Best setup or configuration for Canon EOS 4000D or Rebel T100 DSLR camera

Of course, the first thing to do is install the battery. At the bottom of the chamber is the battery door, which is also the door for the card. If you purchased the camera from a registered dealer, you will have received a genuine Canon battery. There are other third-party cameras available, but it’s always best to use the proper Canon battery. With the Canon logo on one side, it has an arrow indicating the way to put the battery in the camera. The battery is designed to work only one way, so if you feel like you’re straining the battery, it’s probably the wrong way.

The memory card slot is here too. And just like the battery socket, the card socket will only accept the card one way. I tend to use Sandisk memory cards and many professional photographers I know tend to think highly of Sandisk. There are three reasons for that, firstly they are quite sturdy cards and secondly they often provide you with some software to recover files if there is something wrong with the card. They will finally guarantee the card for life, which is really very useful. However, only the card is guaranteed, so if you have a lot of files or a lot of images and the card breaks or doesn’t work properly and the software won’t recover them for you and you have to send it to Sandisk, all you get is a new card, you will not get your photos back. Therefore, you must have a place to store your files, your pictures, and your videos, such as an external hard drive or a computer.

To attach the lens, you must match the white square on the lens and the camera, if it is an EF-S lens, or the red dots, if it is an EF lens. Then turn it clockwise. Whenever you change the lens, keep the camera facing downward so that dust and dirt do not fall off by accident.

Now you can turn on the camera. Actually, there is no power switch, just a kill switch. At this point, it is a good idea to move the mode dial to M for Manual, because that gives you the opportunity to see everything that is available to you in the menus. You can access the menus by pressing the menu button on the back of the camera and navigate around them using the cross keys here, or the rotary dial on the top of the Canon EOS 4000D. Confirm a selection by pressing the set button in the middle of the cross keys.

The first option that appears when you turn on the camera is the option to change the time and date. To do this, use the cross keyboard. Now the other option you might want to see is also in setup menu 3 and it’s called language. There are multiple languages ​​you can choose from and again use the cross keys to make your selection.

The next option is image size and obviously with such a camera you want a very good image size and very good image quality because presumably that is one of the reasons you bought the camera. So if you go to shooting menu 1 the top option is image quality and you would choose the quarter circle and the capital L because that represents the best image quality and the best compression quality.

Sometimes when you are working, the LCD screen turns off automatically. This helps you save battery life, but can be quite annoying. To turn the camera back on, press the display button. To change this feature, go to the automatic shutdown option, found in the settings menu 1. Here you can extend it up to 15 minutes or even disable it entirely, but I suggest extending it to one minute.

To keep you from taking pictures without the memory card in the camera, there is a setting in the shooting menu 1 called the cardless release trigger that must be set to disable.

Right on top of that on the menu is the beep. Beep is the sound the camera makes when it focuses. That may seem very useful, but after about five minutes it’s actually quite annoying, so I turn it off.

The other thing you need to do that is really important is to format the card. Go to setup menu 1. The third option down is format card. If you just put a new card in your camera, you will need to format it just to make sure the card and camera are properly formatted to work together. But you may also want to format the card after you have downloaded all your images or if there is a read / write problem with the card. But it’s not a very good option to use casually either because when you format the card, you lose everything on it, even the images you think you have protected.

Finally, I would go to settings menu 3 and see the copyright information here. I would enter my name. It’s a bit clunky but I think it’s worth it because every photo or video you record will have your name attached as the copyright holder and probably more importantly if the camera is stolen at some point you will be able to identify your camera because it will have your name on he. Thieves rarely bother to go that far in camera settings, and those are the basic settings for the Canon EOS 4000D or Rebel T100.