Of course, the first thing to do is to install the battery. At the bottom of the chamber is the battery door, which is also the card door. If you purchased your 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 right Canon battery. With the Canon logo on one side, it has an arrow helpfully pointing the way to attach the battery to the camera. The battery is designed to go only one way, so if you feel like you’re forcing the battery, it’s probably in the wrong direction.
The memory card slot is also here. And just like the battery socket, the card socket will only take 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: first, they are pretty sturdy cards, and second, they often provide you with some software to recover files if there is something wrong with the card. Finally they will 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 pictures on there and the card breaks or doesn’t work properly and the software won’t recover them and you have to send it back to Sandisk, all you’ll get is a new card. : will not recover your photos. Therefore, you must have a place to store your files, your images and your videos, such as an external hard drive or a computer.
To position 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 downwards so that dust and dirt cannot accidentally fall on it.
Now you can turn on the camera. There isn’t actually an on switch, just an off switch. At this point, it’s a good idea to move the Mode dial to M for Manual, because that gives you a chance to see everything that’s available to you in the menus. Access the menus by pressing the menu button on the back of the camera and navigate through them using the cross keys here or the rotary dial on the top of the Canon EOS 4000D. Confirm a selection by pressing the adjust 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. You do it using the cross keyboard. Now the other option you might want to look at is also in the settings menu 3 and it’s called language. There are a large number of languages you can choose from and again you use the cross keys to make your selection.
The next option is image size and obviously with a camera like this you want a very good image size and very good image quality because presumably that’s one of the reasons you bought the camera . So if you go to shooting menu 1 the top option is image quality and I would choose quarter circle and capital L because it represents the best image quality and best compression quality.
Sometimes when it is working, the LCD screen will turn off automatically. This helps you save battery life, but it can be quite annoying. To turn the camera back on, press the display button. To change this feature, go to the auto power off option, found in settings menu 1. Here you can extend it up to 15 minutes or even turn it off completely, 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 Shutter off card that should be set to off.
Right above that in the menu is the beep. The beep is the sound the camera makes when it focuses. That may seem very useful, but after about five minutes it’s pretty annoying, so I’d turn it off.
The other thing to do that is really important is to format the card. Go to setup menu 1. The third option down is to format card. If you’ve just put a new card in your camera, you’ll 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 also not a very good option to use casually because when you format the card you lose everything, even the images you think you have protected.
Finally, I would go to settings menu 3 and look at the copyright information here. I would enter my name. It’s a bit tricky, but I think it’s worth it because every picture or video you take will have your name attached to it as the copyright holder and probably most importantly, if your camera is ever stolen, you’ll be able to identify your camera. because it will have your name on it. Thieves rarely bother to go that far into camera settings, and that’s the basic setting for the Canon EOS 4000D or Rebel T100.