Your Canon EOS 90D has so many features that it tin be difficult to remember what each control does. To help you sort things out, this Crook Sail offers a handy reference to your camera's external controls and exposure modes. Print out this guide, tuck it in your camera bag, and go a head kickoff on taking neat photographs and movies!

Controls on Your Canon 90D

If you're not familiar with the 90D camera, hither is a quick guide to its buttons, dials, and other external controls. The lens shown here is the 18–135mm kit lens; other lenses may have unlike features. See the side by side section of the Crook Sheet for information virtually what the main buttons exercise.

controls on top of the Canon EOS 90D

controls on the back of the Canon EOS 90D

controls on the side of the Canon EOS 90D

Functions of Buttons and Other Controls

Information technology's slap-up to take a map to the buttons and controls on your photographic camera, but it'south not a lot of aid if you lot tin't remember which push button to press when (and why). So, hither's a quick recap of what you can do with each push. Annotation: This data concentrates on features available when you shoot in the P, Tv, Av, Yard, B, C1, and C2 exposure modes. A few features also work in other modes.

See the outset part of the Crook Canvass if you need aid locating a button.

This control . . . performs these functions.
Mode dial Sets the exposure mode, which determines how much command you have over picture settings. For the most control, choose P, Boob tube, Av, 1000, B, C1 , or C2. Press the Lock release push button to turn.
Ability switch This switch turns the camera on and off.
Shutter button Printing halfway to autofocus and meter; press fully to accept a photograph.
Master dial Rotate to change settings.
Alive View/Movie Shooting switch Printing to toggle Alive View on and off. When the camera is in Movie mode, press to starting time and stop recording.
Start/Stop push button Starts and stops Live View when the Alive View/Motion picture Shooting switch is set to Live View. Starts and stops movie recording when in Movie way.
AF Surface area Pick button Press to display the AF Expanse Option setting, which controls which autofocus point or zones the camera uses to fix focusing distance
AF Operation Choice button Press to change betwixt one-time or continuous autofocusing.
Metering mode button Press to change metering modes, which alter how the photographic camera evaluates the calorie-free in a scene.
ISO button Press to brandish a screen where you can arrange the ISO setting, which determines how sensitive the camera is to light.
LCD panel illumination button Turns on LCD console backlighting.
LCD console Displays camera setting information in an alternate form than the viewfinder or back LCD monitor.
Bill of fare button Press to display and hide photographic camera menus; rotate Principal dial to bike through menu pages.
Info button During playback, Alive View photography, and Movie shooting, changes the information display. During viewfinder photography, toggles between the normal information brandish and an electronic level.
AF-ON button Pressing this push initiates autofocus, but every bit if you were pressing the shutter push button halfway.
AE Lock/Fe Lock/Alphabetize/Reduce button During shooting, printing to lock autoexposure (AE) or to lock flash exposure (FE). During playback, printing to bicycle from single-image view to index (thumbnails) view. If the displayed image or live preview is magnified, press to reduce the magnification level.
AF Point Choice/Magnify button During viewfinder photography, press to display the AF Expanse Selection screen. (You still must use the AF Area Selection button to change the setting.) In Playback mode, press to magnify the image on the monitor. In Live View or Movie mode, yous too can magnify the display under certain circumstances.
Joystick A handy multi-controller. Apply it to navigate menus options, settings, and push button in to make choices.
Q push button Activates Quick Control mode, which provides fast admission to shooting and playback settings. Press again to go out Quick Control manner.
Playback push button Toggles picture playback on and off.
Quick Control punch Use the Quick Control dial do quickly curl through many unlike options and settings. It's very handy and makes for a swell timesaver.
Large multi-controller with Set up button Highlight options from menus and other screens, and so printing Set to select that option.
Erase button While reviewing pictures, printing to erase currently displayed or selected photos.
Multi Function lock switch Locks sure controls so that you don't accidentally change photographic camera settings when shooting.
Flash button Printing to raise congenital-in flash in all modes. When the flash is upward, printing again to admission flash-related menu settings.
Depth-of-field preview button Press to temporarily prepare the aperture to the selected f-stop so that you lot tin see an approximation of depth of field in the viewfinder.
Lens-release button Press to undo the lens from the camera's lens mount then that you can remove the lens.

Exposure Modes on the EOS 90D

Your choice of exposure mode determines how much command you have over picture show settings, including options that affect exposure, color, and autofocusing features. Set the exposure mode via the Manner dial shown here. For the most control, switch to P, Tv, Av. M, B, C1, or C2 fashion. Canon refers to those modes as Creative Zone modes; the others are Basic Zone modes.

Canon EOS 90D exposure modes

Exposure Mode Description
Scene Intelligent Auto Completely automatic photography; the camera analyzes the scene and tries to cull settings that produce the best results.
Special Scenes Automatic modes for capturing specific types of scenes. Ready the dial to the SCN position to admission these scene types, which include classics like Portrait, Landscape, Close-up, and Sports, plus several more.
Creative Filter Enables y'all to add together special effects to pictures and movies equally yous shoot them.
P (Programmed Autoexposure) Camera selects both the f-finish and shutter speed to ensure proper exposure, merely you lot can choose from multiple combinations of the two settings.
Tv (Shutter-priority Autoexposure) You set shutter speed, and the camera selects the f-end that will produce a good exposure.
Av (Aperture-priority Autoexposure) You select f-stop, and the camera selects the shutter speed that will produce a skillful exposure.
Yard (Transmission Exposure) You control both the shutter speed and f-cease.
B (Bulb Exposure) Bulb mode is a variation of Manual fashion. You lot still control aperture and shutter speed, merely instead of setting a specific shutter speed, you hold the shutter button down for the length of time you lot want the image to be exposed.
C1 and C2 (Custom Exposure Modes) Relieve camera settings into these two modes so that you tin instantly recall them.

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Robert Correll has more than two decades of feel in writing and photography. He is the author of all previous editions of Digital SLR Photography All-in-One For Dummies and has written several other books specific to private DSLR photographic camera models. Julie Adair King is a veteran photography professional person and teacher with more than than lx books to her credit. She has written all editions of Digital Photography For Dummies too as xl guides to DSLR camera models.

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