Canon EOS-1D Mark IV Pocket Guide

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV manual cover
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Year 2009
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English en
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CT1-1035-000 CANON INC. 2009PRINTED IN JAPAN English Edition

This quick guide explains basic function settings and how to shoot and playback images. You can take this guide with you for shooting. For detailed instructions, refer to the EOS-1D Mark IV Instruction Manual.

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Quick Start Guide

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Insert the battery. Take off the cap and insert a fully-charged battery.

Attach the lens. Align it with the red dot.

Set the lens focus mode switch to <f>.

Insert a card.* The left slot is for a CF card, and the right slot is for an SD card.

Set the camera to the default settings. On the menu screen under the [7] tab, select [Clear all camera settings]. The Program AE mode will

take effect.

Focus the subject. Aim the Area AF frame over the subject. Press the shutter button halfway, and the camera will focus the subject.

Take the picture. Press the shutter button completely to take the picture.

View the image. The captured image will be displayed for about 2 sec. on the LCD monitor.

Set the power switch to <1>.

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9 * Shooting will be possible with either a CF card or an SD card in the camera.

Battery Life Temperature At 23C / 73F At 0C / 32F Possible shots Approx. 1500 shots Approx. 1200 shots

Magnify

Select image

Shooting information

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Index

Erase

Playback x

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Image Playback

button

LCD monitor

<6> Main Dial

<5> Quick Control Dial

<0> button

1. Press the button to display the menu. 2. Turn the <6> dial to select the tab, then turn the <5> dial

to select the desired item. 3. Press <0> to display the setting. 4. After setting the item, press <0>.

Menus Image Quality Settings Setting Procedure

Menu Settings 1 Shooting 1 2 Shooting 2

3 Playback 1 4 Playback 2

5 Set-up 1 6 Set-up 2

7 Set-up 3 8 Custom Functions

With [5 Format], you can format the memory card. With [7 Clear all camera settings], you can reset the camera

settings to the default.

Select [2 Image size]. Turn the <6> or <5> dial to select the image size and press <0>.

Image Size

Image size Pixels

Possible shots

RAW: Turn the <6> dial to select the quality.

JPEG: Turn the <5> dial to select the quality.

Press the

button. Turn the <6> or <5> dial to

select the Picture Style.

A Picture Style

For (Neutral) and (Faithful), see the cameras instruction manual.

Style P Standard Q Portrait R Landscape V Monochrome

Description Vivid colors and sharp images. Nice skin tones and slightly sharp images. Vivid blue skies and greenery and very sharp images. Black-and-white images.

Z: ISO Speed Press the button, then

turn the <6/5> dial. ISO 100 to 12800 can be set in

1/3-stop increments. When A is selected, the ISO

speed is set automatically. With C.Fn I -3, the settable range

can be expanded from ISO 50 (L) to ISO 102400 (H3).

Press the button (once or twice), then turn the <5> dial.

White Balance

Icon Mode Color Temperature (Approx. K: Kelvin) Q Auto 3000 - 7000K W Daylight 5200K E Shade 7000K R Cloudy, twilight, sunset 6000K Y Tungsten light 3200K U White fluorescent light 4000K I Flash 6000K O Custom 2000 - 10000K P Color temperature 2500 - 10000K

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E: AF Mode

Shooting Mode Press the button, then

turn the <6/5> dial. Turn the <6> or <5> dial to

set the exposure, then shoot.

Set the lens focus mode switch to .

Press the button, then turn the <6> dial.

X (One-Shot AF): For still subjects

Z(AI Servo AF): For moving subjects

Instead of pressing the shutter button halfway, AF is also possible by pressing the

button.

Shooting Operation

Shooting Mode 6 Dial 5 Dial d (Program AE) Program shift Exposure compensation s (Shutter-priority AE) Shutter speed setting Exposure compensation f (Aperture-priority AE) Aperture setting Exposure compensation a (Manual exposure) Shutter speed setting Aperture setting

q Metering Mode

S AF Point Press the button and use

the <9> or turn the <6> and <5> dials.

By pressing <9> straight down, you can toggle between the center AF point z automatic selection.

If all the peripheral AF points light up, automatic AF point selection will take effect.

Press the button, then turn the <6> dial. qEvaluative metering:

Standard metering mode wPartial metering: Approx. 13.5% at center rSpot metering: Approx. 3.8% at center eCenter-weighted average metering:

Metering weighted at the center and averaged for the entire scene

Multiple spot metering is possible with the button.

