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

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’re pretty sturdy cards, and second, they often give you some software to recover files if there’s something wrong with the card. Finally they will guarantee you the card for life, which is really very useful. However, only the card is guaranteed, so if you have a lot of files or 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. : You 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 need to match the white square on the lens and camera, if it’s an EF-S lens, or the red dots, if it’s an EF lens. Then turn it clockwise. Whenever you change the lens, keep the camera facing down so that dust and dirt cannot accidentally fall.

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 setting 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 settings menu 3 and it’s called language. There are a plethora 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 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 go for the quarter circle and the capital L because it represents the best image quality and the best compression quality.

Sometimes when you are 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.

In order for you not to take pictures without the memory card in the camera, there is a setting in shooting menu 1 called shutter without card that needs to be set to off.

Right above that on 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 you need to do that is really important is to format the card. Go to settings menu 1. The third option down is format card. If you just put a new card in your camera, you’ll need to format it just to make sure the card and camera are formatted correctly 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 is also not a very good option to use casually because when you format the card you lose everything, even the images that 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 little 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 more importantly if the 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 settings for the Canon EOS 4000D or Rebel T100.