farooqui, Rizwan 276

Features 65

Auto Exposure Bracketing 71–74

Color Space/Color Matrix 83–84

Custom White Balance 75, 77–82

Erasing images 85–86

Format 86–87

Highlight alert 90

ISO speed 87–90

LCD brightness 93

Main Dial 67

Menu 70

Power switch 65–66

Protect 84–85

Quality 70–71

Quick Control Dial 67–68

Sensor cleaning 90–93

Shutter button 69–70

White Balance 74–75

Fernandez, Jorge 282

File accessibility 28–30

Fill flash 206, 207, 214

Filter Effect 254

Flash 75, 77, 205

Accessory flash 211–219

Built-in 206–210

Macro Twin Lite 224

Multi Stroboscopic Flash 219–220

Ring Lite 229–231

Speedlites 221–224

Flash Exposure Bracketing (FEB) 217–218

Flash Exposure Compensation 207, 212, 218

Flash Exposure Lock (FEL) 170, 206

See also AE Lock

Flash meter 78, 222

Flash Off mode 112–113

Flash shots 111

Fluorescent light 10

Focus Confirmation light 161

Focus Points 106, 118, 154

Format 19, 86–87

FTP 51

Full Automatic 102, 160

Full-time manual focus 191, 201

G

Gallery, See Canon gallery

Galloway, Scott 278

Gero, Paul 31–37

Glassfire 98

Gray target 78, 148, 213

H

Hair light 118, 221

Haithcox, Rick 280

Hartley, Paul 175–180

Education 175

First photography 175

Production workflow 178

Stock photography 179

Travel kit 175–179

Writer 176

High-Speed Sync 218, 221

High-ticket jobs 71

Highlight alert 90

Highlight Tone Priority 55, 62

HTTP 51

I

Image quality 14, 47, 70, 90, 91, 93

Image Stabilization 70, 158, 193, 195, 201

Internal light meter 101, 127

ISO Speed 36, 56, 88–90, 240

iView Media Pro 16, 36

J

jpeg 15, 262

K

Kelvin 148

Key light 118, 150, 221, 225, 227

Keystoning 185, 192

Kopelow, Gerry 232–237

Photographic tricks 232, 234

Tool kit 234

Workflow 233

L

L Series 184, 201

Landscape mode 103–106, 134

Large jpeg 15, 70, 71

LCD brightness 93

Lenses 183

50 mm f2.5 Compact macro 190–191

85 mm f1.2 187–190

100 mm f2.8 macro 191–192

EF 14 mm f2.8 L USM aspherical 185–186

EF 15 mm f2.8 Fisheye 186–187

EF 24–70 mm f2.8 USM 196–197

EF 70–200 mm f2.8L USM 193–196

EF-S lenses 200–203

TS-E 90 mm f2.8 Tilt/Shift 192–193

Light meter 106, 117, 118

Light source 127, 226

Linear Tone Curve 252

Live View 59–60

LP-E4 batteries 17

LumiQuest MidiBouncer 213

M

Macro Twin Lite 224–229

Main Dial 67

Manual Focus Point Selection (MFPS)

173–174

Manual Mode 70, 116–118, 151, 210, 226

Master unit 222, 223

Medium jpeg 15, 71

Menu 70

Meter/exposure/f-stop connection 129–131

Mitchell, Cris 281

Mode Dial 45

Monochrome 135, 253

Filter Effect 254

Sharpness 255

Toning Effect 254–255

Morgan, Jeff 279

Multi Stroboscopic Flash 219–220

Multi-Controller 42, 159, 173

N

Neutral density (ND) filters 7, 115

Neutral Picture Style 136

Color Saturation 143, 144

Color Tone 145, 146

Contrast 141, 142

Sharpness factor 139, 140

Zero Sharpness 138

Night Portrait mode 108, 111

NP-E3 (NiMH) batteries 17

O

Off-color cast 81

One-Shot AF 102, 161, 174

One stop overexposed 4, 8, 216

One stop underexposed 4, 8, 9

Opening up, of lens 4

P

Partial Metering 153–154

Perfect Focus and Exposure 151

Automatic Focus Point Selection 158–173

Camera metering 151–158

Manual Focus Point Selection (MFPS) 173–174

Personal Function 174

Picture elements, See Pixel

Picture Styles 42, 132, 250–251

Faithful 135, 136

Landscape 134

Monochrome 135, 136

Neutral 134, 135

Portrait 132, 133

Standard 132, 133

User Defined 136, 137

Pixel 14, 55

Portrait mode 102–103, 111

Power switch 65–66

Prime lens 45

Processing Parameters 132

Program AE 114

Protect 84–85

PTP 51

Pullen, Russ 277

Q

Quick Control Dial 27, 39, 46, 65, 66, 67–68, 72, 73, 80, 86

Quick start 17–21

R

RAW files 15, 16, 24, 27, 56, 114, 239, 241

RAW Image Adjustment 247–257

Dynamic Range 251–253

Picture Styles 250–251

Rear Button Focus, See AE Lock

Rebel XTi 39

Quick Control Dial 39

Rechargeable batteries 17

Reciprocity 10–13

and ISO 88

Resolution 14–16, 71

RGB Image Adjustment 257–263

Recipes 261–263

Ring Lite 224, 229–231

RIP software 71

Rock-solid technique 216

S

SanDisk Extreme III 52

“Saved Work” disc 29

Scarbrough, David 266

Second-Curtain Sync 218, 219

Secure Digital (SD) 19

Sensor Cleaning 90–93

Shade 75

Sharpness 132, 255, 257

Shirk, David 272

Shooting RAW 25–28, 32, 35, 248, 250

ShootSmarter.com 118

Shot-to-shot focus 160

Shutter/aperture combinations 88

Shutter Button 69–70

Shutter Curtain Sync 219

Shutter Priority,See Aperture Priority

Shutter speed 7–9, 119, 210

Fast 8, 88, 106, 108

Slow 8, 35, 108

Slave unit 219, 221, 223

Small jpeg 15, 16, 71

Speedlite 211, 213, 217, 218, 221–224, 231

Sport mode 107–108

Spot Metering 154–156

sRGB color space 83

vs. Adobe RGB 24–25

Stopping down, of lens 4, 6

Storage cards 16, 27

Studio strobes 10, 148, 219

Sub-electronic dilemma 161

Sunlight 10, 218, 227, 271

Super Spectra Coating 184, 199

Sutton, David 270

T

Thai, Kiet 271

Through The Lens (TTL) 151

Thumb Focus, See AE Lock button

Tichenor, Joseph 274

Tiff 262

Tokar, Scott 273

Tonal merger 210

Tone Curve Adjustment 109, 257, 259, 260

Toning Effect 254–255, 256

Tripods 108, 119, 195

TS-E 90 mm f2.8 Tilt/Shift 192, 193

Tungsten 36, 75, 76, 244

Tv Shutter Speed Priority AE 115

U

Ultimate Light Box System 213, 221

Ultrasonic Motor (USM) 116, 158, 183

Umbrella Stand Adapter 221

User Defined interface 136, 137

V

Vertical Grip Dial 67, 67, 170

W

White Balance 74–75, 244, 248

Auto White Balance (AWB) 74

Cloudy 75, 76

Custom White Balance (CWB) 75, 77

White Balance

Daylight 75

Flash 75, 77

Shade 75

Tungsten 75, 76

White Fluorescent 75, 76

White Balance Shift/Bracket 81–83

White Fluorescent 75, 76

Wireless File Transmitter 51

Wolf, Craig 267

Workflow 23–37

Color Space 24–25

Z

Zoom lens 45