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R: Drive Mode Press the button,

then turn the <5> dial. u: Single shooting o: High-speed continuous shooting (Approx. 10 shots per sec.) p: Low-speed continuous shooting (Approx. 3 shots per sec.) k: 10-sec. self-timer l: 2-sec. self-timer 6: Silent single shooting

Set the power switch to . Focus the subject, then check the

exposure setting. Turn the <5> dial to set the

exposure compensation amount. You can set the amount up to 3

stops in 1/3-stop increments.

To cancel exposure compensation, set the exposure level indicator to the standard exposure index (
or ).

You can also set it with the button and <6/5> dial. For light-colored subjects, set it to the plus side. For

dark-colored subjects, set it to the minus side.

Standard exposure index Exposure level

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Increased exposure

Decreased exposure

w AE Lock

Y Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) Press the button and

button simultaneously, then turn the <6/5> dial to set the AEB amount.

It can be set up to 3 stops in 1/3-stop increments.

The bracketed shots will be taken in the current drive mode in the 1, 2, 3 sequence.

After the three bracketed shots are taken, AEB will not be canceled. To cancel AEB, set the AEB increment to 0.0.

Focus the subject. Press the
button to lock the

current exposure setting. The exposure level indicator will

show the AE lock exposure level and the current exposure level in real-time.

Recompose and take the picture.

AEB increment

AE lock

2. Decreased exposure

3. Increased exposure 1. Standard exposure

Select [6 Live View/Movie func. set.].

Select [LV z/k set.] and set [Stills].

Press the shutter button halfway to turn off the menu screen.

Press <0> to display the Live View image on the LCD monitor.

Press the button and turn the <6/5> dial to select the shooting mode.

Press the shutter button halfway. After focus is achieved, press the shutter button completely.

Press <0> to end the Live View shooting.

z Live View Shooting

Battery Life with Live View Shooting Temperature At 23C / 73F At 0C / 32F Possible shots Approx. 270 shots Approx. 230 shots

Select [LV z/k set.] and set [Movies].

Select [Movie rec. size] and set the size.

Press the shutter button halfway to turn off the menu screen.

Pressing <0> will display the movie image on the LCD monitor.

Press the button and turn the <6/5> dial to select a shooting mode other than
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Press the shutter button halfway to focus.

Press the button to start shooting a movie. During movie shooting, the o mark will appear on the upper right.

To stop shooting the movie, press the button again.

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If you set the shooting mode to
, you can set manual exposure for movie shooting.

You can take a still photo during movie shooting by pressing the shutter button completely.

Autoexposure Shooting

Recording movie

Frame rate

Custom Functions C.Fn I: Exposure 1 Exposure level

increments 2 ISO speed setting

increments 3 Set ISO speed range 4 Bracketing auto cancel 5 Bracketing sequence 6 Number of bracketed

shots 7 Spot metering link to AF

point 8 Safety shift 9 Select usable shooting

modes 10 Select usable metering

modes 11 Exposure mode in

manual exposure 12 Set shutter speed range 13 Set aperture value range 14 Apply shooting/metering

mode 15 Flash sync. speed in Av

mode 16 AE Microadjustment

17 FE Microadjustment

C.Fn II: Image/Flash exposure/Display

1 Long exposure noise reduction

2 High ISO speed noise reduction

3 Highlight tone priority 4 Auto Lighting Optimizer 5 E-TTL II flash metering 6 Shutter curtain sync. 7 Flash firing 8 Viewfinder info. during

exposure 9 LCD panel illumination

during Bulb 10 INFO. button when

shooting

C.Fn III: Auto focus/Drive 1 USM lens electronic MF 2 AI Servo tracking

sensitivity 3 AI Servo 1st/2nd image

priority 4 AI Servo AF tracking

method

5 Lens drive when AF impossible

6 Lens AF stop button function

7 AF Microadjustment 8 AF expansion with

selected point 9 Multi-controller while

metering 10 Selectable AF point 11 Switch to registered AF

point 12 AF point auto selection 13 AF point display during

focus 14 AF point brightness 15 AF-assist beam firing 16 Orientation linked AF

point 17 Mirror lockup 18 Continuous shooting

speed 19 Limit continuous shot

count

C.Fn IV: Operation/Others 1 Shutter button/AF-ON

button 2 AF-ON/AE lock button

switch 3 Quick Control Dial in

metering 4 Assign SET button 5 Tv/Av setting for Manual

exposure 6 Dial direction during Tv/Av 7 Av setting without lens 8 WB + media/image size

setting 9 H button function 10 Button function when 5

11 Start movie shooting 12 Focusing Screen 13 Timer length for timer 14 Shortened release time