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Checking out the C100 menu options

Checking out the C100 menu options

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Checking out the C100 menu options

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Now, I went over some of the basic overviews of the Canon C100 already. So, what I want to do now is just take a look at the menu and some of the options that we have there. So, we'll know how to set this thing up the first time we use it. So, just going down the menu, light metering, really simple. The light meter just refers to this little meter that you see right there at the center bottom of the screen if I go ahead and lower it or raise it up. You can see exactly what that meter's doing. It' telling us that our ideal exposure's right about there. So, a couple of different modes for that. You got back lit if your subject was lit from behind. Say the sky, or the sun or something was behind them. Spotlight, same thing. If you had a subject on the stage, otherwise we want that at standard. AE Shift is your auto exposure shift. Right here, on the side of the camera, you have a push auto iris, so if I push that, I'm going to go ahead and darken the frame, if I push that, you'll see…

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