Canon 30D - Manual (Page 4)

Page 4 of 35 © Ken Rockwell 2006
Picture Style: This is where you set the "look" of your images: saturation,
color, contrast, etc. I prefer the vivid color I get from Fuji's Velvia 50 film, so I
tweak the 30D to give color almost as vivid as I can get. The 30D has a much
wider range of saturation adjustment than most other cameras, so halfway up
on a 30D is the same as all the way up on a 20D, D80 or D200.
I leave everything at normal, and set the saturation to +2, +3, or, if I'm sitting
down, +4. +4 is pretty wild. Try them for yourself.
I explain how to set this later at Picture Styles.
FOCUS: I use AI Focus. This clever mode automatically selects either of the
two other focus modes. The other two focus modes are ONE SHOT, which
means the 30D locks and holds the focus for you to compose still subjects, or
AI Servo, which keeps the focus active to track moving subjects. I explain how
to set these on my Controls page.
METERING: Evaluative (the solid dot and circle in a rectangle icon). I never
use the other modes.
The other metering modes are: Center-Only (circle in rectangle, Canon calls
this "Partial Metering"), Spot (dot in rectangle) or Center-Biased, Full-Frame
Averaging (empty rectangle, Canon calls this "Center Weighted Averaging")
modes. These modes are leftovers from before Evaluative metering was
invented in 1985. I explain how to set these on my Controls page.